Part 57 (1/2)

Fatal insensibility to the warning voice of experience!

Incomprehensible blindness!

The poor bishop was unable to resist his destiny

I had a foreboding of the ht result from a stomach at once so debilitated and so overloaded I wished to have spoken: I was tempted to exclaim--'Rash man, beware!' I could not keep th I suddenly ree appearance, that came over his face; and, almost at the same instant, he dropped from his chair in an apoplectic fit

The description of his foa mouth, distorted features, dead eyes, the whites of which only were to be seen, his writhings, his--

No! Ibut pain; est that poor oppressed nature les, to empty and relieve herself, there will perhaps be more than sufficient of the scene of which I was a spectator conjured up in the iination

The bishop had been a th; and the paroxysh extreme, did not end in death Medical assistance was obtained, and he was borne away as soon as the crisis was over: but the festivity for which the company had met was disturbed Many of the lest they had only been present at horrors that, soon or late, were to light upon themselves They departed appalled by the scene they had witnessed, and haunted by i, black, and distracted kind

Froh he had been less guilty of gor than many of his associates: and, for my own part, this incident left an ih life

CHAPTER X

_A few reflections: A word concerning friends, and the duties of friendshi+p: News of Thornby; or the equity of the dying: The decease of my mother: A curious letter on the obsequies of the dead: The real and the ideal being unlike to each other_

How different is the same man, at different periods of his existence!

How very unlike were the boell bred Earl of Idford, and the asth and his Jack; whoe!

The president too at that time was, quite as much in form as in office, one of the pillars of the university And the bishop! What a lae had a short period produced!

Happy would it be for e they must; and that, if they will but be sufficiently attentive to circue for the better

Ti on; and I had variety of occupation Neither my studies, my fashi+onable acquaintances, nor those wholected Mr Evelyn continued for so to his anatomical and chymical studies Wilmot had completed his coer; and was to be the second new piece brought forward Turl, with equal perseverance, was pursuing his own plans: and, though I heard nothing more from Olivia, my heart was at ease I knew the motives on which she acted; and had her assurance that, if I should be again defamed, I should now be heard in et honest Clarke; nor was the kind-hearted Mary neglected The good carpenter had sent for his wife and family up to town; and Mary was happy in the friendly attentions of Miss Wilmot, and in the orderly conduct and quick improvement of her son

One of my pleasures, and duties as I conceived it to be, was to introduce Turl and Wilht afford both parties gratification There ispeople of rank and fashi+on: but there is likewise so; and, where these qualities exist in any eree, the friends I have named could not but be welcome

It is the interest of men of all orders to converse with each other, to listen to their mutual pretensions with patience, to be slow to condemn, and to be liberal in the construction of what they at first suppose to be dangerous novelty

Turl was peculiarly fitted to promote these principles: and Wilination finely stored, was possessed, as the reader may remember, of musical talents; and those of no inferior order Days and weeks passed not unpleasantly away: for hope and Olivia were ever present to ination, and of the ills which fortune had in reserve I was little aware

While business and pleasure thus appeared to proe that an advertiseh Trevor, the grandson of the reverendrector of , were alive, by application at a place there nae