on the subject, and to dispel the gloom that hung about her ideas

concerning him, I could not succeed. Yet each foreign post-day she watched

for the arrival of letters--knew the post mark, and watched me as I read.

I found her often poring over the article of Greek intelligence in the

newspaper.

There is no more painful sight than that of untimely care in children, and

it was particularly observable in one whose disposition had heretofore been

mirthful. Yet there was so much sweetness and docility about Clara, that

your admiration was excited; and if the moods of mind are calculated to

paint the cheek with beauty, and endow motions with grace, surely her

contemplations must have been celestial; since every lineament was moulded

into loveliness, and her motions were more harmonious than the elegant

boundings of the fawns of her native forest. I sometimes expostulated with

Perdita on the subject of her reserve; but she rejected my counsels, while

her daughter's sensibility excited in her a tenderness still more

passionate.

After the lapse of more than a year, Adrian returned from Greece.

When our exiles had first arrived, a truce was in existence between the

Turks and Greeks; a truce that was as sleep to the mortal frame, signal of

renewed activity on waking. With the numerous soldiers of Asia, with all of

warlike stores, ships, and military engines, that wealth and power could

command, the Turks at once resolved to crush an enemy, which creeping on by

degrees, had from their stronghold in the Morea, acquired Thrace and

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