RECORDS OF A HEART. 187 



Poor Marguerite ! in vain researches after philosophic truth 

 she sought refuge from the blighting sorrows of the heart. Her 

 tale is told : we know not, nay, we care not who was the object 

 of this deep affection ; it is enough for us that it was doomed 

 to disappointment. It is enough for us to learn from these 

 frail memorials that the life of a human heart was crushed 

 out, and the light of a human soul almost extinguished, by the 

 power of a passion, which the philosopher and the legislator, 

 no less than the coarse-minded sensualist, regard as a weakness 

 and an error. When will men learn that Love is as mighty as 

 Death ? 



