Angelina: Or, The Mystery of St. Mark's Abbey — page 229: what you’re looking at

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216 ANGELINA 3 OR, for philanthrophy was his prevailing passion, aad many were the unfortunate beings who had good cause to bless and revere his name. Lady Arlingham (to whem Sir Edward Arlingham had been united when very young) was every way worthy of such a husband—mild, affable, amiable, and benevolent. Her sole delight seemed to be in doing good—in seeking to make her husband happy—in instracting her children, and inciting them to those deeds of virtue that had rendered her and her husband such bright orna- ments of society. Eustace Arlingham was several years the senior of his sister, Emmeline, and early evinced all those noble and excellent qualities which his father possessed. Emmeline, too, answered all the expectations of her fond parents, and as she increased in years, 80 likewise did her virtues and her beauty. There was but another being who formed one of this happy family, and that was Matilda, the orphan daughter of Lady Arlingham’s sister, whose parents having died when she was very young, she had since been brought up under the protection of her uncle and aunt, with the same care and affection as if abe had been their own child. And well did the beauteous Matilda repay their kindoess, for her miod being endowed with every virtuous and smiable quality, it was her constant study to please them, and to show how well she ee had profitted by the brilliant example they had set her. She was onty a year younger than Emmeline, and they loved each ‘other with the same passiunate fondness as if they had been sisters. "Lady Arlingham died suddenly, when Emmeline was not more than sixteen years of age, and Sir Edward was so deeply affected, that he never recovered, and in the course of a few months followed his wife te the tomb, leaving tis son, Eustace, in the possession of his title aad estates, and appointing him the guardian of his sister and Matilda, until they became of age. This task he was prepared to fulfil in the most excellent and praiseworthy manner, for never was brother more fondly attached to a sister, than he was to Emmeline, and on his cousin he bestowed the most unbounded affection. Two years passed away-—years of uninterrupted happiness, anless it was the sorrow occasioned when they recalled to their memory the irreparable loss they had sustained by the demise of the late Sir Edward and Lady Arlingham. At this period, Sir Eustace led te the hymenial altar Amabel, the fair and accom- plished daughter of Lord and Lady Hammersford, in his union with whom, he anticipated every earthly felicity. But, although Lady Amabel ever behaved with kindness and attention to Sir Eustace, there was not that passionate fond- ness in her conduct which he had been sanguine enough te expect; and there were times when she would be buried in a profound melancholy, from which he found it impossible to arouse her, and was equally unable to penetrate. This, of course, caused him considerable uneasiness, and he endeavoured all iu his power to dissipate it. He redoubled his affectionate attentions, was most stu- dious to anticipate her every wish, and tried every effort his mind could sug- gest to enliven her, in which task he was ably assisted by his sister and Ma- tilda, who had formed the most fervent attachment to the Lady Amabel, the graces of whose mind shone forth. upon all occasions, most redundantly. She, too, was not unmindfal of their love, and frequently repaid them by her earnest assurances of a reciprocal affection. COMIC OOOKS. EO