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The motto for Chapter VI is misquoted from Iliad XXIII 72; it has been left as printed.

MELMOTH THE WANDERER: A TALE.

MELMOTH

BY THE AUTHOR OF “BERTRAM,” &c.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY, AND HURST, ROBINSON, AND CO. CHEAPSIDE, LONDON.

EDINBURGH:

1820.

MELMOTH.

CHAPTER VI.

When, after some days interval, the Spaniard attempted to describe his feelings on the receipt of his brother’s letter, the sudden resuscitation of heart, and hope, and existence, that followed its perusal, he trembled,—uttered some inarticulate sounds;—wept;—and his agitation appeared to Melmoth, with his uncontinental feelings, so violent, that he entreated him to spare the description of his feelings, and proceed with his narrative.

When

“You are right,” said the Spaniard, drying his tears, “joy is a convulsion, but grief is a habit, 

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