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THE DOUBLE LIFE .-- TREVYLYAN'S FATE .-- SORROW THE PARENT OF.
FAME .-- NIEDERLAHNSTEIN .-- DREAMS.
THERE are two lives to each of us, gliding on at the same time, scarcely connected with each other,--the life of our actions, the life of our minds; the external and the inward history; the movements of the frame, the deep and ever-restless workings of the heart! They who have loved know that there is a diary of the affections, which we might keep for years without having occasion even to touch upon the exterior surface of life, our busy occupations, the mechanical progress of our existence; yet by the last are we judged, the first is never known.

History reveals men's deeds, men's outward character, but _not themselves_.

There is a secret self that hath its own life "rounded by a dream," unpenetrated, unguessed.

What passed within Trevylyan, hour after hour, as he watched over the declining health of the only being in the world whom his proud heart had been ever destined to love?
His real record of the time was marked by every cloud upon Gertrude's brow, every smile of her countenance, every--the faintest--alteration in her disease; yet, to the outward seeming, all this vast current of varying eventful emotion lay dark and unconjectured.