Part 41 (2/2)

CHAPTER XII

_Meditations on what had passed: The condolence of Clarke: Arrival at London: The ements_

It ht were not easily driven fro, the care ere obliged to take, and the gloo me sufficiently marked to attract the notice of hts, and er diverted by other objects, the reveries into which I fell, the interjections that broke from me, the hasty and interrupted manner in which I ate and drank, the expressions of extreme joy which altered my countenance at one moment, and the solemn seriousness which it assumed the next, with my eyes fixed, while the tears rolled down itated poor Clarke that he exclaimed--'For God's sake, Mr Trevor, what is the matter with you?'

My silence, for I was unable to speak, did but increase his alarm--'Are you taken ill? What has befallen you? Won't you open your ood, I hope you don't think I should be backward? Are you unhappy?'

'No, no'

'I a uncoh it may not be fit perhaps that I should hear what And I don't want to be a busy body; though I must say I should be ht That's all I have no other curiosity'

'All is not right: but yet I hope it will be I know not by what means It seems indeed impossible! And perhaps it is; and yet I hope!

I hope! I hope!'

'Well, well: I alad of that We should all hope We are bid to hope God help us if we did not Perhaps I can't give you any help?

I suppose that is beyond me I am sorry for it But what can a poor carpenter do, in the way of befriending a gentleman?'

'A poor carpenter can have a kind heart; and I do not knohether that is not theon earth! Did you ever hear ht-headed, I heard the name many a time and often And the nurse said you raved of nobody else But we could none of us find out who she was Though, I h wished to ask: but that I did not think it beca'

'That is the lady you have been in coht It is she whom you have helped me to save I was sufficiently indebted to you before: but what am I then at present?'

'Well, that to be sure is accidental enough! I could not have thought it! How oddly things do fall out! But I alad of it with all my heart!'

'I could not see h I looked with all the eyes I had: but I thought so creature as I had ever beheld since the hour I was born; which the ht tosoul so sweet-spoken So that I ely

'I always said to entlewoue's end so often, while you were down in the fever; and I aain so unexpectedly: though I can see no good reason, now you have found her, why you should be in such a hurry to get away'

The unaffected participation of Clarke in all s impelled him to put, and the fidelity of his nature, as well as the iave me to disburthen my mind, were all of them inducements to speak; and I informed him of many of those particulars which have already been recited

The more intimately he became acquainted with my history, the more powerfully he seemed imbued with my hopes and fears; and the better satisfied I ith the confidence I had reposed in his and phraseology at the injustice which he as well as I supposed had been done me, the depression of his countenance when I dwelt on the despair and wretchedness which the al Olivia inspired, and the animation hich he seemed as it were to set his shoulders to the wheel, when ave me confidence in my oers and the strenuous exertions on which I was resolved

The conversation continued long after we retired to rest; so that our sleep was short: for ere up again very early, before it was light, and continued our journey to London; where we arrived a little after nine in theof Miss Wilmot; whom I found where I had left her, and as truly rejoiced to see me Clarke had never been in London: I therefore took hiave a proper account of hiether, while Mary waited; whose features as well as her words sufficiently testified the unexpected pleasure of the , and who artlessly related the apprehensions of herself andfro Wilhted to learn that Wilmot, who, had been awakened by Turl to a more just sense of huour and elasticity of his talents

His sister told ed in a periodical publication; and had beside composed a considerable part of a coreatest hopes

The reader scarcely need be told that this intelligence gave hty matters in my ownconfidence and alacrity

Yes, said I, exultingly, genius may safely encounter and dare difficulties Let it but confide in itself and it will conquer the Wilination to paint the welcoave each other