. Lewis Arundel; or, The railroad of life . played over the expressive features of her he loved, untilreading in her tender glances the secret her lips refused tospeak, happiness lent him strength, and springing to her side,he drew her unresistingly towards him, and reproved the corallips for their silence, by sealing his forgiveness upon them with aloving kiss. And as Annie, albeit there is no reason to doubtthat she was an exceedingly moral and well-conducted younglady, did not appear to discern any great impropriety in this act,but on the contrary, disengaged herself fi-om his embrace gentl
. Lewis Arundel; or, The railroad of life . played over the expressive features of her he loved, untilreading in her tender glances the secret her lips refused tospeak, happiness lent him strength, and springing to her side,he drew her unresistingly towards him, and reproved the corallips for their silence, by sealing his forgiveness upon them with aloving kiss. And as Annie, albeit there is no reason to doubtthat she was an exceedingly moral and well-conducted younglady, did not appear to discern any great impropriety in this act,but on the contrary, disengaged herself fi-om his embrace gentlyand tenderly, the probabilities are, looking at the matter ina con-ect light, and with an artist eye, (an optical delusion, popu-larly supposed to fulfil one of the main duties of charity, byclothing the naked,) that the view she took of the afiOiir was aright one. And then by degrees, having declared that it wasimpossible she could ever tell him anything about it, but thatLaura knew,—would not he go and ask Laura at once 1 (a pro- v^m-. OR, THE RAILRO^VD OF LIFE. G47 position Lewis coolly but decidedly rejected,) she contrived, shenever knew how, to enable him to guess the truth ; which he didvery quickly and cleverly, and found so perfectly satisfactory,that his anger (such mild auger !) instantly changed to the mostunmitigated pity, an emotion so nearly akin to that other Clu-is-tian virtue, love, that we fear w^e shall lay ourselves open to thecharge of writing an actual love scene, if we pursue the subjectany further. And as it is a well ascertained fact, that youngpersons strictly brought up, and never allowed to inflame theirimaginations and gain pei-verted views of life, by perusing thoseinventions of the enemy of man-(and woman-) kind, works offiction, either never fall in love at all, or do so according toparental act of pai-liament, passed in the year one of the reign ofgood king Mammon, we (lest we incur the high displeasure of anyof this monarchs respectable sub
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