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THE NAVAL OFFICER.
CHAPTER II.
Injuries may be atoned for and forgiven; but insults admit of no compensation. They degrade the mind in its own esteem, and force it to recover its level by revenge.
Junius.
There are certain events in our lives poetitically and beautifully described by Moore, as "green spots in memory's waste." Such are the emotions arising from the attainment, after a long pursuit, of any darling object of love or ambition; and although possession and subsequent events may have proved to us that we had over-rated our enjoyment, and experience have shewn us "that all is vanity," still, recollection dwells with pleasure upon the beating
