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At this moment a hasty foot was heard on the staircase, and Georgiana Podsnap broke into the room, unannounced and in tears. 'Oh, my dear Sophronia, cried Georgiana, wringing her hands as she ran up to embrace her, 'to think that you and Alfred should be ruined! Oh, my poor dear Sophronia, to think that you should have had a Sale at your house after all your kindness to me!
Sophronia then I don't mind telling you, Sophronia, that I am convinced I have no heart, as people call it; and that I think that sort of thing is nonsense. 'Brave girl! murmured Mrs Lammle. 'And so, pursued Bella, 'as to seeking to please myself, I don't; except in the one respect I have mentioned. I am indifferent otherwise.
"No, it's Sophronia," said Polly, "but we call her Phronsie." "What a very funny name," said Jasper, "Sophronia is, for such a little thing and yours is Polly, is it not?" he asked, turning around suddenly on her. "Yes," said Polly; "no, not truly Polly; it's Mary, my real name is but I've always been Polly." "I like Polly best, too," declared Jasper, "it sounds so nice."
Manlius clasped the outstretched hand, and raising it to his lips, asked with tender emotion: "And your heart?" "The God of Love does not forbid earthly love," replied Sophronia, with a radiant smile.
She was untidy in her dress, it is true, but she had not quite that castaway and gone-to-sleep-in-a-dust-bin appearance that we, an earnest student of the drama, felt she ought to present, and we questioned her one day on the subject. "How is it, Sophronia," we said, "that you distantly resemble a human being instead of giving one the idea of an animated rag-shop?
He thanks you, dear friends, for your kindly greeting, and hopes to receive you it may be on the next of these delightful occasions in a residence better suited to your claims on the rites of hospitality. He will never forget that at Veneering's he first saw Sophronia. Sophronia will never forget that at Veneering's she first saw him.
Titus, on his part, heard and suffered everything with no little annoy and knowing it to be the usance of the Greeks to press on with clamours and menaces, till such times as they found who should answer them, and then to become not only humble, but abject, he bethought himself that their clamour was no longer to be brooked without reply and having a Roman spirit and an Athenian wit, he adroitly contrived to assemble Gisippus his kinsfolk and those of Sophronia in a temple, wherein entering, accompanied by Gisippus alone, he thus bespoke the expectant folk: 'It is the belief of many philosophers that the actions of mortals are determined and foreordained of the immortal Gods, wherefore some will have it that all that is or shall ever be done is of necessity, albeit there be others who attribute this necessity to that only which is already done.
It couldn't make it up to her for all the hardships she underwent when she was bringing up a family in that wild, western country, and especially that fall when they all had the "fever 'n' ager" so bad, Uriah and the twins chilling one day, and Hiram and Sophronia Jane the next, and she just as miserable as any of them, but keeping up somehow, God only knows how.
Tasso, whose design was regular, and who observed the roles of unity in time and place more closely than Virgil, yet was not so happy in his action: he confesses himself to have been too lyrical that is, to have written beneath the dignity of heroic verse in his episodes of Sophronia, Erminia, and Armida.
They are conducted with great art, and the characters and affections happily varied. There is no reason to believe that the staid and devout Sophronia would have loved her adorer at all, but for the circumstance that first dooms them both to a shocking death, and then sends them, with perfect warrant, from the stake to the altar.
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