Charlotte Smith

“ Instead, however, of hearing from him such sentences of consolation as are usually administered, instead of being advised to have fortitude and patience, and recommended to submit to inevitable evils, Walsingham sat down and wept with her, and, without trying to check a sensibility, which most men would have blushed at as a weakness, he seemed to seize the opportunity of deploring anew his own misfortunes; though unconscious that Rosalie lamented the death of a mother, he thought the loss of the friend of her early youth was a calamity great enough to justify the sorrow she expressed. ”

“ Violent paroxysms of grief are seldom mitigated by common-place arguments. Walsingham therefore acted, perhaps, more kindly, in yielding to, rather than in resisting, the first expressions of agonising sorrow. They subsided, and, though the tears stole slowly down her cheeks as she spoke, yet Rosalie was sufficiently composed to consult with Walsingham on the steps she had to take.
No possible channel of hearing from Montalbert occurred to her; she knew not whither to address herself to Charles Vyvian, or whether he was in England ”

“ The solitary man having escaped the tempest, ventures forth from his cave!—he heard, amid the whirlwinds of the night, the cries of the wretch driven on the inhospitable coast, then he could not save them!—but he now looks along the beach for their said remains ”

“ They hardly spoke during their walk, except that Rosalie, observing the heavy cloud that hung over the sun, now sinking westward, inquired of Walsingham, if he did not think there would be a thunder storm?—He answered, certainly not; and they proceeded still silently, for neither were disposed for conversation.
About half a mile to the eastward of their descent they reached that stupendous sea mark, the high cliff called Beachy Head, which is seen half channel over, and is the first land made in crossing from the opposite coast. ”

“ Vyvian's death could have affected Miss Rose——that is Mrs. - - - - -Mrs. Montalbert I mean, in such a manner, or I should have spoke on't more cautiously; but some people are so nervous.—Come, dear Ma'am, cheer up:—why have a little more philosophy—we must all die....The poor lady, you know, had been for a long time in a declining way!"
Rosalie, to whom every word was as a dagger, now arose, and saying she felt herself too ill to remain below, wished Blagham a good morning, and tried to add her love to his wife, with some other of these common-place sayings, that express much and mean nothing ”

“ I am a miserable being to-night, and fit for nothing that belongs to science, or perhaps to reason. But as there are cold unfeeling mortals, who say, and perhaps truly, that poetry has nothing to do with either, I may possible be the better disposed to read to you what I once wrote, not many miles from this part of the coast of Suffex. ”

“ Jane would have told more had she known it, but her intelligence went no farther beyond this, than that "Madam came from foreign parts;" for Waters, who was both sensible and faithful, had adhered punctiliously to his master's strict injunctions, and had never mentioned more of him than his name and his fortune. ”

“ Walsingham, (cried Rosalie shuddering) , forbear to draw such images of horror!"—"I will forbear, (answered he) , if they distress you, Mrs. Montalbert, but to me they present not images of horror........Ah! no—at this moment I envy those who are dead ”