By Mary Cowden Clarke
Mary Cowden Clarke (1809-98) was once the daughter of the writer Vincent Novello. She produced a whole concordance to Shakespeare's works in 1845, and her fascination with the performs ended in her publishing in 1850 a sequence of innovative bills of the girlhood of a few of his heroines. Her intent was once 'to think the potential conditions and impacts of scene, occasion, and affiliate, surrounding the child lifetime of his heroines, which would have conduced to originate and foster these germs of personality regarded of their adulthood as by way of him built; to conjecture what could have been the 1st imperfect dawnings of that which he has proven us within the meridian blaze of perfection'. those 'prequels' supply a back-story that's mind-blowing in its subversive interpretation of the performs and particularly of the position of the 'hero'. quantity 1 contains the tales of Portia and girl Macbeth.
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So long since our early meal, too! I neglected to bid Madame Ursula provide us with refreshment, though I ought to have known we should be detained beyond our usual hour of return! Unpardonable folly 1 You are ill, carina! " The moon had now risen, and revealed to the young Count the gentle white face that leaned for a few moments against Bellario's shoulder; but her brother's affectionate support, and cheering words of encouragement, with, still more, the torrent of reproaches which Guido continued to pour forth upon his own heedlessness, enabled her to rally, and she assured them she was quite recovered, and equal to proceed.
In the course of some months more, a period of vacation occurred, and the bachelor-uncle looked forward with absolute pleasure to the thought of spending some time with a mere child; the grave lawyer had learned to love nothing in the world so well as his little Portia. She was now not merely the child of his sister and friend, she had become a joy in herself. And the little creature repaid his love with a fondness singularly intense in one so young. She seemed to have inherited her father's ardour of dis- 36 PORTIA ; position, with much of her mother's gentle sweetness.
It is because your hearts generally take too active a part in any cause 52 PORTIA ; you desire to win,, that your sex would make but poor lawyers, carina. Besides, women, though shrewd and quick judging, are apt to jump too rapidly at conclusions, and mar the power of their understanding by its too vivacious action. They are liable to decide upon delusive inferences, and to arrive at false convictions. In the exercise of their discernment, they will frequently triumph too early in the discovery of an advantage ; and it is the part of a clever lawyer not to betray his own strength and his adversary's weakness too soon.