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EARLY LOVE.
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“ New hopes may bloom—new days may come,
With milder, calmer beams
But there's nothing half so sweet in iife
E A R L Y L O V E.
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Never, perhaps, were the vivifying and sti-
mulating effects of happy love more strikingly
displayed than in the person of Eustace
Bentinck. At an early age death had broke
up all the tender and endearing relationships,
whose society and sympathy constitute the
first blessings of life; and in his twenty-first
year though he was rich in the gifts of for-
tune and the luxuries of elevated rank, he
was a bankrupt in hope and domestic felicity,
and destitute of those treasures which the
wealth of kingdoms could not replace. He
dragged on' an irksome and isolated exist-
ence— a prey to the most gloomy recollec-
tions—a burthen to himself, and a source of
anxious uneasiness to those around him. A
