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A822.03 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 3. Text

desiring to see you; perhaps while I am here. Thank God! a fair riddance! Thank God! But is it possible, nephew, that you could bring me off for 150l. a year? Tell me truly. It is: and I tell your lordship, that it shall cost you no more, till you shall know how to value the comfort and happiness of your future life at more than 100l. a year: till then, the respect I pay to my mother's brother, and the regard I have for his honour, will make me cheerfully pay the 100l. a year in dispute, out of my

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A822.03 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 3. Text

precedent of disinterestedness in himself, as should excite an emulation in a proud spirit, which, if not then, must, when passion had subsided, have arisen, to make all end as it ought. When I found my lord'S joy a little moderated, I drew my chair near him. Well, my lord, and now as to your hints of marriage Blessed God! Why, nephew, you overturn me with your generosity. Are you not my next of kin? And can you give your consent, were I to ask it, that I should marry? I give you not only my consent

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A822.03 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 3. Text

happy alteration. When I took leave of them, she stood forward to receive my compliments, with a polite French freedom. I offered to press her hand with my lips: My brother's deliverer, said she, must not affect this distance, and, in a manner, offered her cheek; adding, God preserve my tutor wherever he sets his foot (and in English, God convert you too, chevalier!) May you never want such an agreeable friend as you have been to us! Signor Jeronymo was not able to be with us. I went up to take

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A822.03 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 3. Text

my heart tells me, that I may never be allowed to see her again. At this time it had better be deferred, Sir. If it must, I submit God for ever bless you, madam, for all your goodness! God restore to you your Clementina! May you all be happy! Time may do much for me! Time, and my own not disapproving conscience, may But a more unhappy man never passed your gates! I took the liberty to kiss her hand, and withdrew, with great emotion. Camilla hastened after me. Chevalier, says she, my lady asks if

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A822.03 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 3. Text

He might be converted, she said. And he was a sweet-tempered and compassionate man: and a man of sense as he was, must see his errors. Would she run the risque of her own salvation? She was sure she should never give up her faith. It was tempting God to abandon her to her own perverseness. Her reliance on his goodness to enable her to be stedfast, was humble, and not presumptuous, and with a pious view to gain a proselyte; and God would not forsake a person so well intending. Was she not to be

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can hear nothing to my satisfaction. Nor can you hear any-thing from me that will give you any. I am grieved at my soul, that I cannot. How, my lord, do the marquis and marchioness? Don't ask. They are extremely unhappy. I hear that my dear friend, Signor Jeronymo, has undergone A dreadful operation, interrupted the general. He has. Poor Jeronymo! He could not write to you. God preserve my brother! But, chevalier, you did not save half a life, though we thank you for that, when you restored him

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if you choose not to trouble him to do it: for this 100l. a year must be appropriated to your sole and separate use, madam; and not be subject to your controul, Major O'Hara. Good God! Sir! said the major What a wretch was I, the last time I was here! There is no bearing of this! He got up, and went to the window: and the captain said, Blessed Jesu! and something else, which I could not mind; for I was weeping like a baby. What, Sir, said my mother! 400l. a year! Do you mean so? I do, madam

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A822.04 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 4. Text

this for a compliment to his natural undistorted face, and instantly have pulled off the ugly mask of passion, and shewn his own? Lord G. You see, you see, the air, Miss Byron! How ludicrously does she now, even now Lady G. See, Miss Byron! How captious! Lord G. ought to have a turmagant wife: one who could return rage for rage. Meekness is my crime. I cannot be put out of temper. Meekness was never before attributed to woman as a fault. Lord G. Good God! Meekness! Good God! Lady G. But

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him. Strangely altered! Poor young man! And if as how you cannot, why then, God bless my daughter; that's all. And I do assure you, that you have our prayers every Lord's day, from the bottom of our hearts. And now, if you will keep a secret, I will tell it you; and yet, when I began, I did not intend it: the poor youth must not know I do. It is done in the singleness of our hearts; and if you think we mean to gain your love for us by it, I do assure you that yon wrong us. My nephew declares

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to myself, Surely the worthy man has not been there ever since! I twiched the string just in time: the coach stopt. Mr. Orme, said I. how do you? Well, I hope? How does Miss Orme? I had my hand on the coach-door. He snatched it. It was not an unwilling hand. He pressed it with his lips. God be praised, said he (with a countenance, O how altered for the better!) for permitting me once more to behold that face that angelic face, he said. God bless you, Mr. Orme! said I: I am glad to see you

