Daniel Skepsey rejoices in service to his new master, owing to the scientific opinion he can at any moment of the day apply for, as to the military defences of the country; instead of our attempting to arrest the enemy by vociferations of persistent prayer:—­the sole point of difference between him and his Matilda; and it might have been fatal but that Nesta’s intervention was persuasive.  The two members of the Army first in the field to enrol and give rank according to the merits of either, to both sexes, were made one.  Colney Durance (practically cynical when not fancifully, men said) stood by Skepsey at the altar.  His published exercises in Satire produce a flush of the article in the Reviews of his books.  Meat and wine in turn fence the Hymen beckoning Priscilla and Mr. Pempton.  The forms of Religion more than the Channel’s division of races keep Louise de Seilles and Mr. Peridon asunder:  and in the uniting of them Colney is interested, because it would have so pleased the woman of the loyal heart no longer beating.  He let Victor’s end be his expiation and did not phrase blame of him.  He considered the shallowness of the abstract Optimist exposed enough in Victor’s history.  He was reconciled to it when, looking on their child, he discerned, that for a cancelling of the errors chargeable to them, the father and mother had kept faith with Nature.

ETEXT EDITOR’S BOOKMARKS: 

An incomprehensible world indeed at the bottom and at the top
Arrest the enemy by vociferations of persistent prayer
Country prizing ornaments higher than qualities
Death is our common cloak; but Calamity individualizes
How little we mean to do harm when we do an injury
Nation’s half made-up of the idle and the servants of the idle
No companionship save with the wound they nurse
Not always the right thing to do the right thing
The night went past as a year
Universal censor’s angry spite

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