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Updated: June 13, 2025
In that gaze, how much was there to arrest his attention. On those features, death had stamped his seal. But there was a thought, which bore the ascendancy over this in Delme's mind. It was a thought which rose involuntarily, one for which he could not then account, and cannot now. For some seconds, it swayed his every emotion.
"And from a foreign shore Well to that heart might hers these absent greetings pour." Three weeks had elapsed since George's death. It would be difficult to depict satisfactorily, the state of Sir Henry Delme's mind during that period. The pride of life appeared crushed within him. He rarely took exercise, and when he did, his step was slow, and his gait tottering.
George Delme's mind was perfectly clear and collected; with the exception, that he would occasionally allude to his loss, in connection with some scene or subject of interest before them; and in a tone, and with language, that, appeared to his brother eccentric, but inexpressibly touching.
We left George and his brother, on the shore below the priest's cottage. The one was laid cold and motionless the other wished that he also were so. Immediately on Delme's falling, the young guide alarmed the priest brought him down to the spot pointed to the brothers threw himself into the boat and paddled swiftly across the lake, to alarm the guests at the inn.
Landing on the quay, they took charge of Delme's portmanteau, and conducted him through an ascending road, which seemed to form a part of the fortifications, till they arrived in front of a closed gate. They were challenged by the sentinel, and obliged to explain their business to a non-commissioned officer, before they were admitted.
He directed Delme not to be alarmed, should the paroxysm return; and recommended, that during the attack, George should lie down quietly and take twenty drops of Battley's solution of opium in a wine glass of water. As his friend did not appear alarmed, Delme's mind was once more assured; and he prepared to continue their journey to Florence, by the way of Perugia.
But an act of imprudence might have destroyed his peace of mind sickness have wasted his body. Nor was his uncertainty regarding George, Delme's only cause of disquiet. When he thought of Julia Vernon, there was a consequent internal emotion, that he could not subdue. He endeavoured to forget her her image haunted him.
We seem endowed with a more accurate knowledge of self; the inmost workings of our souls are abruptly revealed feeling's mysteries stand developed our weaknesses stare us in the face and our vices appear to gnaw the very vitals of our hope. The veil was indeed withdrawn, and Delme's heart acknowledged, that the fair being who leant on him for support, was dearer far dearer, than all beside.
Acme was silent and thoughtful; and tears quenched the fire of her usually sparkling eye. George Delme's recovery from this date became more rapid. He was able to resume his wonted exercise his step faltered less his eye became clearer. His convalescence was so decided, that the surgeon recommended his at once travelling, and for the present relinquishing the army.
All these things may awake reflections, which are alike futile and transitory; but they are accompanied by a mental excitement, which land scenes, however glorious, always fail to impart. Delme's voyage was not unpropitious, although the yacht was frequently baffled by contrary winds, which prevented the passage being very speedy.
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