CHAPTER XIV.
"Musing full sadly in his sullen mind."-- SPENSER.
"There forth issued from under the altar-smoke A dreadful fiend."-- _Ibid.

on Superstition_.
NINE times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from Youth to Manhood.

That interval is usually occupied by an ill-placed or disappointed affection.

We recover, and we find ourselves a new being.

The intellect has been hardened by the fire through which it has passed.