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Brotherly Love.
BROTHERLY LOVE .
BY ALEX . HENRY GIRVEN , AUTHOR OF " REGINALD SELWYN , " ( Continued from p . 494 , ) IN some human hearts there is a species of baseness that almost exceeds belief—a foul rankling venom , that would induce a suspicion that there is some fiendish element in the constitution of man—it has many formsand
, one name , ingratitude . Of this the imbecile Andre Buffon was an illustration . The chastisement he had received from Simon , had left a hatred towards his previous benefactor , that exhibited itself -whenever the occasion was presented . He had circulated certain stories relative to him , notwithstanding the kindness with which he hacl been treated on the battle-field , calculated to blacken his character still further . These reached the ears of
Jeunegrace in the town ; and as detraction and falsehood were strangers to his disposition , he did not suspect that they could originate from calumny . He was a Christian , and the reluctance with which he made his statement to Ida , and his assertion that he was prevented from mentioning what he had learned before , from a fear that he might be supposed to depreciate his rival for his own purposes , convinced her that he was not gratifying any
personal feeling . She heard him with sorrow , but without any other sentiment . She knew that with all his defects there was a better nature struggling in Simon ' s breast , and she had for some time considered that she had renounced him too hastily , and in an unchristian manner . He loved her , purelydevotedly loved her ; and she was the onl y living thing that he felt
, had ever cared for him , or brightened the darkness of his early life . And now that she was about to place an inseparable barrier between them , to snap for ever that link of love which bound them together , she coidd only think of him with tenderness and compassion , and clothed with a thousand endearing and sanctifying associations and memories . When Jeunegrace had
concluded his recital , she said : "He is more an object of pity than censure ; for there were none to love him , but many to turn his feelings to bitterness . I know that he has a generous and a tender heart , a better , purer nature than the world that crushed it could imagine . " Jeunegrace respected the feeling that dictated these words ; and though
it gave him a transient pang to think that another should possess so much of Ida ' s affection , he made no further observation , and the subject dropped . Here we must request our readers attention to a circumstance that will , in some degree , explain an apparent inconsistency in the act of Jeunegrace ' s intended marriage with one who he knew was attached to another . He had loved Madame Lefebre before her marriageand he knew that she
recipro-, cated his affection . But he was poor , and his kinsman was rich . He w as aware that in her marriage she was trampling her own feelings for the sake of her j > arents , the same motive that he was satisfied was actuating Ida in her acceptance of him . He saw , notwithstanding , that she made an amiable and affectionate wife until her husband relapsed into his former
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Brotherly Love.
BROTHERLY LOVE .
BY ALEX . HENRY GIRVEN , AUTHOR OF " REGINALD SELWYN , " ( Continued from p . 494 , ) IN some human hearts there is a species of baseness that almost exceeds belief—a foul rankling venom , that would induce a suspicion that there is some fiendish element in the constitution of man—it has many formsand
, one name , ingratitude . Of this the imbecile Andre Buffon was an illustration . The chastisement he had received from Simon , had left a hatred towards his previous benefactor , that exhibited itself -whenever the occasion was presented . He had circulated certain stories relative to him , notwithstanding the kindness with which he hacl been treated on the battle-field , calculated to blacken his character still further . These reached the ears of
Jeunegrace in the town ; and as detraction and falsehood were strangers to his disposition , he did not suspect that they could originate from calumny . He was a Christian , and the reluctance with which he made his statement to Ida , and his assertion that he was prevented from mentioning what he had learned before , from a fear that he might be supposed to depreciate his rival for his own purposes , convinced her that he was not gratifying any
personal feeling . She heard him with sorrow , but without any other sentiment . She knew that with all his defects there was a better nature struggling in Simon ' s breast , and she had for some time considered that she had renounced him too hastily , and in an unchristian manner . He loved her , purelydevotedly loved her ; and she was the onl y living thing that he felt
, had ever cared for him , or brightened the darkness of his early life . And now that she was about to place an inseparable barrier between them , to snap for ever that link of love which bound them together , she coidd only think of him with tenderness and compassion , and clothed with a thousand endearing and sanctifying associations and memories . When Jeunegrace had
concluded his recital , she said : "He is more an object of pity than censure ; for there were none to love him , but many to turn his feelings to bitterness . I know that he has a generous and a tender heart , a better , purer nature than the world that crushed it could imagine . " Jeunegrace respected the feeling that dictated these words ; and though
it gave him a transient pang to think that another should possess so much of Ida ' s affection , he made no further observation , and the subject dropped . Here we must request our readers attention to a circumstance that will , in some degree , explain an apparent inconsistency in the act of Jeunegrace ' s intended marriage with one who he knew was attached to another . He had loved Madame Lefebre before her marriageand he knew that she
recipro-, cated his affection . But he was poor , and his kinsman was rich . He w as aware that in her marriage she was trampling her own feelings for the sake of her j > arents , the same motive that he was satisfied was actuating Ida in her acceptance of him . He saw , notwithstanding , that she made an amiable and affectionate wife until her husband relapsed into his former