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They reached Rome; and the consummation of their task drew nigh. Pass we over the husband's last earthly farewell. Pass we over that subduing scene, in which Henry assisted George to sever long ringlets, and rob the cold finger, of affection's dearest pledge. Alas! these might be retained as the legacy of love. They were useless as love's memento.
For though legally at liberty to do as he chose, and though their daughter-in-law's qualifications could make no practical difference to their lives, in the probability of her living far away from them, he wished for affection's sake not to wound their sentiment in the most important decision of his life.
For our affection's sake I wish it had been a picturesque one; but truth obliges me to confess that, when our visitor did at last arrive, Matilda and I were chiefly struck by the fact that she wore thick boots, and did not wear crinoline. An upright, quite ladylike, but rather old-fashioned little figure, somewhat quaint from the simplicity of her dress.
Their neighbour the Dean, a clear-headed and practical man, took upon himself the management of affairs; as money was needed the work of devastation must begin at once. The mother and son did not wish to witness it. They came to England like two fugitives who, after many and great trials, for affection's sake seek a new home and a new country. Rafael was then twelve years old.
DON MANUEL. I gaze Upon thy brow, and still behold my mother In some dear lineament. DON CAESAR. Her image looks From thine, and wondrous in my bosom wakes Affection's springs. DON MANUEL. And is it thou? that smile Benignant on thy face? thy lips that charm With gracious sounds of love and dear forgiveness? DON CAESAR. Is this my brother, this the hated foe?
Her church associates were all that she had desired, and much more numerous than she had expected, and they were living all around her. She was also near her beloved relatives, and that sacred place where she first found the Saviour, precious to her soul. "There is a spot to me more dear than native vale or mountain; A spot for which affection's tear flows freely from its fountain.
And so far as it is taken for granted that barely having the means and materials of enjoyment is what constitutes interest and happiness; that our interest or good consists in possessions themselves, in having the property of riches, houses, lands, gardens, not in the enjoyment of them; so far it will even more strongly be taken for granted, in the way already explained, that an affection's conducing to the good of another must even necessarily occasion it to conduce less to private good, if not to be positively detrimental to it.
To the very last moment affection's sweet work had been done; the eye, the voice, the smile, to say nothing of the hands, had been tasked and kept in play to put away recollections, to cheer hopes, to soften the present, to lighten the future; and hardest of all, to do the whole by her own living example.
For those, his closer kin, whose home Is darkened by the shadow grey, What can respectful love but pray That consolation thither come In that most sacred soothing guise Which natural sorrow sanctifies. Bereavement's anguish to assuage Is a sore task that lies beyond The scope of friendship or most fond Affection's power.
When a kindred heart thou meetest, Unpolluted with the strife, The selfish aims that tarnish life; Ere the scowl of care has faded The shining chaplet Fancy braided, And emotions pure and high Swell the heart and fill the eye; Rich revealings of a mind Within a loving breast enshrined, To thine own fond bosom plighted, In affection's bonds united: The sober joys of after years Are nothing to those smiles and fears.
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