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Italian friends, it will always be with tender blessings, and the most affectionate gratitude. Allow me, Olivia, to number you with the dearest of those friends. Your honour, your welfare, present and future, is, and ever will be, the object of my vows. God and nature have done their parts by you: let not your own be wanting. To what purpose live we, if not to grow wiser, and to subdue our passions? Dear lady! Illustrious woman! How often have you been subdued by the violence of yours; and to what

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Grandison think me punctilious? But you will permit me to write to Miss Jervois myself and acquaint her with her granted wish, if If! No if madam Whatever you think right to be done, in this case, that do. Emily will be more particularly your ward than mine, if you condescend to take the trust upon you. You will be pleased, dear Lady G. to acquaint Emily with the grant of her wish: she will rejoice. God give the dear creature reason for joy; and then I shall have double pleasure in having contributed

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Good God! Good God! He gushed into tears. He ran into the house to hide his emotion; but in vain: Forgive me, said he, forgive me, Sir John! (who just then came in from taking leave of his noble guest) but there is no bearing this man's magnanimity! He is all I have heard of him. Happy, happy Miss Byron! No man but this could deserve her. But where is he? rising: I will ask his pardon for my abrupt departure from him. He is gone, answered Sir John. I saw him in his chariot! Good Mr. Orme! he

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intended dispensation, and come to town for three whole months, without repeating to her, by word of mouth, my love and my sympathizing concern for her. What merit does her patience add to her other merits! How has her calamity endeared her to me! If ever I shall be heavily afflicted, God give me her amiable, her almost meritorious patience in sufferings! To my cousin Holles's, and all my other relations, friends, companions, make the affectionate compliments of your HARRIET BYRON. LETTER V

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, interrupted she I wish I had not been at Florence. The lady I was with, is a good woman; but she was too hard for me. Perhaps (and she sighed) had I not been with her, I had been at rest, and happy, before now; but if I had not, there is a pleasure, as well as pain, in melancholy. But now I am so fretful! If I hated the bitterest enemy I have, as much as at times I hate myself, I should be a very bad creature. This was spoken with an air so melancholy, as greatly disturbed me. God grant

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indisposed. No wonder. Visited by the marquis and marchioness, you see: not a slight illness, therefore, you may believe. God preserve him, and restore Lady Clementina, and the worthy Jeronymo! His kind remembrance of me But, my dear, I think the doctor and you must forbear obliging me with any more of his letters His goodness, his tenderness, his delicacy, his strict honour, but adds Yet can any new instances add to a character so uniformly good? But the chief reason of my selfdenial, if you were to

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.] Grosvenor Square, Monday, August 7. GOOD God, my dear! I dispatch a parquet to you; received a few hours ago, from Dr. Bartlett, with desire of forwarding it to you. My sister was with me. We read the letters together. I dispatch them by an express messenger; What shall we say? Tell me, Harriet. More suspense still. Dear crea [page] 21

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uncle says, he cannot be a true spirit; witness his compromise with Fenwick, after a rencounter, which, being reported to be on my account, had like to have killed me at the time. And if not a true sprit, may he not be treacherous! God preserve our brother from all secret as well as open attacks! And do you, my dear ladies, forgive the tender folly of your HARRIET BYRON [page] 22

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he can take one's heart, and say never a word. Hay, Harriet! looking archly. Mr. Deane is come In charming health and spirits Thank God! With what cordiality did Sir Charles and he embrace each other! Sir Charles attended my grandmamma home: so we had not his company at supper. No convenience without its contrary. He is her own son: she is his own parent. Such an unaffected love, on both sides! Such a sweetly-easy, yet respectful familiarity between them! What additional pleasures must a young

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out broken cisterns that hold no water; a world in which even they, whose hands are mighty, have found nothing. There is nothing, Lord God Almighty, in heaven, in earth, but Thee. I will seek thy face, bless thy name, sing thy praises, love thy law, do thy will, enjoy thy peace, hope thy glory, till my final hour! Thus shall I grasp all that can be grasped by man. This will heighten good, and soften evil, in the present life! And when death summons, I shall sleep sweetly in the dust, till his

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new-taken house in Grosvenor Square, which was before in great forwardness, and to have it well aired for the reception of his noble friends. He will acquaint his sisters with his further intentions, as occasions arise. God succeed to him his own wishes He may be trusted with them. Adieu, my dearest sisters! How proud am I, that I can indeed call you so, by the name of HARRIET GRANDISON! LETTER XIX. SIR CHARLES GRANDISON TO LADY GRANDISON. St. James's Square, Thursday, February 15. MY DEAREST

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the first of the friendly company that withdrew. Lady G. it seems, was all alive in every part of the entertainment. My uncle Selby and she spared not each other. Her lord, I fancy, fared the better for the presence of the earl and Lady Gertrude, and for her having my uncle to shoot at. God preserve my grandmamma, and all my dear friends in her neighbourhood, prays Her ever dutiful HARRIET GRANDISON. LETTER XXXII. LADY GRANDISON. IN CONTINUATION. Wednesday, March 7. OUR grief will be your joy, my

