Excerpt from The Old Countess, or the Two Proposals

These feelings rose up like a barrier between him and his Sister. Her in¿uence over his youth had been so powerful that his own better nature never might have asserted itself but for the tragedy which followed his first plunge into deception and wrong-doing. He loved this beautiful young woman yet, as few brothers of any age or class ever did, but the Shock of that tragedy was on him, and his impulse was to ¿ee from her and the man for whose sake all this trouble had come.

Hepworth 01038 was not the first youth whose life has Opened with evil thoughts and evil deeds, from which his manhood shrank appalled.

The unformed intellect and quick passions of youth have wrecked many a noble soul, by the sin of an hour or a day, beyond the redemption of a toiling and regretful after-life. The man who does redeem himself must have a powerful nature, which will force its strength to be recognized, and make its regeneration felt. But to the sins of youth much should be forgiven, which, in the mature man, justice might utterly condemn.

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