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I aarried at that point of life, at which a n y at it a blessing, as it is a singurity, if he hae either of his parents suriing. I hae not that felicity -- and sotis think feelingly of a passage in Brownes Christian Morals, where he speaks of a n that hath lied sity or seenty years in the world. quot;In such a pass of ti,quot; he says, quot;a n y hae a close apprehension what it is to be fotten, wheh lied to find none whuld reer his father, or scarcely the friends of his youth, and sensibly see with what a fa no long ti OBLIVION will look upon hielf.quot;
I had an aunt, a dear and good one. She was one whosingle blessedness had soured to the world. She ofteo say, that I was the only thing in it which she loed; and, whehought I was quitting it, she grieed oer with thers tears. A partiality quite so eclusie reason ot aogether approe. She was frotill night p ood books, aional eercises. Her faourite olus were Thos Keis, in Staranstion; and a Ron Catholic prayer Book, with the tins and plines regurly set down, -- ter which I was at that ti too young to uand. She persisted in reading the ahough adnished daily ing their Papistical tendency; ao church eery Sabbath, as a good Protestant should do. These were the only books she studied; though, I think, at one period of her life, she told , she had read with great satisfa the Adentures of an Unfortunate Young Noblen. Finding the door of the chapel in Esse-street open one day -- it was in the infancy of that heresy -- she went in, liked the sern, and the nner of worship, and freque at interals so ti after. She ot for doal points, and neer ssed the With so little asperities iitution, which I hae aboe hi, she was a steadfast, friendly being, and a fine old Christian. She was a won of strong sense, and a shrewd nd -- etraordinary at a repartee; one of the few oasions of her breaking silence -- else she did not ch alue wit. The only secur eloynt I reer to hae seen her engaged in, was, the splitting of French beans, and dropping theinto a a basin of fair water. The odour of those tender egetables to this day es back upon sense, redolent of soothing lles. Certainly it is the st delicate of ary operations.
Male aunts, as sobody calls the I had none -- to reer. By the uncles side I y be said to hae been born an orphan. Brother, or sister, I neer had any -- to know the A sister, I think, that should hae been Elizabeth, died in both our infancies. What a fort, or what a care, y I not hae ssed in her! -- But I hausins, sprinkled about ifordshire -- besides two, with whoI hae been all life in habits of the closest inticy, and whoI y terusins par ecellehese are Jas and Bridget Elia. They are older than self by twele, and ten, years; aher of thesee disposed, in tters of adid guidao waie any of the prerogaties which prigeniture fers. May they tiill in the sa nd; and when they shall be seenty-fie, ay-three, years old (I ot spare thesooner), persist iing in grand clicteric precisely as a stripling, or younger brother!
Jas is an ineplicablusin. Nature hath her unities, whiot eery criti pee; or, if we feel, we ot epihe pen of Yorick, and of none since hisuld hae drawn J. E. entire -- those fine Shandian lights and shades, which ke up his story. I st li after in  oor antithetiner, as the fates hae gien grad talent. J. F. then -- to the eye of a on obserer at least -- seeth de up of tradictory principles. ;bdo９9ｌiｂ?;/bdo-- The genuine child of iulse, the frigid philosopher of prudence -- the phlegof sins doe is inariably at war with his teerant, which is high sanguine. With always so fire-new proje his brain, J. E. is the systetic oppo of innoation, and crier down of eery thing that has not stood the test of age and eperint. With a hundred fiions chasing one another hourly in his fancy, he is startled at the least approach to the ronti others; and, deterned by his own sense ihing, ends you to the guidance of on sense on all oasions. -- With a touch of the etri all which he does, or says, he is only anious that you should not it yourself by doing any thing absurd or singur. On oting slip at table, that I was not fond of a certain popur dish, he begged at any rate not to say so -- for the world would think d. He disguises a passionate fondness for works of high art (whereof he hath assed a choiclle), uhe pretet of buying only to sell again -- that his enthusiasy gie no eo yours. Yet, if it were so, why does that piece of tender, pastoral Donio hang still by his wall? -- is the ball of his sight ch re dear to hi -- or icture-dealer talk like hi
Whereas nkind in general are obsered to their specutie clusions to the bent of their indiidual huurs, his theories are sure to be in diatrical opposition to his stitution. He is ceous as Charles of Sweden, upon instinct; chary of his person, upon principle, as a traelling Quaker. -- He has been preag up to , all life, the doe of bowing to the great -- the y of for, and o a ing on in the world. He hielf neer ai at either, that I der, -- and has a spirit, that would stand upright in the presence of the Chaof Tartary. It is pleasant to hear hidurse of patience -- etolling it as the truest wisdo--and to see hiduring the st seen hat his dinner is getting ready. Nature neer ran up in her haste a re restless piece of worknship than when she ulded this ietuouusin --and Art urned out a re eborate orator than he dispy hielf to be, upon his faourite topic of the adantages of quiet, aedness iate, whateer it y be, that ced in. He is triuhant on this the, when he has you safe in one of those short stages that ply for the western road, in a ery nner, at the foot of John Murrays street -- where you get i is ety, and are epected to wait till the ehicle hath pleted her just freight -- a trying three quarters of an hour to so people. He wonders at your fidgetiness,--- quot;wheruld we be better than we are, thus sitting, thus suing?quot; --quotrefers, for his part, a state of rest to lootion,quot; -- with an eye all the while upon the an -- till at length, wag out of all patie your want of it, he breaks out into a pathetistra the fellow for detaining us so lohe ti which he had professed, and decres peretorily, that quot;the gentlen in thach is detero get out, if he does not drie on that instant.quot;
Very quick at iing an argunt, or deteg a sophistry, he is incapable of attending you in any uing. Indeed he kes wild work with logid see to ju at st adrable clusions by so process, not at all akin to it. sonantly enough to this, he hath been heard to deny, upoain oasions, that there eists such a facuy at all in n as reason; and woh how n ca first to hae a ceit of it -- enf his ion with all the ght of reasoning he is ster of. He has so specutie notions against ughter, and will intain that ughing is not natural to hi-- when peradehe nt his lungs shall crow like ticleer. He says so of the best things in the world -- ah that wit is his aersion. It was he who said, upon seeing the Eton boys at py in their grounds -- What a pity to think, that these fine ingenuous ds in a few years will all be ged into friolous Meers of Parliant!
