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OR,

MEMOIRS

OF

TWO NOBLE FAMILIES.

A NOVEL, IN THREE VOLUMES.

BY MRS. BYRON,

AUTHOR OF ANTI-DELPHINE.

YOL. III.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn; good and ill together:
our virtues would be proud if our faults whipp'd them not; and
our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our
virtues.

Shakespeare.

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DRELINCOURT AND RODALVI.

CHAP. XXXV.

Smiles on past misfortune's brow,
Soft reflection's hand can trace:
And o'er the cheek of sorrow throw
A melancholy grace;

While hope prolongs our happier hour
Or deepest shades that dimly low'r
And blacken round our weary way,
Gilds with a gleam of distant day.

Still where rosy pleasure leads,
See a kindred grief pursue;
Behind the steps that misery treads,
Approaching comfort view:

The hues of bliss more brightly glow
Chastised by sable tints of woe,
And blended form with artful strife
The strength and harmony of life.

GRAY.

IN the Earl's present frame of mind, the gaieties of London disgusted, and business seemed irksome to him. He was too tenderly beloved by his family, for his wishes not to be theirs; and at his VOL. III. desire

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