The Manatitlans: or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A.Smile, R. Elton
Science
The Manatitlans: or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A.
Smile, R. Elton
Science fiction, American
“_Carrissimus_, acting upon the information received with advice from
the Dosch and his advisers, and your own confidence imparted to my step-
daughter, Correliana Adinope, affording verification of our own
observations, that there exists a unity of attachment between you and
her twin sister Luocuratia, we offer you with unspeakable gladness our
joyful congratulations, with the sum of our united affection. In
bestowing our fullest sanction, we are truly happy in being able to
contribute, from our Heraclean resources, the means of perfecting our
ties of grateful reciprocation, and rejoice that we have achieved the
privilege of calling you by the endearing name of son, as you were in
anticipation wedded to our affection. In accepting our daughter for the
cultivation and solace of mutual affection, you will have our assurance
of her enduring devotion, which no mischance can abate; for with her the
animus of goodness exceeds in thoughtful intention the power of
expression. In her affection you will find an allied support all-
sufficient for happy sustenance, and in its overplus an index of the
homage outflowing in reciprocation from every Heraclean. In conformity
with the happy experience of our ancestors, we herewith, in addition to
our verbal invitation, proffer the formality of script, with the desire
that you will become a member of our household, in domiciliation, during
the three months allotted for probationary exemplification of
congeniality in habits necessary for unity in affectionate
reciprocation. Luocuratia will return to gladden our colonnades at the
approach of noontide, then with your presence our joy will overflow in
thanksgiving to the Source of direction, that devised the achievement of
our deliverance through your instrumentality.
ADESTUS.”
Correliana, while reading her father’s script welcome, watched with keen
interest its effect, and was recompensed to an extent exceeding her
expectations, by the warmth made manifest from the grateful emotions of
the respondent. Fully satisfied with his relief from the sensitive
reproaches of his disposition, for thoughtful diversion from his waiting
suspense, she appealed to the Doschessa for encouragement in behalf of
her meditated mission for the colonistic establishment of schools for
the educational intuition of self-legislation, among the civilized Giga
races. “Have you, in your auramental experience, which enables you to
reach and advise the thoughts of Giga women, found them all so abjectly
subservient to the trammels of society and its fashionable tyrannies?”
_Doschessa._ “The exceptions are simply modified, all worship at the
same shrine of thoughtless fatuity, with a heedless tendency for the
utter extinction of purity and goodness.”
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