Kenelm Chillingly, Book 4.

nd I trust that you are now prepared to take that part in it which oug

f the pieces which appear now to be the fashion, w

en I expressed my hope that you would take no mean part in the world, the world is not really a theatre. Life admits of n

e melancholic, melancholy has a happiness of its own. Milton shows that there are as many

u to my care. When at the age of sixteen, with a boy's years and a man's heart, you came to London, did I not try to be to you almo

rsuits natural to my age and station. However, I have been seeking to brace and harden my nature, for the practical ends of life, by travel and adventure, chiefly among rougher varieties of mankind than we meet in drawing-rooms. Now, in compliance with the duty I owe to my dear father's wishes, I come back to these circles, which under your auspices I entered in boyhood, and which even then seemed to me so inane and artificial. Take a part in the world of these circles; such is your wish. My answer is brief. I have been doing

t, very active, who at your age felt the same es

iled those men t

that unconscious fusion of one's own being into ot

to home, but I

s no home for man whe

In that case I r

uld love enough to make her your wife, and never enter any home that

uch a woman; seriously, I

e longing to see you again,-to know your address that I might write to you; for yesterday, when a certain young lady left my ho

glad to hear that this youn

yed with me till her father came to town, and the house he had t

: they permit me to call

st, who and what is the young lady who

but a vague sen

is time to quit the hermitage. Come, there are many persons here, with some of whom y

lvon wherever she deigns to lead me