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21%	A822.01 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 1. Text grieve for: but for none so much as this of premeditated duelling. Where is the magnanimity of the man that cannot get above the vulgar breath? How many fatherless, brotherless, sonless families have mourned all their lives the unhappy resort to this dreadful practice! A man who defies his fellow-creature into the field, in a private quarrel, must first defy his God; and what are his hopes, but to be a murderer? to do an irreparable injury to the innocent family and dependents of the murdered
21%	A822.01 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 1. Text it; and, on his knees, if he pleases (it is no disgrace to the proudest man to kneel to an injured lady) beg her pardon; and confess her clemency to be greater than he deserves, if she give it. Mr. B. Good God! Shall that be transcribed, Sir Charles? Sir Ch. By all means: and if Sir Hargrave is a man that has in his heart the least spark of true magnanimity, he will gladly embrace the opportunity of acting accordingly: and put down, Sir, that sorrow, that contrition, is all the atonement that
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text Sir Charles. I did not like his looks on his return. Dinner being ready to be served, and Sir Charles, who was still with the gentleman, summoned to it, he desired we would walk down, and he would wait upon us by the time we were seated. Some new trouble, thought I, of which I am the cause, I doubt. Presently came in Sir Charles, unaffectedly smiling and serene. God bless you, Sir! thought I His looks pleased me better than my cousin's. But, my dear, there is something going forward that I cannot
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text I. May God long continue to you two such blessings! I thought of the vile Sir Hargrave at the time. I can tell you how, said Mr. Grandison, to repay [page] 1
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text mention? I own no laws, but the laws of GOD and my country. But, to cut this matter short, tell Sir Hargrave, that, little as is the D 2 [page] 2
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text tranquillity must you have within you! The devil take me, Sir Hargrave, if you shall not make up matters with such a noble adversary. Mr. Mer. He has won me to his side. By the great God of heaven, I had rather have Sir Charles Grandison for my friend than the greatest prince on earth! Mr. Bag. Did I not tell you, gentlemen? D n me, if I have not hitherto lived to nothing but to my shame! I had rather be Sir Charles Grandison in this one past hour, than the Great Mogul all my life. Sir Hargrave even
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text . 'Fore God, Sir Hargrave, somebody has escaped a scouring, as the saying is. Mr. Mer. Ay, by my life, Sir Hargrave, you had like to have caught a Tartar. Sir Ch. The race is not always to the swift, gentlemen. Sir Hargrave's passion would, doubtless, have laid him under disadvantage. Defence is guarded: offence exposes itself. Mr. Bag. But, Sir Charles, you despise no man, I am sure, for differing from you in opinion. I am a Catholic Sir Ch. A Roman catholic No religion teaches a man evil. I honour
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text my own recollection, I need not of any man's minutes. Mr. Bag. You need not in this case, Sir Charles. Nothing has passed, as Sir Hargrave observes, but what makes for your honour. We that set him to work, have more need to be afraid than you. We bid him be honest, and not spare any of us. We little thought matters would have ended so amicably. Mr. Jor. Thank God they have! Mr. Mer. A very happy ending, I think! Sir Har. Not except Miss Byron consents to wipe out these marks. Mr. Bag. Mr
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text not only upon him, but upon Mr. Merceda, that they were both determined to turn over a new leaf, was his phrase; and to live very different lives from what they had lived; though they were far, they blessed God, from being before the worst of men. These gentlemen, with Mr. Merceda and Sir Hargrave, are to dine with Sir Charles to-day. They both mentioned it with great pleasure: but Sir Hargrave did not seem so well pleased, and doubted of his being able to persuade himself to go. The invitation
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text all I mean is, to arm you against feeling too sensibly, when it is known, the event which is now hidden in the bosom of Providence, should it, as is but too likely, prove unfavourable. You have a great deal of writing upon your hands. We cannot dispense with any of that. But if you write to your aunt Selby (as the time till next Saturday is short) that will be writing to us both. God preserve, direct, and bless, my sweet orphan-child! This is the hourly prayer of Your ever-affectionate
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text you not the husband of my choice? And now your grief affects me Leave me, Sir. You bring me back again to earth God preserve you, watch over you, heal you, support you. Your hand, Sir Thomas Grandison, the name that was ever so pleasant in my ears! Your hand, Sir! Your heart was my treasure: I have now, and only now, a better treasure, a diviner love, in view. Adieu, and in this world for ever adieu, my husband, my friend, my Grandison! She turned her head from him, sunk upon her pillows, and
