HANNAH MORE, and this feeling of admiration was confirmed by a graceful compliment on her part. Being a fluent versifier, she was constantly in the habit of selecting trifling incidents, connected with her friends, and inditing stanzas on them. In the beautiful grounds of Belmont there happened to be a rock, curiously marked with red sand-stone ; and Hannah made this the subject of a charming allegorical poem, which she entitled " The Bleeding Rock." The many fascinations of his graceful young guest render it not a matter of any surprise that Mr. Turner should have desired to make her mistress of the extensive grounds whose beauties she had begun to celebrate ; and he offered the youthful minstrel his hand and heart. As he was not only a man of large fortune, but had a generous disposition and a sensible mind, she accepted his proposal; and their wedding day was fixed. Hannah accordingly relinquished her share in her sisters' school, and went to great expense preparing and fitting herself to be the wife of a man of Mr. Turner's rank, who had carriages, horses, servants, and all the attendant luxuries of wealth. Unfortu- nately, Mr. Turner did not possess that essential requisite for happiness in either the single or the married state-an equal temper. He was apparently conscious of this defect, for, just before the appointed day, he unexpectedly caused his marriage to be postponed. Again and again, during a period of six years, 1
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