...a chaster tone, may stand as an average specimen of the style. ' After a time, he (Matilda's lover) sought some relief to his feelings in active service...cause of the Greeks ; but even in the most eventful moment moment of his after life, that would sometimes obtrude itself, which was never absent from his...

...his helpless infant had also closed its ephemeral existence, and that he was thus utterly bereaved at once of every outward trace, of every living record,...catastrophe which had left him alone in the world." The author tells us, in the commencement of the volume, that, in early life, "Matilda's religious education...