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Brotherly Love.
future she would not be at the pains of concealing tho aversion which hs inspired in her mind .
CHAPTER V . —V ARIED PASSIONS . Meanwhile , the object of this unmerited suspicion was enduring a stats of mental torture , produced by his fancied discovery of the real motive which had induced Ida to treat Mm with seeming affection . Life has its varied bitter draughts—the hopes their many withering
disappointments—the heart many searing pangs to be graven on its core , but far above them all , is the first discovery of perfidy in the being we have trusted . To find deception , where Ave fancied sincerity , to learn , that what we fondly deemed holiness and purity , is sordid and selfish ; and that the bosom on which we reposed in confidence and security , as a haven when the storm tossed irits miht safelrestis but a treacherous
shalsp g y , low , is one of those fearful lessons , which fling in the shade , all the other experiences , wMch the dissipated illusions of life , record in the volume of man ' s sufferings . Had the world smiled on Simon , the revelation of what he regarded as
truth , could not be received without anguish and sorrow . But he , poor fellow ! had to endure more from the discovery than others ; for he was placed under peculiar circumstances . He considered himself excluded from all sympathy from his kind , a creature , upon whose features were traced that deformity , which was destined to repel all human affection , and almost to banish him from the society of his species . There - grew
one only flower in existence for him , and which alone preserved his rugged heart from a sterility of human affections ; it was the hope , that the beautiful and amiable girl he loved , reciprocated Ms passion . That idol of his feelings , shattered , he knew not whither to turn ; there was no other object , around which the tendrils of Ms heart could entwine . With Ida ' s love , all sense of his deformity was deadened . The world might mouth
at and mock Mm , but its derison could only leave a transient and feeble impression , to be speedily effaced by the look of affection , and the accents of tenderness , which greeted him from his beloved . When he left Mrs . St . Claire ' s , he directed his step , towards the neighbouring- hills , where he might give vent to his feelings in solitude , with no human eye to witness Ms anguish , or human ear to hear the stifling sighs , which almost suffocated him . There at least , that volcano , his heart ,
might outpour itself without anything to check its eruption . It may be said , that his suspicion of Ida , was too hastily formed ; that he should have waited for some confirmation of Ms doubts . But wheat did love ever study dialectics , or seek for sufficient data , upon which to base its deductions . He thought only of Ida's beauty in contrast with Ms own deformity , and then of her mother ' s words . He thought he saw it all clearly ; the veil had dropped from his eyes '; the young girl loved him for the wealth he was reputed to possess , which enabled her to sup-
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Brotherly Love.
future she would not be at the pains of concealing tho aversion which hs inspired in her mind .
CHAPTER V . —V ARIED PASSIONS . Meanwhile , the object of this unmerited suspicion was enduring a stats of mental torture , produced by his fancied discovery of the real motive which had induced Ida to treat Mm with seeming affection . Life has its varied bitter draughts—the hopes their many withering
disappointments—the heart many searing pangs to be graven on its core , but far above them all , is the first discovery of perfidy in the being we have trusted . To find deception , where Ave fancied sincerity , to learn , that what we fondly deemed holiness and purity , is sordid and selfish ; and that the bosom on which we reposed in confidence and security , as a haven when the storm tossed irits miht safelrestis but a treacherous
shalsp g y , low , is one of those fearful lessons , which fling in the shade , all the other experiences , wMch the dissipated illusions of life , record in the volume of man ' s sufferings . Had the world smiled on Simon , the revelation of what he regarded as
truth , could not be received without anguish and sorrow . But he , poor fellow ! had to endure more from the discovery than others ; for he was placed under peculiar circumstances . He considered himself excluded from all sympathy from his kind , a creature , upon whose features were traced that deformity , which was destined to repel all human affection , and almost to banish him from the society of his species . There - grew
one only flower in existence for him , and which alone preserved his rugged heart from a sterility of human affections ; it was the hope , that the beautiful and amiable girl he loved , reciprocated Ms passion . That idol of his feelings , shattered , he knew not whither to turn ; there was no other object , around which the tendrils of Ms heart could entwine . With Ida ' s love , all sense of his deformity was deadened . The world might mouth
at and mock Mm , but its derison could only leave a transient and feeble impression , to be speedily effaced by the look of affection , and the accents of tenderness , which greeted him from his beloved . When he left Mrs . St . Claire ' s , he directed his step , towards the neighbouring- hills , where he might give vent to his feelings in solitude , with no human eye to witness Ms anguish , or human ear to hear the stifling sighs , which almost suffocated him . There at least , that volcano , his heart ,
might outpour itself without anything to check its eruption . It may be said , that his suspicion of Ida , was too hastily formed ; that he should have waited for some confirmation of Ms doubts . But wheat did love ever study dialectics , or seek for sufficient data , upon which to base its deductions . He thought only of Ida's beauty in contrast with Ms own deformity , and then of her mother ' s words . He thought he saw it all clearly ; the veil had dropped from his eyes '; the young girl loved him for the wealth he was reputed to possess , which enabled her to sup-