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text had actually begun to do so; and as he had asked their advice in relation to his governor, who proved not so proper a person for that employment, as was expected; and to which they had answered, without knowing, for some time, what was the resolution he took. They asked their father, from time to time, after the welfare of their brother. He would answer them with pleasure, and sometimes with tears in his eyes, He is all that is dutiful, brave, pious, worthy: and would sometimes add, God reward
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text , ye shall take it patiently? But if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. But you, Lady L. lost your excellent mother very early. The worthy young lady would not, however, be prevailed upon to consent to a private marriage; and my lord took leave of her. Their parting was extremely tender; and the amiable Caroline, in the softness of her heart, overcome by my lord's protestations of everlasting love to her in preference to all Q 2 [page] 17
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text must release me from my knees, and send me up to my chamber, as fast as you can. A little patience, Lady L. But what say my minutes? Miss Byron seems all attention. This is a new subject to her. She never had any-body to controul her. I think I could have borne any-thing from a father or mother, said I, had it pleased God to continue to me so dear a blessing. Fine talking, Harriet! said Miss Grandison. But let me say, that a witty father is not a desirable character By the way, ours was as cruel
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text courtship, as I should, or should not, approve of it! Confound your sex! This ever was, and ever will be, the case. The blind god sets you out, where you mean the best, on a pacing beast; you amble, prance, parade, till your giddy heads turn round; and then you gallop over hedge and ditch; leap fences; and duty, decency, and discretion, are trodden under-foot! Poor Miss Caroline! said I, Lucy, to them both I expected this cruel retort. I foresaw it, replied Lady L. And this kept me off so long
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text DEAR AND EVER-HONOURED SIR, I am astonished at the contents of your last favour. If the proposal made in it arose from the natural greatness of your mind, and an indulgence which I have so often experienced, what shall I say to it? I cannot bear it. If it proceed from proposals made to you, God forbid that I should give your name to a woman, how illustrious soever in her descent, and how high soever the circumstances of her family, whose friends could propose such conditions to my father. I
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text worthy Dr. Bartlett) was come to Paris, as he had written, in expectation of receiving there his father's permission to return to England. On the eleventh day of his illness, Sir Thomas came a little to himself. He knew his daughters. He wept over them. He wished he had been kinder to them. He was sensible of his danger. Several times he lifted up his feeble hands, and dying eyes, repeating, God is just. I am, I have been, very wicked! Repentance! Repentance! how hard a task! said he once to the
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text talk how he would laugh at his cousin Charles, when he came to England, on his pious turn, as he called it; and even to boast that he would enter him into the town-diversions, and make a man of him; was struck with the dignity of his person, and yet charmed with the freedom of his behaviour. Good God! said he to the ladies afterwards, what a fine young man is your brother! What a self-denier was your father! The ladies retiring, Mr. Grandison entered upon the circumstances of Sir Thomas's
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text What an humbling thing is the consciousness of having lived faultily, when calamity seizes upon the heart! But shall not virtue be appeased, when the hand of God is acknowledged in the words, countenance, and behaviour of the offender! Yet, perhaps, it is hard for sufferers Let me consider Have I, from my heart, forgiven Sir Hargrave Pollexfen? I will examine into that another time. And so you have put yourself into mourning, madam? Shall I say, that Caroline said this, and what follows? Yet I
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text what they said: but he did; and turned back to them (Mrs. Oldham being at a distance, and, on his speaking low, dropping still further behind them): Don't you, my sisters, do too little, and I will not do too much. She is a gentlewoman. She is unhappy from within. Thank God, you are not. And she is not now, nor ever was, your servant. They reddened, and looked upon each other in some confusion. He pressed each of their hands, as in love. Don't let me give you concern, said he; only permit me
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text him by parents so fond of him, that, as the only son of an ancient family, he might have done what he pleased with them Of his love of truth: and of his modesty, courage, benevolence, steadiness of mind, docility, and other great and amiable qualities, by which he gives a moral assurance of making A GOOD MAN. GOD grant it. Amen! The ladies immediately carried this purse, thus labelled, to their brother. He took it; read the label, turning his face from his sisters, as he read; Excellent woman
