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MARRIAGE A LA MODE, 37
riod to her misery, she takes the horrid resolu-
tion of ending all her calamities by poison.
------" Dreadful deed, unbidden thus
" To rush into tlie presence of her judge,
■ " And chalienge vengeance. 'Tis said
" Unheard-of tortures are rcserv'd
, " For murderers of themselves. They herd together:
" The common damn'd shun their society
'* As fiends too foul for converse."------
Dreadful as is this resolve, she'puts it in exe-
cution by bribing her father's servant to procure
a dose of laudanum. Close to the vial, which lies
on the floor, Hogarth has judiciously placed Coun-
sellor SUverlongue's last dying speech, thus inti-
mating that he also has received the punishment
so justly merited.* The records of their fate be-
ing thus situated, seems to imply that as they were
united in vice, they are companions in its conse-
quences. These two terrific and monitory testi-
monies, arc a kind of propiatory sacrifice to the
Wanes of her injured and murdered lord.
Her avaricious father seeing his daughter at the
point of death, and knowing the value of her dia-
mond ring, determined to secure this glittering
gem from the depredations of an old nurse, coolly
draws it from her finger. This little circumstance
shews a prominent feature of his mind. Every
sense of feeling absorbed in extreme avarice, he
* " If he do not become a cart as well as another man,
' —a p'ague on his bringing up!"
riod to her misery, she takes the horrid resolu-
tion of ending all her calamities by poison.
------" Dreadful deed, unbidden thus
" To rush into tlie presence of her judge,
■ " And chalienge vengeance. 'Tis said
" Unheard-of tortures are rcserv'd
, " For murderers of themselves. They herd together:
" The common damn'd shun their society
'* As fiends too foul for converse."------
Dreadful as is this resolve, she'puts it in exe-
cution by bribing her father's servant to procure
a dose of laudanum. Close to the vial, which lies
on the floor, Hogarth has judiciously placed Coun-
sellor SUverlongue's last dying speech, thus inti-
mating that he also has received the punishment
so justly merited.* The records of their fate be-
ing thus situated, seems to imply that as they were
united in vice, they are companions in its conse-
quences. These two terrific and monitory testi-
monies, arc a kind of propiatory sacrifice to the
Wanes of her injured and murdered lord.
Her avaricious father seeing his daughter at the
point of death, and knowing the value of her dia-
mond ring, determined to secure this glittering
gem from the depredations of an old nurse, coolly
draws it from her finger. This little circumstance
shews a prominent feature of his mind. Every
sense of feeling absorbed in extreme avarice, he
* " If he do not become a cart as well as another man,
' —a p'ague on his bringing up!"