ABSTRACT
The death of Lady Adelina Stanley, though not sudden, was a severe blow to her husband: he had permitted himself to be deluded by the attering voice of hope, that when she became a mother, her health would be restored: he had then sketched for himself a plan of happiness which, if it could have been realised, would have le him nothing to wish for in this world. ough he had/ uniformly treated her with the tenderness which gratitude and esteem for her amiable qualities demanded, yet he accused himself of not having loved her with that entire a ection she merited, and which he then felt towards her. He longed ardently for her recovery, that he might, by his increased kindness and attention, convince her she possessed his heart wholly and undivided: that it was not anxiety alone for her illness which dictated his present solicitude for her, in common with all the rest of her friends, but that it was love, pure, unsophisticated love, which her virtues had inspired.