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text affairs, and what you propose to do for and with those who are intitled to your first care, your confidence in me will not be misplaced. And pray, and pray, asked I of the ladies, what said Mrs Oldham? How did she behave upon this? Our Harriet is strangely taken with Mrs. Oldham's story, said Miss Grandison Why she wept plentifully, you may be sure. She clasped her hands, and kneeled to pray to God to bless him, and all that She could not do otherwise. See, Lucy! But am I, my grandmamma, am I
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text upon her And besides, as good women, said she, as Mrs. Lane and her daughters are, what protection can women give me, were my unhappy mother to be troublesome, and resolve to have me, as she is continually threatening? What a new world opens to me, my Lucy, from the acquaintance I am permitted to hold with this family! God grant that your poor Harriet pay not too dearly for her knowledge! She would, I believe you think, were she to be entangled in a hopeless love. LETTER XXV. MISS BYRON. IN
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text your lordship's affairs. Reckon upon my best services: promise, engage, undertake. The brother, my lord, hopes to make you easy: the sister will make you happy. Miss Charlotte was affected with this scene; and she prayed with her hands and eyes lifted up, that God would make his power as large as his heart: the whole world would then, she said, be benefited either by his bounty, or his example. Do you wonder now, my dear Mr. Reeves, that Miss Grandison, Lady L. and Lord L. know not how to contain
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text addressed himself to them: My dear sisters, you are too sensible of these but due instances of my brotherly love. It has pleased God to take from us our father and mother. We are more than brothers and sisters; and must supply to each other the wanting relations. Look upon me only as an executor of a will, that ought to have been made, and perhaps would, had time been given. My circumstances are greater than I expected; greater, I dare say, than my father thought they would be. Less than I have
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text Charlotte. Who shall be your judge? Yourself, Sir. God grant you may be found guilty, cousin, said Mr. Grandison, for your plaguing of me. Has that wretch, looking at Mr. Grandison, insinuated any-thing She stopt. Are you afraid, my sister? I would not give that creature any advantage over me. Sir Ch. I think I would, if there were fair room You have too often all the game in your own hands. You should allow Mr Grandison his chance. Mist Gr. Not to arise from such un observing hystander, as my brother
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text serious to be spoken of in metaphor. Miss Gr. Good God! Hem! and twice more she hemmed Pray, Sir, begin. Begin while I have breath. Lord and Lady L. and Dr. Bartlett, and I, looked very grave; and Miss Grandison looked, in general, fretfully humble, if I may so express myself: and every-thing being removed, but the table, she played with her diamond ring; sometimes pulling it off, and putting it on; sometimes putting the tip of her finger in it, as it lay upon the table, and turning it round and round
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text on a more perfect knowledge of the man, and of her own heart, than she could have at first. It is not my intention to depreciate him with his friend: I shall not, therefore, enter into particulars. Let me know, colonel, what the gentleman pretends to. He is passionate, I see: I am not a tame man: but God forbid, that Captain Anderson, who hoped to be benefited by an alliance with the sister, should receive hurt, or hard treatment, from her brother! Here Colonel Martin, who had heard something of
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text ments: and may death lay his cold hand upon her heart, before she become an additional disturbance to his! He knows not, I hope he guesses not, though Dr. Bartlett has found me out as well as the sisters, that I am captivated, heart and soul, by his merits. May he never know it, if the knowledge of it would give him the shadow of uneasiness! I owned to Mr. Deane, that my Lord L. and the ladies were warmly interested in my favour. Thank God for that! he said. All must happen to his wish. Nay
21%	A822.02 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 2. Text thousand pounds, falls to the executor, and residuary legatee, equally unexpected and undesired. The elder brother said, God bless you with it, Sir. The second said, It could not have fallen to a worthier man. The young lady's lips moved: but words proceeded not from them. Yet her eyes shewed, that her lips made me a compliment. It is ungenerous, Dr. Bartlett, to keep expecting minds in suspense, though with a view of obliging in the end. The surprise intended to be raised on such an occasion
21%	A822.03 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 3. Text dearest honey! My love! I must not bear these tears Would to God Sir Charles was here, and thought fit But I came not here to threaten You, my lord, are a man of the greatest honour; so is Sir Charles. But whatever were the misunderstandings between husband and wife, they should not be kept up and propagated between mother and child. My wife at present desires only to see her child: that's all my lord. Were your brother present, madam, he would not deny her this. Then again embracing his wife, My