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kind of forced politeness: We are all obliged to you, Sir, said he, for your Mr. Lowther. Are the surgeons of England so famous? But the people of your nation have been accustomed to give wounds: they should therefore furnish operators to heal them. We are obliged to you also for the trouble you have given yourself in coming over to us in person. Jeronymo has found a revival of spirits upon it: God grant they may not subside! But, alas! our sister! Poor Clementina! She is lost! Would to God

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Her hands held up, her fine eyes supplicating Pray, Sir, forgive me! Humour, humour the dear creature, chevalier, said her mother, sobbing. Forgive you, madam! Forgive you, dear lady! for what? You have not offended! You could not offend. I raised her; and, taking her hand, pressed it with my lips! Now, madam, forgive me For this freedom forgive me! O Sir, I have given you, I have given every-body, trouble! I am an unhappy creature; and God and you are angry with me And you will not say you

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turning reason, which sometimes seems to enliven my hope, if I were not to resolve, that it shall he wholly employed in my duty to God, and to you both! But even then, my gratitude to that generous man will leave a burden upon my heart, that never can be removed. She withdrew with precipitation, leaving the marchioness and me, in silence, looking upon each other, and admiring her. Camilla followed her; and instantly returning My dear young lady Don't be frightened, madam is not well. She seems

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mands. I was astonished at the contents. These are they*: O thou whom my heart best loveth, forgive me ! Forgive me, said I, for what? For aeting, if I am enabled to act, greatly? The example is from thee, who, in my eyes, art the greatest of human creatures. My duty calls upon me one way: my heart resists my duty, and tempts me not to perform it: do thou, O God, support me in the arduous struggle ! Let it not, as onee before, overthrow my reason; my but just-returning reason ! O God ! do thou

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God give you, Sir, and me too, case of mind. But I find my head overstrained. It is bound round as with a cord, I think, putting her hands to each side of it, for a moment You must leave me, Sir. But if you will see me to-morrow morning, and tell me, whither you intend to go, and what you intend to do, I shall be obliged to you. Cannot we talk together, Sir, as brother and sister? Or as tutor and pupil? Those were happy days! Let us try to recover them. She put her hand to her forehead, as

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a possibility of salvation out of its own pale. God forbid but it should The church of God, we hold, will be collected from the sincerely pious of all communions. Yet, I own, that had the intended honour been done me, I should have rejoiced that none but sons had blessed our nuptials. But how do your next words affect me Compassion, and love, say you, were equally, perhaps, your inducements Poor Clementina! add you. Inimitably great as what follows this is, I should have thought myself

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, and their whole family: and for a happy meeting to us all in England SUNDAY EVENING, if you please I will I could not speak out the sentence. She burst into tears; reclined her face on my shoulder her bosom heaved and she sobbed out Oh, chevalier! Must, must But be it Beit so! And God Almighty strengthen the minds of both! The marchioness, who was coming towards us, saw at distance the emotion of her beloved daughter, and fearing she was fainting, hastened to her, and clasping her armsabout

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, who had kept her seat Your ladyship, said I, gives me a very high pleasure, in the hope of seeing you, and your lord, a few months hence, in company with my Jeronymo. What a blessing is it to us all, that that dear friend is so well recovered! I have no doubt but change of climate, and our salutary springs, will do wonders for him. Let us, by our patience and resignation, entitle ourselves to greater blessings; the consequence, as I hope, of those we have already received. Please God, I will see

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But I have lost them all! Go thou in peace; and be happy! and God Almighty make me so! Adieu, dearest of men! She condescendingly inclined her cheek to me: I saluted her; but could not utter to her what yet was upon my lips to speak. She withdrew her hand. She seemed to want support. Her mother and sister hastened to her, I stopt at the door. Her eyes pursued my motions. By her uplifted hands she seemed praying for me. I was apprehensive of her fainting. I hastened towards her; but restraining

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by every tender act of duty, to comfort his mother-in-law on a deprivation, with which, I am afraid, she will soon be tried. My Beauchamp loves you, Sir Charles, said Sir Harry, at parting in the morning after breakfast; and so he ought. Wherever you are, he wants to be; but spare him to his mother and me for a few days: he is her comforter, and mine. Fain, very fain, would I have longer rejoiced, if God had seen fit, in the love of both. But I resign to the Divine will Pray for me: you also

