[Footnote 122: "I felt, in this near prospect of death (says Mr. Shelley), a mixture of sensations, among which terror entered, though but subordinately. My feelings would have been less painful had I been alone; but I knew that my companion would have attempted to save me, and I was overcome with humiliation, when I thought that his life might have been risked to preserve mine. When we arrived at St. Gingoux, the inhabitants, who stood on the shore, unaccustomed to see a vessel as frail as ours, and fearing to venture at all on such a sea, exchanged looks of wonder and congratulation with our boatmen, who, as well as ourselves, were well pleased to set foot on shore."] [Footnote 123: In the account of this visit to Copet in his Memoranda, he spoke in high terms of the daughter of his hostess, the present Duchess de Broglie, and, in noticing how much she appeared to be attached to her husband, remarked that "Nothing was more pleasing than to see the developement of the domestic affections in a very young woman." Of Madame de Stael, in that Memoir, he spoke thus:--"Madame de Stael was a good woman at heart and the cleverest at bottom, but spoilt by a wish to be--she knew not what. In her own house she was amiable; in any other person's, you wished her gone, and in her own again."] [Footnote 124: Upon the same occasion, indeed, he wrote some verses in a spirit not quite so generous, of which a few of the opening lines is all I shall give:-- "And thou wert sad--yet I was not with thee! And thou wert sick--and yet I was not near. Methought that Joy and Health alone could be Where I was _not_, and pain and sorrow here. And is it thus?--it is as I foretold, And shall be more so:--" &c. &c. ] * * * * * "EXTRACT FROM AN UNPUBLISHED POEM.