Trials, Vol. 2 of 2: A Tale (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Not that Matilda was a deserted wife, in the com. Mon acceptation of the term. Charles was not so passionately in love with her as he had been but he was still as strongly attached to her, as it was in his nature to be to any thing he had called his own for two years. But she discovered, when too late, that she had joined her fate with one, of a character, which, of all others (not disgraced by any flagrant vice) is that most calculated to give pain to those connected with it. An austere, or a violent, or a passionate temper, may be accessible, and very com mouly is, on the side of sensibility and virtue but nothing good is within the reach of an unthinking mind. The spirits that would always be gay, always be plunged in a vortex of dissipation, in a world where, on every side, objects for reflection solicit our attention, and seem to intreat our considera tion, present the most hopeless of materials for the reformist to work upon.

I see that there is no hope of him said Ma tilda sorrowfully, one day, after they had just re.

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