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"Ha!" muttered Aram, who had hitherto seemed unconscious of all around him; so fixed had been his eye, so colourless his cheek, so motionless his posture.
His third poem bore his name and an address, which on instant inquiry turned out to be that of a vacant lot on Seventh Avenue near Central Park. Edwin Aram had by this time become an exasperating and picturesque individual, and the editorial staff was divided in its opinion concerning him.
The peace of my future life may depend on this single interview. What if Aram be condemned and and in short, it is no matter I must see her." "She would not hear of it, I fear," said Ellinor, in alarm. "Indeed, you cannot you do not know her state of mind." "Ellinor!" said Walter, doggedly, "I am resolved." And so saying, he moved towards the house.
Furnival; not exactly with justice, seeing that Messrs. Round and Crook were not at all of the same calibre in the profession as Mr. Solomon Aram. Mr. Furnival had already at this time seen Mr. Slow, of the firm of Slow and Bideawhile, who were Sir Peregrine's solicitors. This he had done chiefly that he might be able to tell Sir Peregrine that he had seen him. Mr.
"It is a harsh request, Eugene, and I do not think I will grant you so complete a monopoly of thought;" answered Madeline, playfully, yet half in earnest. "Madeline," said Aram, with a deep solemnity of manner, "I ask a request on which my very love for you depends. From the depths of my soul, I implore you to grant it; yea, to the very letter."
"Why," said Houseman, counting on his fingers, and muttering "twenty fifty wine and the creature cheap abroad humph! a hundred for living, and half as much for pleasure. Come, Aram, one hundred and fifty guineas per annum, English money, will do for a foreign life you see I am easily satisfied." "Be it so," said Aram, "I will engage by one means or another to procure it.
"Perhaps," suggested the reporter, politely, with the air of one who is trying to cover up a difficulty to the satisfaction of all, "Mr. Aram would remember it if he saw it." The editor nodded his head in assent, and took the first page of the two on which the poem was written, and held it out to Mr. Aram, who accepted the piece of foolscap and eyed it listlessly. "Yes, I wrote that," he said.
"This room," said Lester, looking round, "will be, I conclude, after Madeline's own heart; but will you always suffer her here? students do not sometimes like even the gentlest interruption." "I have not forgotten that Madeline's comfort requires some more cheerful retreat than this," said Aram, with a melancholy expression of countenance.
He complimented the sisters; he jested with Lester; but to Aram only, he manifested less the courtesy of kindness than of respect. He took his arm, and leaning on it with a light touch, led him to the group at the window.
Courage, Eugene Aram! thy mind, for which thou hast lived, and for which thou hast hazarded thy soul if soul and mind be distinct from each other thy mind can support thee yet through every peril: not till thou art stricken into idiotcy, shalt thou behold thyself defenceless.
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