Excerpt from Fiction Without Romance, Vol. 2 of 2: Or the Locket-Watch
To describe Eliza's feelings during her perusal of the foregoing, would indeed be a difficult task; various were the sensations, which oppressed her, and equally various were their effects. At times, she was so completely blinded by tears, as to be incapable of deciphering the characters before her, while at others, the acuteness of her sorrow, de prived her of the power of weeping. One moment she longed for the presence of the friend in whose sympathizing bosom she could repose her griefs, and in the next, a feeling to which she had hitherto been a stranger, took possession of her breast and made her wish that she could have hidden herself from all the world, even from Mrs. Wallace! Eliza felt herself an object for the finger of scorn to point at, and wished that the same grave had enclosed her mother and herself.
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