ABSTRACT
The lapse of days and weeks by no means contributed to reconcile Julian to his situation. He had before conceived a distaste to the manners and the house of Borromeo. Now, that his heart was made tender and sensitive by the grief that 241preyed on his vitals, the matter was rendered worse. The countenance of Borromeo was austere and repulsive; his speech was sharp and sailor-like, little accommodated to the ear of one brought up in all the elegance of refinement, less so of one whose organs were rendered delicate and morbid by the visitations of grief. The house of Borromeo was plain, and blank-looking, and gloomy. And to all these / disadvantages Julian now, his guardian and his father being no more, saw no termination.
