incidents that had
preceded the departure of the young guest. Though she had rejected
Marmaduke's proffered love, his tone, so suddenly altered, his abrupt,
broken words and confusion, his farewell, so soon succeeding his
passionate declaration, could not fail to wound that pride of woman
which never sleeps till modesty is gone. But this made the least cause
of the profound humiliation which bowed down her spirit. The meaning
taunt conveyed in the rhyme of the tymbesteres pierced her to the quick;
the calm, indifferent smile of the stranger, as he regarded her, the
beauty of the dame he attended, woke mingled and contrary feelings, but
those of jealousy were perhaps the keenest: and in the midst of all she
started to ask herself if indeed she had suffered her vain thoughts to
dwell too tenderly upon one from whom the vast inequalities of human
life must divide her evermore. What to her was his indifference?
Nothing,--yet had she given worlds to banish that careless smile from
her remembrance.

Shrinking at last from the tyranny of thoughts till of late unknown, her
eye rested upon the gipsire which Alwyn had sent her by the old servant.
The sight restored to her the holy recollection of her father, the sweet
joy of having ministered to his wants. She put up the little treasure,
intending to devote it all to Warner; and after bathing her heavy eyes,
that no sorrow of hers might afflict the student, she passed with a
listless step into her father's chamber.

There is, to the quick and mercurial spirits of the young, something of
marvellous and preternatural in that life within life, which the strong
passion of science and genius forms and feeds,--that passion so much
stronger than love, and so much more self-dependent; which asks no
sympathy, leans on no kindred heart; which lives alone in its works and
fancies, like a god amidst his creations.

The philosopher, too, had experienced a great affliction since they met
last. In the pride of his heart he had designed to show Marmaduke the
mystic operations of his model, which had seemed that morning to open
into life; and when the young man was gone, and he made the experiment
alone, alas! he found that new progress but involved him in new
difficulties. He had gained the first steps in the gigantic creation
of modern days, and he was met by the obstacle that baffled so long the
great modern sage. There was the cylinder, there the boiler; yet, work
as he would, the steam fa