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, I long for the arrival of the next letters from Italy. God grant that Lady Clementina hold her resolution, now that she sees it is almost impossible for her to avoid marrying! If she should relent, what would be the consequence, to my brother, to herself, to you! And how shall all we, his friends and yours, be affected! You think the lady is obliged, in duty to her parents, to marry. Lady L. and I are determined to be wise, and not give our opinions till the events which are yet in the bosom

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a late hour. Sir Charles, as Mr. Beauchamp and Dr. Bartlett have told us, was always happy in making by his equanimity, generosity, and forgivingness, fast friends of inveterate enemies. Thank God, the issue was not unhappy. Mr. Fenwick says, that the rencounter is very little guessed at, or talked of [Thank God for that, too!] and to those few, who have enquired of Mr. Greville or Mr. Fenwick about it, it has been denied; and, now Greville, as Mr. Fenwick had done before, declares he will

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me: and, by the great God of Heaven, I swear, it was my intention to be reformed, and to make her. if I could have had but her civility, though not her love, the best of husbands. Lord God of Heaven and Earth! what a happy man had I then been! Then had I never undertaken that damned expedition to France, of which I have repented ever since. Let your patron know how much I owe to him my unhappiness, and he will not, in justice, deny any reasonable, any honest request, that I shall make him

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only, I suppose, brought him over to me! I cannot bear that Yet snatching it from her, and reading, 'Beauty her least pefection' [Happy English lady!] 'Either in my eyes, or her own!' Have I not wished him such a woman? ' Had I never known Clementina!' How could I be so captious! 'Loves her with a flame as pure as the heart of Clementina' Thank you, chevalier! Indeed I have no impurity in my love My God only have I preferred to you: and I bless God for enabling me to give so due a preference

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nify? Lucy is gone down to shew him the anonymous writer's note. Dear, dear Sir! Lord of my wishes! forgive me all my petulance. Come safe God grant it! Come safe! And hand and heart I will be yours, if you require it, to-morrow morning! Here, Lady G. follows the copy of the alarming note. I broke the seal. It was thus directed: TO GEORGE SELBY ESQ. WITH SPEED, SPEED, SPEED HONOURED SIR, A very great respecter of one of the most generous and noblest of men (Sir Charles Grandison, I mean

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in white, chaplets of artificial flowers for head-dresses, large nosegays in their bosoms, white ribbands adorning their stays and their baskets; some streaming down, others tied round the handles in true lovers' knots; attended the company; two going before; the two others here and there, and every-where; all strewing flowers: a pretty thought of the tenants among themselves. Sir Charles seemed much pleased with them: Pretty dears he calls them, in their hearing. God bless you, and God bless

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sweet bride, on taking her hand, and saluting her, on the conclusion of the ceremony May God, my dearest life, said he, audibly, be gracious to your Grandison, as he will be good to his Harriet, now no more Byron! She courtesied low, and with so modest a grace, that every soul blessed her; and pronounced her the loveliest of women, and him the most graceful and polite of men. Mr. Selby invited Dr. Curtis to the wedding-dinner, and led Sir Charles's bride into the vestry. She was followed by

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said I, you now find, that apprehension will make one pious, as well as loving. My sister, my friend, my own, my Caroline's, my brother's, 'dear Lady Grandison! said I, when I Left her, near undressed, God bless you! And God be praised, that I can call you by these tender names! My brother is the happiest of men; you of women. May we never love each other less than we do now! Look forward to the serene happiness of your future lot. If you are the joy of our brother, you must be our joy, and

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me less kindly, madam. I cannot, cannot bear your good your goodness. On my knees I acknowledge my other guardian. God bless my dear, dear Lady Grandison! At that moment, as they were folded in each other's arms, entered my brother He clasped his round his sweet bride: Pardon this intrusion, said he Excellent creature, continue to love my Emily! Continue, my Emily, to deserve the sisterly love of my Harriet! Then turning to me, saluting me, My Charlotte loves my Harriet; so does our Caroline

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having added to the value he has for her: yet, loveliest of women, he called her; and, taking her hand, presented her to her grandmamma: Receive, and again bless, my angel, said he, best of parents! How lovely! But what is even all this amazing loveliness to the graces of her mind? They rise upon me every hour. She hardly opens her lips, but I find reason to bless God, and bless you both, my dear ladies: for God and you have given her goodness. My dearest life, allow me to say, that this sweet

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