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DIARY AND NOTES OF HORACE TEMPLETON, Esq.
DIARY AND NOTES HORACE TEMPLETON, Esq.
Author Of "Harry Lorrequer," "Knight Of Gwynne," Etc. Etc.
Second Edition.
London: Chapman And Hall, 186 Strand.
HORACE TEMPLETON.
It is a strange thing to begin a "Log" when the voyage is nigh ended! A voyage without chart or compass has it been: and now is land in sight--the land of the weary and heart-tired!
Terrific and heart-stirring as the death-bed scenes are, they are not true to nature: the vice and the virtue are alike exaggerated. Few, very few persons can bring themselves by an effort to believe that they are dying--easy as it seems, often as we talk of it, frequent as the very expression becomes in a colloquialism, it is still a most difficult process; but once thoroughly felt, there is an engrossing power, in the thought that excludes all others.'
At times, indeed, Hope will triumph for a brief interval, and "tell of bright days to come." Hope! the glorious phantom that we follow up the Rhine--through the deep glens of the Tyrol, and over the Alps!--Only content to die when we have lost it!
There are men to whom the truth, however shocking, is always revealed--to whom the Lawyer says, "You have no case," and the Physician confesses, "You have no constitution." Happily or unhappily--I will not deny it may be both--I am one of these. Of the three doctors summoned to consult on my health, one spoke confidently and cheeringly; he even assumed that kind of professional jocularity that would imply, "the patient is making too much of it." The second, more reserved from temperament, and graver, counselled caution and great care--hinted at the danger of the malady--coupling his fears with the hopes he derived from the prospect of climate. The third closed the door after them, and resumed his seat.
He blushed deeply before he could answer. He felt ashamed that he had failed in one great requisite of his art. I hastened to relieve him, by saying with a joyous air, "Well, I will go. I like the notion myself; it is at least a truce with physic. It is like drawing a game before one has completely lost it."
And so here I am--somewhat wearied and fevered by the unaccustomed exertion, but less so than I expected.
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