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And by a sad contradiction Dorothea's ideas and resolves see and lost in the warm flood of which they had been

but another form She was hu, as if she could know nothing except through that itation, of struggle, of

despondency, and then again in visions ofall hard conditions into duty Poor Dorothea! she was

certainly troubleso for the

first tiun, while they were taking coffee, with a determination to

shake off what she inwardly called her selfishness, and turned a face

all cheerful attention to her husband when he said, "My dear Dorothea,

we must now think of all that is yet left undone, as a preliminary to

our departure I would fain have returned hoht

have been at Lowick for the Christmas; but my inquiries here have been

protracted beyond their anticipated period I trust, however, that the

tihts of

Europe, that of Ro and in

so I well remember that I considered it an epoch

in my life when I visited it for the first time; after the fall of

Napoleon, an event which opened the Continent to travellers Indeed I