Desperate Remedies

orthy of record some experiences of Cytherea Graye, Edward Springrove, and

and town of Hocbridge, to the north of Christminster, went to London to spend the Christmas holidays with a friend who lived in B

ch, exercised on homeliness, was humour; on nature, picturesqueness; o

discover evil in a new friend is to most people only a

lived in a street not far from Russell Square. Though they were in no more than comfortable circumstances, the captain's wife

girls of that type of beauty, except in one respect. She was perfect in her manner and bearing, and they were not. A mere distinguishing peculiarity, by catching the eye, is often read as the pervading characteristic,

d having few friends (for their equals in blood were their superiors in position), he was received on very generous terms. His passion for Cytherea grew not only strong, but ineffably exalted: she, without positively encouraging him, tacitly assented to his scheme

ks of sweet experience, he had arrived at the last stage-a kind of moral Gaza-before plunging into an emotiona

irst to last she had repressed all recognition of the true nature of the thread which drew them together, blinding herself to its meaning and only natural tendency, and appearing to

ing. He took her into a little conservatory on the landing, and there among the evergreens, by the light of a few tiny lamps,

darling, b

now!' she faltered, in a voice of anguish. 'I will w

xt morning. Who shall express his misery and wonder wh

hing divides us eternally. Forgive me-I should have told

ter of entreaty could wring from her any explanation. She begged him not to follow her, and the most bewildering point was that her father and mother appeared, from the tone of a letter Graye re

een some prior flirtation between Cytherea and her cousin, an officer of the line, two or three years before Graye met her, which had suddenly been terminated by the cousin's departure for India, and the young lady's travelling on the Continent with her parents the whole of the ensuing summer, on account of delicate health. Eventually Huntway said t

therea had forgotten him and his