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230 Portia; her rich melancholy voice gives such effect to poetry. I missed her when she was not on the stage, in spite of the absorbing interest of that most calumniated and ill-used person, the Jew." Emily.—"A most amiable person you have chosen for your object of interest." Edward Lorraine.—"I do think him so ill used: his riches matter of mingled envy and reproach—himself insulted,—his daughter, to whom, at least, he softens into affection—otherwise so chilled and checked—deserts, nay, robs him,—I am sure he has most sufficient cause of resentment against 'these Christians;' only I cannot forgive his craven conduct in the last scene: had I been Shylock, I would have exacted my penalty at its utmost peril,—my life should have cheaply bought Antonio's." Mr. Morland.—"That would have been carrying revenge sufficiently far." Edward Lorraine.—"Truly, I hold revenge to be a moral duty. To permit ourselves to be injured with impunity, is to give an encouragement to evil, which may afterwards turn against others as well as ourselves. Some one says, revenge is such a luxury, the gods keep it to themselves; when they do permit us to