on her surviving son and daughter! And are
they not worthy of such a mother?

Mr. Aubrey is in his thirty-fourth year; and inherits the mental
qualities of both his parents--the demeanor and person of his father. He
has a reserve which is not cynical, but only diffident; yet it gives
him, at least at first sight, and till you have become familiar with his
features, which are of a cast at once refined and aristocratic, yet full
of goodness--an air of hauteur, which is very--very far from his real
nature. He has in truth the soft heart and benignant temper of his
mother, joined with the masculine firmness of character which belonged
to his father; which, however, is in danger of being seriously impaired
by _inaction_. Sensitive he is, perhaps to a fault. There is a tone of
melancholy in his composition, which has probably increased upon him
from his severe studies, ever since his youth. He is a man of superior
intellect; a capital scholar; took the highest honor at Oxford: and has
since justified the expectations which were then entertained of him. He
has made several really valuable contributions to historic
literature--indeed, I think he is even now engaged upon some researches
calculated to throw much light upon the obscure origin of several of our
political institutions. He has entered upon _politics_ with
uncommon--perhaps with an excessive--ardor. I think he is likely to make
an eminent figure in Parliament; for he is a man of very clear head,
very patient, of business-like habits, ready in debate, and, moreover,
has at once an impressive and engaging delivery as a public speaker. He
is generous and charitable as his admirable mother, and careless, even
to a fault, of his pecuniary interests. He is a man of perfect
simplicity and purity of character. Above all, his virtues are the
virtues which have been sublimed by Christianity--as it were, the cold
embers of morality warmed into religion. He stands happily equidistant
from infidelity and fanaticism. He has looked for light from above, and
has heard a voice saying, "_This_ is the way, walk thou in it." His
piety is the real source of that happy consistent dignity, and content,
and firmness, which have earned him the respect of all who know him, and
will bear him through whatever may befall him. He who standeth upon this
rock cannot be moved, perhaps not even touched, by the surges of worldly
reverses--of difficulty and distress! In manner Mr. Aubrey is calm and
gen