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Rh feel lonely, neglected, miserable, aggrieved; and all that but one half-hour before we had been, exerting ourselves to attain, appears to be utterly worthless.

It is easy to say that such a state of mind is morbid and mistaken; but before we can change our feelings, we must change our nature; and a temperament of this sensitive and excitable kind is of all others the most difficult, nay, impossible, to alter and to subdue.

Evelyn's character was completely the opposite to this; he was naturally grave and reserved, and too little interested by the generality of mankind to be solicitous about their suffrage. More vanity would have made him more amiable, but it would have been at his own expense. He did not, could not, lightly attach himself; but when he did, it was with all the energy and depth of a passionate and melancholy nature—one of those attachments which are the destiny of a life. He was more given to reflection than to imagination—hence he dwelt more on the past than on the future; and with such tempers, impressions once admitted are deep and lasting.

With Evelyn, all the poetry of his mind was bestowed on the days which had been; those to come were mere matter of calculation. Placed in