They are one and the same, said every heart that gazed upon them. Reader, they were! For the “Night” was also a portrait, and the last work of Martin Gray!

Alas! alas! sweet Alice! splendid and courted Alice! wretched and ruined Alice!


THE MISANTHROPE.

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BY A NEW CONTRIBUTOR.

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Speak no more!

Thou canst not comfort me. I’d rather hear

The serpent’s hiss than speech from a false heart.