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I would only have said, that I had begun a letter to my cousin Morden some time ago: but that now I can never end it. You will believe I cannot: for how shall I tell him that all his compliments are misbestowed? that all his advice is thrown away? all his warnings vain? and that even my highest expectation is to be the wife of that free-liver, whom he so pathetically warns me to shun?
It was not only that he had died and left her a young widow; nor even that his end had been so harsh a tragedy and so foul a disgrace! It was not only that her love had been misbestowed, not only that she had made so grievous an error in the one great act of her life which she had chosen to perform on her own judgment!
The hero is the celebrated Paul Jones, whom I well remember advancing above the island of Inchkeith, with three small vessels, to lay Leith under contribution.... The novel is a very clever one, and the sea-scenes and characters in particular are admirably drawn; and I advise you to read it as soon as possible. Still higher panegyric would not have been misbestowed in this instance, which illustrates Mr Prescott's remark, that Cooper's descriptions of inanimate nature, no less than of savage man, are alive with the breath of poetry 'Witness his infinitely various pictures of the ocean; or, still more, of the beautiful spirit that rides upon its bosom, the gallant ship. Though it is to The Pilot, pre-eminently, and The Waterwitch, in nearly an equal degree, that these remarks apply, there is many a passage in Cooper's later novels for example, The Two Admirals, Homeward Bound, Mark's Reef, Ashore and Afloat, and The Sea-Lions in which we recognise the same 'cunning' right hand which pencilled the Ariel, and its crew, the moody, mysterious pilot, and stalwart Long Tom Coffin.
What can be misbestowed by a man on his person who values it more than his mind? But what a length I have run! III. Miss Byron: In Continuation We found at home, waiting for Mr. Reeves's return, Sir John Allestree, a worthy, sensible man, of plain and unaffected manners, upwards of fifty. Mr.
But devil a trace can I see!" "Now, look here," St. Piran said; "the church was there, right enough." "That's a true word," spoke up an old man, "for I mind it well. An elegant tower it had, an' a shingle roof." "Spake up, now," said the saint, glaring around; "fwich av ye's gone an' misbestowed me parush church?
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