21%	A822.03 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 3. Text versation upon paper, and so have fastened your merits on my memory. God bless you, madam, I am gone; and away she tript. But I will make her amends, before I go to rest; and confirm all that I said to her in the chariot; for most cordially I can. I am, my dear Lucy, and will be, Ever yours, HARRIET BYRON. LETTER VI. MR. DEANE TO MRS. SELBY. London, Friday night, March 17. You wished me, my dear Mrs. Selby, as I was obliged to go to London on my own affairs, to call at Colnebrook, and to give
21%	A822.03 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 3. Text . I will assist you in any little services myself. I have dismissed Jenny. God bless you, madam, said she; you consider every-body. Anne tells me, that the servants, throughout the house, adore you: and I am sure their principals do. Anne, you may go to your rest. Jenny, who attends me here, has more than once hinted to me, that Miss Jervois loves to sit up late, either reading, or being read to by Anne; who, though she reads well, is not fond of the task. Servants, said I, are as sensible as
21%	A822.03 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 3. Text , my and more than my Emily You have cured me of sleepiness for this night! O then I am sorry. No, don't be sorry. You have given me pain, 'tis true; but I think it is the sweetest pain that ever entered into a human heart. Such goodness! such innocence! such generosity! I thank God, my love, that there is in my knowledge so worthy a young heart as yours. Now, how good this is! (and again she wrapped her arms about me) And will you go? I must, I must, my dear! I can stay no longer. But take this
21%	A822.03 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 3. Text these without-door perplexities, as I may call them, to torment me. Thank God that they arise not from within, though they make themselves too easy a passage to my heart! My paper is written out. If I am likely to find a drowsy moment, I shall welcome its approach; if not, I will rise, and continue my subject. LETTER X. SIR CHARLES GRANDISON TO DR, BARTLETT. Sunday, March 19. I HAVE had two happy hours of forgetfulness; I could not, though I tried for it, prevail for more: and I will continue my
21%	A822.03 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 3. Text threatens by turns, and I cannot bare it. Once she was going to tie herself up Would to God I had not prevented her And then (O my folly!) we went on again. My good Dr. Bartlett, I was ashamed of my uncle. But you see what an artful, as well as insolent woman, this is. What, folly is there in wickedness! Folly encounters with folly, or how could it succeed so often as it does? Yet my mother's brother to wish he had suffered a creature with whom he had been familiar, to destroy herself! I could hardly
21%	A822.03 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 3. Text to make a little difficulty of the 100l. a year, though I thought my lord ought not And as to misbehaviour, Dr. Bartlett, I hardly know how to punish a woman for that, to her keeper. Does she not first misbehave to herself, and to the laws of God and man? And ought a man, that brings her to violate her first duties, to expect from her a regard to a mere discretionary obligation? I would have all these moralists, as they affect to call themselves, suffer by such libertine principles as cannot be
21%	A822.03 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 3. Text I can't help it. Emily, flattering girl! told me, she saw great signs of attachment to me in his eyes and behaviour; but I see no grounds for such a surmise: his affections are certainly engaged. God bless him, whatever his engagements are! When he was absent, encouraged by his sisters and Lord L. I thought pretty well of myself; but, now he is present, I see so many excellencies shining out in his mind, in his air and address, that my humility gets the better of my ambition. Ambition! did I say
21%	A822.03 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 3. Text has amiable qualities: we are none of us right at all times. You see, Emily, that I, in chiding her, spoke with a little too much petulance. God for ever bless my brother! said Miss Grandison, in a kind of rapture: but now his goodness makes my flippancy odious to myself Sit down, my child, and play your Italian air. This brought in Sir Charles. He entered with a look of serenity, as if nothing had passed to disturb him. When Emily had done playing and singing, Miss Grandison began to make
21%	A822.03 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 3. Text acknowledgment of self-denial Miss Gr. Good God! brother. I was angry at him, in my mind. How came this good man, thought I, by such thoughts as these, of our sex? What, Lucy, could a woman do with such a man, were he to apply to her in courtship, whether she denied or accepted of him? Sir Ch. You will consider, Lady L, that you and Charlotte have brought this upon yourselves. That I call female pride, which distinguishes not either time, company, or occasion. You will remember, that Lord G. is not
