I was so oppressed by such unexpected kindness, that sleep fled before my eyes."] [Footnote 202: 'Transformation, or Monte Beni.'] [Footnote 203: 'Portraits Contemporains,' iii.

519.] [Footnote 204: Mr.Arthur Helps, in one of his Essays, has wisely said: "You observe a man becoming day by day richer, or advancing in station, or increasing in professional reputation, and you set him down as a successful man in life.

But if his home is an ill-regulated one, where no links of affection extend throughout the family--whose former domestics [20and he has had more of them than he can well remember] look back upon their sojourn with him as one unblessed by kind words or deeds--I contend that that man has not been successful.

Whatever good fortune he may have in the world, it is to be remembered that he has always left one important fortress untaken behind him.

That man's life does not surely read well whose benevolence has found no central home.
It may have sent forth rays in various directions, but there should have been a warm focus of love--that home-nest which is formed round a good mans heart."-- CLAIMS OF LABOUR.] [Footnote 205: "The red heart sends all its instincts up to the white brain, to be analysed, chilled, blanched, and so become pure reason--which is just exactly what we do NOT want of women as women.