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Father And Son.
of the most brilliant promise ; still , you must remember that these trials , bitter as they may have been , occurred many years ago ; that he has survived the HOAV ; and that time is a great magician . I have not studied human nature closely and carefully throughout a long life without discovering that the heart requires aliment to the full as much as the body . It is
only when it feeds upon itself that it is independent of extraneous support . Mr . is still in the prime of life ; rich , Avell-looking , and Avell-born . Had he only been called upon to struggle against misfortune over which he had no control , and in whose advent or progress he had had no share , his human nature would ere this have asserted itself , and he Avould have found
consolation and comfort in new ties . These are not the days of the paladins , Avhen men vowed aAvay their hearts for a lifetime , and kept the pledge ; and , trust me , it is better as it is under
such circumstances , that the heart should expand a second time . With him , however , it is plain that it Avill never do so , for the seeds of happiness have perished in a soil too dank and ungenial for any after-groAvth . I see that you are ruffled by my assertion ; you cannot realize such a fact ; so be it for the moment . I leave it to time to justify me . '
" And she loas justified , " said the old lady sadly ; "for at length the hour of confidence , full and unlimited , arrived . He is in his grave noAV , and I may tell the tale Avithout indiscretion . It is a lesson , and a stern one , alike to parents and to children ; and may , in some moment of temptation and selfishness , prove more efficacious than a score of homilies . Listentherefore . "
, But I Avill now tell the story in my own Avay , as it fastened itself upon my memory ; and by bestowing fictitious names upon its personages , render still more impossible the identification of the several actors in the simple but striking little drama Avhich she related .
Mr . Sydney Leicester Avas an only son , Avhose mother sur-A'ived his birth but a few months , during which time she seldom permitted him to be out of her sight ; and daily and hourly did she entreat of her devoted and agonised husband that he would love the beautiful infant for her sake as Avell as for his OAvn ; shield him from all sorroAV , guard him from all suffering , and
vender his life one long dream of happiness and enjoyment . " Give him no second mother , " she said earnestly ; " for none could love him as I have loved him : promise me this . Let me not be forgotten in my grave by my husband and my child . Talk to him of me often—very often . Be to him all that I Avould have been could I have lived to Avatch over him , and to pluck aivay the thorns from his path . You have Avealth ; let it
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Father And Son.
of the most brilliant promise ; still , you must remember that these trials , bitter as they may have been , occurred many years ago ; that he has survived the HOAV ; and that time is a great magician . I have not studied human nature closely and carefully throughout a long life without discovering that the heart requires aliment to the full as much as the body . It is
only when it feeds upon itself that it is independent of extraneous support . Mr . is still in the prime of life ; rich , Avell-looking , and Avell-born . Had he only been called upon to struggle against misfortune over which he had no control , and in whose advent or progress he had had no share , his human nature would ere this have asserted itself , and he Avould have found
consolation and comfort in new ties . These are not the days of the paladins , Avhen men vowed aAvay their hearts for a lifetime , and kept the pledge ; and , trust me , it is better as it is under
such circumstances , that the heart should expand a second time . With him , however , it is plain that it Avill never do so , for the seeds of happiness have perished in a soil too dank and ungenial for any after-groAvth . I see that you are ruffled by my assertion ; you cannot realize such a fact ; so be it for the moment . I leave it to time to justify me . '
" And she loas justified , " said the old lady sadly ; "for at length the hour of confidence , full and unlimited , arrived . He is in his grave noAV , and I may tell the tale Avithout indiscretion . It is a lesson , and a stern one , alike to parents and to children ; and may , in some moment of temptation and selfishness , prove more efficacious than a score of homilies . Listentherefore . "
, But I Avill now tell the story in my own Avay , as it fastened itself upon my memory ; and by bestowing fictitious names upon its personages , render still more impossible the identification of the several actors in the simple but striking little drama Avhich she related .
Mr . Sydney Leicester Avas an only son , Avhose mother sur-A'ived his birth but a few months , during which time she seldom permitted him to be out of her sight ; and daily and hourly did she entreat of her devoted and agonised husband that he would love the beautiful infant for her sake as Avell as for his OAvn ; shield him from all sorroAV , guard him from all suffering , and
vender his life one long dream of happiness and enjoyment . " Give him no second mother , " she said earnestly ; " for none could love him as I have loved him : promise me this . Let me not be forgotten in my grave by my husband and my child . Talk to him of me often—very often . Be to him all that I Avould have been could I have lived to Avatch over him , and to pluck aivay the thorns from his path . You have Avealth ; let it