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Charlotte Temple-Part3_Susanna Rowson(1762-1824)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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When the heart has will, the hands can soon find means to execute

a good action.



Temple was a young man, his feelings warm and impetuous;

unacquainted with the world, his heart had not been rendered



callous by being convinced of its fraud and hypocrisy.

He pitied their sufferings, overlooked their faults, thought every



bosom as generous as his own, and would chearfully have divided

his last guinea with an unfortunate fellow creature.



No wonder, then, that such a man (without waiting a moment

for the interference of Madam Prudence) should resolve to raise



money sufficient for the relief of Eldridge, by mortgaging part

of his fortune.



We will not enquire too minutely into the cause which might actuate

him in this instance: suffice it to say, he immediately put



the plan in execution; and in three days from the time he first saw

the unfortunate Lieutenant, he had the superlative felicity of seeing



him at liberty, and receiving an ample reward in the tearful eye

and half articulated thanks of the grateful Lucy.



"And pray, young man," said his father to him one morning,

"what are your designs in visiting thus constantly that old man



and his daughter?"

Temple was at a loss for a reply: he had never asked himself



the question: he hesitated; and his father continued--

"It was not till within these few days that I heard in what manner your



acquaintance first commenced, and cannot suppose any thing but attachment

to the daughter could carry you such imprudent lengths for the father:



it certainly must be her art that drew you in to mortgage part

of your fortune."



"Art, Sir!" cried Temple eagerly. "Lucy Eldridge is as free from

art as she is from every other error: she is--"



"Everything that is amiable and lovely," said his father,

interrupting him ironically: "no doubt in your opinion she



is a pattern of excellence for all her sex to follow; but come,

Sir, pray tell me what are your designs towards this paragon.



I hope you do not intend to complete your folly by marrying her."

"Were my fortune such as would support her according to her merit,



I don't know a woman more formed to insure happiness in

the married state."



"Then prithee, my dear lad," said his father, "since your rank

and fortune are so much beneath what your PRINCESS might expect,



be so kind as to turn your eyes on Miss Weatherby; who, having only

an estate of three thousand a year, is more upon a level with you,



and whose father yesterday solicited the mighty honour of your alliance.

I shall leave you to consider on this offer; and pray remember,



that your union with Miss Weatherby will put it in your power

to be more liberally the friend of Lucy Eldridge. "



The old gentleman walked in a stately manner out of the room;

and Temple stood almost petrified with astonishment, contempt, and rage.



CHAPTER V.

SUCH THINGS ARE.



MISS Weatherby was the only child of a wealthy man, almost idolized

by her parents, flattered by her dependants, and never



contradicted even by those who called themselves her friends:

I cannot give a better description than by the following lines.



The lovely maid whose form and face

Nature has deck'd with ev'ry grace,



But in whose breast no virtues glow,

Whose heart ne'er felt another's woe,



Whose hand ne'er smooth'd the bed of pain,

Or eas'd the captive's galling chain;



But like the tulip caught the eye,

Born just to be admir'd and die;






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