21%	A822.03 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 3. Text preservation to me, O Grandison! said he, that I had followed your advice! that I had kept my promise with you! How did I insult you! Can my deliverer forgive me? You shall be the director of my future life, if it please God to restore me. His wounds proved not mortal; but he never will be the man he was: partly from his having been unskilfully treated by this his first surgeon; and partly from his own impatience, and the difficulty of curing the wound in his hip-joint. Excuse this particularity
21%	A822.03 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 3. Text very delicate, and in which her judgment and her love are, as she hints, at variance, I verily think, she would not be able to bear it. That God direct you for the best, whom you and yours have always served with signal devotion! I will only add, That since the secret which had so long preyed upon her fine spirits, is revealed, she appears to be much more easy than before; but yet.she dreads the reception she shall meet with on her return to Bologna. She begs of me, when that return shall be
21%	A822.03 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 3. Text his life to you. I bless God, we are a family that know not what ingratitude means. I made my acknowledgments both to father and Son. The marquis then went into public affairs; and soon after left us together. I was considering, whether I had best tell that sincere friend my apprehensions in relation to the articles of religion and residence; for he had with an air of humour congratulated me on the philosophical manner in which I bore my good fortune; when Camilla entered, and whispered me of her
21%	A822.03 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 3. Text has been your advocate ever since he knew you. Jeronymo has gratitude; but you, chevalier, have no affections. I thank God, said I, that your lordship does not do me justice. He led me into his brother's apartment. B B 2 [page] 28
21%	A822.03 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 3. Text natural impulses of the distressed heart often point out the best alleviation. Would to Heaven they had been pursued! I have great dependence on the generous friendship of Signor Jeronymo. All that is in my power to do, I will do. I honour, I venerate, every one of the truly-noble family: I never can deserve their favour. On all occasions, Camilla, let them know my devotion to them. I beg of God, said she, to put it into your heart to restore the tranquillity of a family which was, till lately
21%	A822.03 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 3. Text with any-body else. I have undertaken for more than that already; but it will not be heard of Would to God, chevalier, that you, for my sake, for all our sakes But I know you have a great deal to say on this subject, as you told my brother. New converts, added he, may be zealous; but you old Protestants, Protestants by descent, as I may say, 'tis strange you should be so very stedfast. You have not many young gentlemen, I believe, who would be so very tenacious; such offers, such advantages And
21%	A822.03 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 3. Text with her for ever Yet, how can a mother Her tears spoke what her lips could not utter. Recovering her voice, I have left her, said she, contending with the doctors against being let blood. She was so earnest with me to prevent it, that I could not stay. It is over by this time She rang. At that moment, to the astonishment of all three, in ran the dear Clementina herself. A happy escape! Thank God! said she Her arm bound up. She had felt the lancet; but did not bleed more than two or three
21%	A822.03 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 3. Text I arose. I was unable to bear this affecting scene She saw me. Good God! said she. Then in English breaking out into that line of Hamlet, which she had taken great notice of, when we read that play together Angels, and ministers of grace, defend us! She left her mother, and stept gently towards me, looking earnestly with her face held out, as if she were doubtful whether it were I, or not. I snatched her hand, and pressed it with my lips O madam! Dearest lady! I could say no more. It is he! It
21%	A822.03 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 3. Text threatened. But I thank God, I do not deserve the treatment. LETTER XXVIII. MISS BYRON. IN CONTINUATION. London, Friday morning, March 31. HERE; my Lucy, once more I am. We arrived yesterday in the afternoon. Lady Betty Williams and Miss, Clements have been already to welcome me on my return. My cousin says, they are inseparable. I am glad of it, for Lady Betty's sake. Dr. Bartlett is extremely obliging. One would think, that he and his kinsman give up all their time in transcribing for us. I send you
21%	A822.03 Beagle Library: Richardson, Samuel. 1781. The history of Sir Charles Grandison. 7 vols. London: Strachan. Volume 3. Text the hand of another! Would to God that his passion, and your spirit, were more moderate! But let me request this favour of you; that you retire to Florence, for a few days, at least. How unhappy am I, that I am disabled from taking part in a more active mediation! Yet the general admires you. But how can we blame in him a zeal for the honour of his family, in which he would be glad at his soul to include a zeal for yours? For God's sake quit Bologna for a few days only. Clementina is more sedate

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