Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864

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Various. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864

ERNEST RENAN'S THEORY

ÆNONE: A TALE OF SLAVE LIFE IN ROME

CHAPTER VII

THE DOVE

THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND ITS PECULIARITIES

SKETCHES OF AMERICAN LIFE AND SCENERY

IV.—MOUNTAIN WAYS

THE MARCH OF LIFE

THOMAS DE QUINCEY AND HIS WRITINGS

'FEED MY LAMBS.'

PART FIRST

PART SECOND

PART THIRD

AN HOUR IN THE GALLERY OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN

THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION

APHORISMS. NO. V

THE UNKIND WORD

LANGUAGE A TYPE OF THE UNIVERSE

APHORISMS.—NO. VI

AN ARMY: ITS ORGANIZATION AND MOVEMENTS

SLEEPING

DR. FOX'S PRESCRIPTION

LITERARY NOTICES

EDITOR'S TABLE

THE METROPOLITAN FAIR

KNOUT, PLETE, AND GANTLET

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For an instant only. When from Ænone's troubled gaze, the half-blinding film which the agitation of her apprehensive mind had gathered there, passed away, she no longer saw before her a proudly erect figure, flashing out from dark, wild eyes its defiant mastery, but a form again bent low in timorous supplication, and features once more overspread with a mingled imprint of sorrowful resignation, trusting devotion, and pleading humility.

That gleam of malicious triumph which had so brightened up the face of the slave, had come and gone like the lightning flash, and, for the moment, Ænone was almost inclined to believe that it was some bewildering waking dream. But her instinct told her that it was no mere imagination or fancy which could thus, at one instant, fill the heart with dread and change her bright anticipations of coming joy into a dull, aching foreboding of misery. It was rather her inner nature warning her not to be too easily ensnared, but to wait for coming evil with unfaltering watchfulness, and, for the purpose of baffling enmity, to perform the hardest task that can be imposed upon a guileless nature—that of repressing all outward sign of distrust, hiding the torture of the heart within, and meeting smile with smile.

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'But before that—before I came to you—can you say that no other eyes had ever looked lovingly into yours, and there met kindred response?'

'Have you the right to inquire into what may have happened before you met me? What young girl is there who, some time or other, has not modestly let her thoughts dwell upon innocent love? Is there wrong in this? Should there have been a spirit of prescience in my mind to forewarn me that I must keep my heart free and in vacant loneliness, because that, after many years, you were to come and lift me from my obscurity?'

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