Clumber chase; or, Love's riddle solved by a royal sphinxA tale of the restoration . our most charming-daughter so deeply that yours would be consider-ably lightened. I thank her with all my heart, and you too,dear Dr. Fairbrace, for all your kindness, butalas!— Yes, I know, said the rector, rising, onlythe great Physician above and His grand panacea,time, can be of any avail. I will not detain youfrom Mistress Dorothy, to whom I beg my re-spects. Oh! send her something better, dear 1670. Clumber Chase. 271 With all my heart. God bless you both/said he, shaking her hand, and hurr
Clumber chase; or, Love's riddle solved by a royal sphinxA tale of the restoration . our most charming-daughter so deeply that yours would be consider-ably lightened. I thank her with all my heart, and you too,dear Dr. Fairbrace, for all your kindness, butalas!— Yes, I know, said the rector, rising, onlythe great Physician above and His grand panacea,time, can be of any avail. I will not detain youfrom Mistress Dorothy, to whom I beg my re-spects. Oh! send her something better, dear 1670. Clumber Chase. 271 With all my heart. God bless you both/said he, shaking her hand, and hurrying out ofthe room, not liking to let her see that shehad not all the tears to herself. When Mrs Neville returned to Dorothy shefound that she had fallen into a quiet, happysleep. Oh! generous, gentle, blessed sleep,friend of the friendless, good Samaritan of grief,how could we bear lifes many bitter, wakinghours, but for thee ? 272 Clumber Chase. 1670. CHAPTER XIII, Des remords ! detrompez-vous, il y a des coeurs si ba?, sivides, si steriles, quun remordmeme ne peut y ND is it because you are virtuous, thatthere shall be no more cakes andale? And is it because there is so muchreal, hard, stubborn misery in the world, thereshould be no ^^ mitigated woe department outof those Fashionable Emporiums, wheregraduated grief is sold at so much a yard—or, atleast, its outward and visible sign ? Factforbid! and as a Q. E. D. of this problem, wewill just look in upon that bereaved father. SirAllen Broderick, and see with what a differencehe wore his rue to those poor silly women onthe Bird-cage Walk, who took it all au grandserieux. But Sir Allen, as we have before had occasionto remark, was a clever man of the world, and,moreover, an intensely worldly man—for theytwain are by no means synonymous; and whereordinary mortals under those dispensations ofProvidence, which men call crosses, losses, trials, 1670. Clumber Chase, 273 and afflictions, weep, grieve and pray, Sir Al
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