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Then came over my mind the savage and exulting eye of Thornton, when it read the damning record of Glanville's guilt; and in spite of my horror at the crime of my former friend, I trembled for his safety: nor was I satisfied with myself at my prevarication as a witness.
I felt Glanville's hand relax its grasp upon my arm- -he fell upon the floor I raised him a smile of ineffable serenity and peace was upon his lips; his face was as the face of an angel, but the spirit had passed away! Now haveth good day, good men all, Haveth good day, young and old; Haveth good day, both great and small, And graunt merci a thousand fold!
I took up one of the newspapers listlessly: Glanville's name struck me; I read the paragraph which contained it it was a high-flown and fustian panegyric on his genius and promise. I turned to another column, it contained a long speech he had the night before made in the House of Commons. "Can such things be?" thought I; yea, and thereby hangs a secret and an anomaly in the human heart.
I never once saw more than three persons at his table. He seemed, in his taste for furniture, in his love of literature, and his pursuit after fame, to be, as he himself said, eternally endeavouring to forget and eternally brought back to remembrance. "I pity that man even more than I admire him," said Vincent to me, one night when we were walking home from Glanville's house.
He did so joy himself in a brave woman that he had been with all the afternoon, and who should it be but my Lady Robinson, but very troublesome he is with his noise and talke, and laughing, though very pleasant. With him in his coach to Mr. Glanville's, where he sat with Mrs. Penington and myself a good while talking of this fine woman again and then went away.
With these, it is true, were mingled feelings which, in happier circumstances, might have been those of transport at a bright and successful termination to a deep and devoted love; but these I had, while Glanville's very life was so doubtful, little right to indulge, and I checked them as soon as they arose. After a sleepless night, I repaired to Lady Glanville's house.
I was descending the stairs in the last state of ennui, when Glanville laid his hand on my shoulder. "Shall I take you home?" said he: "my carriage has just drawn up." I was too glad to answer in the affirmative. "How long have you been an author?" said I, when we were seated in Glanville's carriage. "Not many days," he replied. "I have tried one resource after another all all in vain.
As I walked home, revolving the scene I had witnessed, the words of Tyrrell came into my recollection viz. that the cause of Glanville's dislike to him had arisen in Tyrrell's greater success in some youthful liaison. In this account I could not see much probability.
With these last words, Glanville's voice faltered, and I felt averse to push the argument further. Ellen's eye caught mine, and gave me a look so kind, and almost grateful, that I forgot every thing else in the world. A few moments afterwards a friend of Lady Glanville's was announced, and I left the room. Intus et in jecore aegro, Nascuntur domini. Persius.
So I assisted them in helping to remove their small trade, but by and by I am told that it is only the Custome House men who came to seize the things that did lie at Mr. Glanville's, for which they did never yet see our Transire, nor did know of them till to-day. So that my fear is now over, for a transire is ready for them. Cocke did get a great many of his goods to London to-day.
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