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I was ashamed of your nativity, and of the colour you inherited from nature, and never estimated the qualities of your heart; but when shall the red-and-white beauty of England transcend my Espras in her fidelity and love, as she does in the skin-deep tints of a beguiling, treacherous face? God! what a change has come over this heart!
He spoke often of his wife, whom he called by the name of Espras; and, in the midst of his broken ejaculations, gushes of intense feeling came on him, filling his yellow sunken eyes with rheumy tears, and producing heavy sobs, which, repressed by his loaded chest, assumed sounds unlike anything I ever heard, and beyond my power of description.
That cannot be; because I understand it was intended for Espras, your loving, faithful wife; and who would administer so dreadful a poison to a creature so gentle and interesting? She is, besides, a foreigner in our land; and who would treat the poor unprotected stranger with the dainty that has concealed in it a lurking death? Is this the hospitality of Britain?"
"The fortune brought me by Espras," he vociferated, "is loaded by the burden of herself that glass is not well ground you are not so ill, my dear Espras, as to require a doctor I cannot bear the thought of you labouring under that necessity who can cure you so well as your devoted husband? Take this fear not why should love have suspicions?
Night and day I will watch and tend you, till the assiduities of my affection weary out the effects of your cruel disease brought on you O God! by your grief for me, your worthless Espras." And she buried her head in the bosom of the sick man, and sobbed intensely.
Gentle, beloved, injured Espras! that emaciated form, these trembling limbs, these sunken eyes, and these weak and whispering sounds of pity and affection have touched my heart with a power that never was vouchsafed to the tongue of eloquence. Transcending the rod of Moses, they have brought from the rock streams of blood; and every pulse is filled with tenderness and pity. Wretched fool!
Did Espras yet why should I suspect one who rejects suspicion as others do the poison she would swallow from my hand, though labelled by the apothecary? did Espras tell you what you have so darkly and fearfully hinted to me?"
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