SUSAN GREVILLE;

OR,

IRRESOLUTION.

A DOMESTIC STORY.

The slow sweet hours that bring us all things good,
The slow sad hours that bring us all things ill,
And all things good from evil.-

TENNYSON.

And is there aught on earth so rich and rare,
Whose pleasures may with virtue's pains compare
This fruit of patience-this the dear delight
That 'tis a trial in her Judge's sight.
Her part still striving duty to sustain,
Not spurning pleasure, not defying pain,
Never in triumph till her race is won,
And never fainting till her work be done.
CRABBE.

A MAN without decision can never be said to belong to himself since if he dared to assert that he did, the puny force of some cause about as powerful, you would have supposed, as a spider, may make a captive of the hapless boaster the very next moment, and triumphantly exhibit the futility of the determination by which he was to have proved the independence of his understanding and his will. He belongs to whatever can seize him, and innumerable things do actually verify their claim on him and arrest him as he tries to go along-as twigs and chips floating near the edge of a river are intercepted by every weed, and whirled in every little eddy.

FOSTER'S ESSAY ON DECISION OF CHARACTER.

In the progress of their discourse the Marquis of Montrose added, "that course of theirs (i.e. the Covenanters) ended not but in the king's death, and overturning the whole of the government." When one of the ministers answered, "that was a sectarian party that rose up and carried things beyond the first and true intent of them," he only said in reply, "error is infinite."

MONTROSE AND THE COVENANTERS.

SUSAN GREVILLE.

CHAPTER I.

For not the blameless life, nor artless youth,
Nor beauty's bloom, nor innocence, nor truth,
Can move that Mind mysterious whose dread power
Doth chastening rule our transitory hour,

And low doth lay the proud man's haughtiest boast,
And oft the brightest virtue tries the most.

ANON.

THE belief in luck and ill luck, that there are lucky and unlucky persons, is a belief from which the mind naturally revolts; and rightly revolts; for the affairs of the universe, and if of the universe, the affairs also of individuals, are not guided by chance, as even the heathen has taught us.

And yet this doctrine of luck and ill luck is incorrect only in the words by which it is ex