Sublime

slatternly

his complexion, and his memory!—made

Surrounded by the rosy light, and standing high upon the deck, apart together, she clinging to him, and he holding her, they solemnly passed away. The night had fallen on the Kentish hills when we were rowed ashore—and fallen darkly upon me.

Gold, for the instant, lost its lustre in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase.

That, perhaps, it was a little unjust, that all the great offices in this great office should be magnificent sinecures, while the unfortunate working-clerks in the cold dark room upstairs were the worst rewarded, and the least considered men, doing important services, in London.

“As you have done it unto one of the least of these, you have done it unto me”,-

My reflections at these times were always associated with the figure I was to make in life, and the distinguished things I was to do.