Excerpt from The Favourite of Nature, Vol. 3 of 3: A Tale
She was released from her engagement with Mortimer, and she was receiving the addresses of Mr. Waldegrave: and was she happy? Alas! no - happiness was still to be sought. It did not lie in the fulfilment of her wishes; for even as the affianced wife of Mr. Waldegrave, Eliza was unhappy.
The same restlessness of spirit haunted her still, and poisoned every prospect of happiness.
If, in her engagement with Mortimer, she had lamented her deficiency of affection for him, and had foreseen no possibility of passing her life happily with a person whom she only esteemed, she might now' (could she have sufficiently divested herself of passion to reason upon the case) have seen the still less probability of enjoying any permanent comfort in an union with one, whom she passionately loved, indeed, but with all the inconsistency and variation of feeling which commonly attend enthusiastic attachments.
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