His youth was fiery, glowing, teestuous -- and in age he dereth no sytoooling. This is that which I adre in hi I hate people who et Ti half-way. I afor no prose with that iable spoiler. While he lies, J. E. will take his swing. -- It does good, as I walk towards the street of daily aocation, on so fine May to et hirg in a quite opposite dire, with a jolly handso presence, and shining sanguine face, that indicates so purchase in his eye -- a Cude -- or a Hobbi -- for ch of his eniable leisure is ed at Christies, and Phillipss -- or where not, to pick up pictures, and such gauds. On these oasioly stoppeth , to read a short lecture on the adantage a person like  ossesses aboe hielf, in haing his ti oupied with business which he st do -- assureth that he often feels it hang heay o;bdi;/bdin his hands -- wishes he had fewer holidays -- and goes off -- Westward Ho! -- ting a tuo Pall Mall -- perfectly ihat he has inbsp; -- while I proceed in opposite dire tuneless.
It is pleasant again to see this Professor of Indifference doing the honours of his new purchase, when he has fairly housed it. You st iew it in eery light, till he has found the best -- pg it at this distance, and at that, but always suiting the focus of yht to his own. You st spy at it through your fingers, to catch the aerial perspectie -- though you assure hithat to you the ndscape shows ch eeable without that artifice. Wo be to the luckless wight, who does not only not respond to his rapture, but who should drop an unseasoition of preferring one of his anterior bargains to the present! -- The st is always his best hit -- his quot;thia of the nute.quot; -- As! how ny a ld Madonna hae I known to e in -- a Raphael ! -- keep its asdancy for a few brief ons -- then, after certain interdial degradations, frothe front drawing-rooto the back gallery, theo the dark parlour, adopted in turn by each of the Carrai, under suessie l ascriptions of filiation, ldly breaking its fall -- sigo the obliious luer-roo go out at st a Lua Giordano, or pin aratti -- which things when I beheld sing upon the ces and tabilities of fate below, hath de to reflect upoered dition of great personages, or that woful Queen of Richard the Sed -
-- set forth in po,
She ca adorned hither like sweet May.
Sent back like Hollowss or shortest day.
With great loe for you, J. E. bath but a lited syathy with what you feel or do. He lies in a world of his own, an;dfn;/dfnd kes slender guesses at asses in your nd. He neer pierces the rrow of your habits. He will tell an old established py-goer, that Mr. Such-a-one, of So-and-so (nang one of the theatres), is a ery liely edian -- as a piece of news! He adertised but the other day of so pleasant green nes which he had found out for , knowio be a great walker, in owe iity -- who hae hauhe identical spot any ti these twenty years ! -- He has not ch respect for that css of feelings which goes by the na of seal. He applies the definition of real eil to bodily sufferings eclusiely -- aeth all others as iginary. He is affected by the sight, or the bare supposition, of a creature in pain, to a degree which I hae neer witnessed out of wonkind. A stitutional aess to this css of sufferings y in part at for this. The anil tribe in particur he taketh under his especial prote. A broken-winded or spur-galled horse is sure to find an adocate in hi An oer-loaded ass is his t for eer. He is the apostle to the brute kind -- the neer-failing friend of those who hae o care for the The ption of a lobster boiled, or eels skinned alie, will wring hiso, that quot;all for pity huld die.quot; It will take the saour frohis pate, and the rest frohis pillow, for days and nights. With the intense feeling of Thos Crkson, he wanted only the steadiness of pursuit, and unity of purpose, of that quot;true yoke-fellow with Ti,quot; to hae effected as ch for the anil, as he bath done for the Negro Creation. but untrolblusin is but ierfectly ford for purposes which deio wait. His alioration-pns st be ripened in a day. For this reason he has cut but an equiocal figure in be societies, and binations for the alleiation of hun sufferings. His zeal stantly kes hito outrun, and put out, hiadjutors. He thinks of relieing,while they think of debating. He was bck-balled out of a society for the Relief of -----, because the feror of his hunity toiled beyond the forl apprehension, and creeping processes, of his associates. I shall always sider this distin as a patent of nobility in the Elia fa;big..;/bigly!
Do I ntion these seeng insisteo sle at, or upbraid, uniquusin? Marry, heaen, and all good nners, and the uanding that should be between kinsfolk, forbid -- With all the strangenesses of this stra of the Elias -- I would not hae hii or tittle other than he is; her would I barter e wild kinsn for the st eact, regur, and eery way sistent kinshing.
In , reader, I y perhaps gie you so at of sin Bridget -- if you are not already surfeited witusins -- and take you by the hand, if you are willing to go with us, on an ecursion which we de a suer or two since, in searorusins -
Through the green pins of pleasafordshire
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