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TO HORACE SMITH, ESQ. 159
attraction consists in this very consciousness
we are made to feel of the vicinity of a soul.
Emotion betrays itself with a readiness and
truth that warms
the sympathies at once.
AU the Hght and shade of thought and
feeHng beam from the countenance, and he
who speaks—whether it be to breathe the
words of genius, of wisdom, of sorrow, or of
love—realises every instant that it is not to
mere intellect that he unfolds himself, but to
a
sympathetic being, capable not only of
understanding but of responding.
This expressiveness—quick,
confiding, and
free—
gives life and reaHty to form and feature.
Eye
and Hp, tone and gesture, smile and
glance, are all beautiful, simply because they
are informed with graceful and earnest
meaning, as through an exquisite vase of
alabaster glows the flame that is kindled
within.
I must conclude my letter.
I have only