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example! Sir Charles Grandison's love is a love to be gloried in. Magnanimity and tenderness are united in his noble heart. Littleness of any kind has no place in it: all that know him are studious to commend themselves to his favourable opinion; solicitous about what he will think of them; and, suppressing common foibles before him, find their hearts expand, nor know how to be mean. O my God! do thou make me thankful for such a friend, protector, director, husband! Increase with my gratitude

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me, I dare say. Nor will you think me either perverse or ungenerous, when he tells you what has passed between us. Have you given him hope, then? God grant it, though but distant hope! Have you said you will consider Dear, blessed lady! O Sir, interrupted I, how good you are to your nephew! How worthily is your love placed on him! What a proof is it of his merit, and of the goodness of your heart! I shall always have an esteem for you both! Your excuse, Sir Rowland: yours, Mr. Fowler. Be so good

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before I can appear. Excuse me, Sir (withdrawing); but I hope you will breakfast with us. I will drink tea with you, madam, if I can make myself fit to be seen, were it but to claim you for my daughter: but yet had much rather you would be a farther remove in relation: would to God you would let it be niece! I courtesied, as a daughter might do, parting with her real father; and withdrew. And now, my Lucy, will you not be convinced that one of the greatest pains (the loss of dear friends

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grave had the least hope, by the great God of heaven, I would pronounce his days numbered. I am but too well acquainted with your rashness, Mr. Greville. What formerly passed between you and another gentleman, gave me pain enough. In such an enterprise your own days might be numbered as well as another's. But I enter not into this subject Henceforth be so good as not to impute incivility to me, if I deny myself to your visits. I would have withdrawn Dear Miss Byron (stepping between me and the

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proceed; not doubting but we should find her got home before us. We had before agreed to be carried directly home: declining Lady Betty's invitation to resume our own dresses at her house, where we dressed for the ball. We were very much surprised at finding her not arrived: but concluding, that, by mistake, she was carried to Lady Betty's, and was there expecting us, we sent thither immediately. But, good God! what was our consternation, when the servants brought us word back, that Lady Betty

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at home. They proceeded with her, saying, they had indeed mistaken their way; but they were just there, and hurried on. She then undrew the side-curtains Good God of heaven protect me! they heard her say I am in the midst of fields They were then at Lissom Green. They heard her pray; and Macpherson said, he began then to conclude, that the lady was too much frightened, and too pious to be in a love-plot. But, nevertheless, beckoned by their villanous guide, they hurried on: and then she screamed

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story, on mentioning the villain's name by whom she has suffered. She could give only broken and imperfect accounts of herself all day yesterday, or you had heard from me sooner. When you see her, you must be very cautious of what you say to her. We have a skilful physician, by whose advice we proceed. God for ever bless you, madam! He has not long left her. He advises quiet. She has had a very bad night. Could she compose herself, could she get a little natural rest, the cure is performed. Have

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too low, and too weak, to be troubled with questions now. Johnson will be back from Windsor. Let him take her commands to any of her friends. Adieu, dear madam [Your cousin, Sir, seemed likely to faint again] Support yourself. Repeating, You are in safe and honourable hands; bowing to her, as she bowed in return, but spoke not Adieu, Charlotte; and away went the best of brothers. And God Almighty bless him, said I, wherever he goes! Miss Grandison then told me, that the house I was in belonged

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I long to have Miss Byron's account of this horrid affair. God grant, that it may not be such a one, as will lay us under a necessity But as our cousin has a great notion of female delicacy I know not what I would say We must have patience a little while longer. Miss Grandison's eyes shone with pleasure all the time her brother was giving his relation. I can only say, brother, said she, when he had done, that you have rescued an angel of a woman; and you have made me as happy by it, as

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mother and two daughters. The mother answered, You are not in bad hands. God grant you say truth! said I. No harm is intended you; only to make you one [page] 22

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, call to the gentlewomen, Sir Retire, Sir. Let me have my own sex only about me. My head swam: my eyes failed me; and I fainted quite away. LETTER XXXII. MISS BYRON. IN CONTINUATION. I UNDERSTOOD afterwards that he was in the most dreadful consternation. He had fastened the door upon me and himself; and for a few moments was not enough present to himself to open it. Yet crying out upon his God to have mercy upon him, and running about the room, the women hastily rapped [page] 23

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frightful stories of the vile enterprizes of men, against innocent creatures; and will therefore call to mind stories which have concluded much worse than, blessed be God, mine has done. Just now I have received a congratulatory pacquet of letters: One from my aunt Selby, such a sweetly kind, such a truly maternal letter! One from my dearest grandmamma. I will put it next my heart, whenever I feel there any of that pain, of which she is so kindly apprehensive. One from Nancy Dear girl! She is very

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arose for the morning, would make me regardless of that Miss Grandison hints at. What joy, at another time, would the honour of this visit have given us! But even now, we have a melancholy pleasure in it: just such a one, as the sorrowing friends of the desperate sick experience, on the coming-in of a long-expected physician, although they are in a manner hopeless of his success. But a coach stops I ran to the dining-room window. O my dear! It is a coach! but only the two ladies! Good God! Sir