deep yet so steady a hand that they take away the noxious, and leave the sound to suppurate and heal!
Can we do less? said I. Ours is no common task! We are acting in behalf of society: we have found a treasure,

by which it is to be enriched. Few indeed are those puissant and heavenly endowed spirits, that are capable of guiding, enlightening, and leading the human race onward to felicity! What is there precious but mind? And when mind, like a diamond of uncommon growth, exceeds a certain magnitude, calculation cannot find its value!
I once more left him; and never did I quit the company of human being, no not of Anna St. Ives herself, with a more glowing and hoping heart. But why describe sensations to thee, Oliver, with which thou art so intimately acquainted? To bid thee rejoice, to invite thee to participate in felicity, which may and must so widely diffuse itself,

were equally to wrong thy understanding and thy heart.
F. HENLEY.