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, and a vast deal more; and when I have told him my mind, I shall be easy. Will my precious girl be easy, broke out into speech her weeping mother, when you have told the chevalier your mind? You shall tell him your mind, my dear; and God restore my child to peace, and to me! Well now, my mamma, this is a good sign For if I have moved you to oblige me, why may I not move him to oblige himself? That's all I have in view. He has been my tutor, and I want, methinks, to return the favour, and be his

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but he should. Would to God, madam, said I to the marchioness, that I had yours and my lord's interest! From what the dear Lady Clementina has hinted, I might presume But, Sir, you are mistaken, perhaps, said the young lady. Though I answer for answering's sake, and to shew that I have no doubt of my stedfastness in an article in which my soul is concerned; yet that is no proof of my attachment to an obstinate I know what! Heretic was, no doubt, in her head. I took her mother aside: For God's

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unhappy delirium, though not caused by me (I bless God for that!) has made me tender as a chidden infant. And can I think of quitting Bologna, and not see if it be possible for me to gratify myself, and serve them in her restoration? Setting quite out of the question the general's causeless resentments, and the engagement I have laid myself under not to leave it without apprising him of my intention. Upon the whole, I resolved to wait the issue of the new measures they have fallen upon. The dear lady

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beloved friend, cherish in your noble heart the memory of your Grandison. Would to God I could attend you to England! We have baths there of sovereign efficacy. The balm of a friendly and grateful heart would promote the cure. I have urged it before. Consider of it. My Grandison, my dear Grandison, my friend, my preserver! I You are not going! I am, my Jeronymo; and embraced him. Love me in absence, as I shall you. Chevalier, said the bishop, you don't go? We hope for your company at a small

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once they were, now sunk, and absolute despair having taken place of them Would to God I had never returned to Italy! But I reproach not any-body. Yet, said Jeronymo, you have some reason To be sent for as you were [page] 36

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permitted to leave us! God be your director and comforter, as well as ours! Prays Your ever-affectionate JERONYMO. Mr. Grandison, having no hopes of being allowed to see the unhappy lady, set out with an afflicted heart for Florence. He gave orders there, and at Leghorn, that the clerks and agents of his late friend Mr. Jervois should prepare every-thing for his inspection against his return from Naples; and then he set out for that city to attend the general. He had other friends to whom he had

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with her? Then, Lucy, he may, on his return to England, once a year, or so, on his visiting his ward, see, and thank for her care and love of his Emily, his half-estranged Harriet! Perhaps Lady Clementina Grandison will be with him! God restore her! Surely I shall he capable, if she be Lady Grandison, of rejoicing in her recovery! Fie upon it! Why this involuntary tear? You would see it by the large blot it has made, if I did not mention it. Excellent man! Dr. Bartlett has just been telling me

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self in the eyes of the deepest discerner in the world, gave him the other. He looked first upon one, then upon the other note, with surprise And then bowing to the ground, to me, and to my guardian, he stept to my mother, and presented them both to her You, madam, said he, must speak: I cannot as I ought: God send me with a whole heart out of this house! He hurried out, and when he was in the hall, wiped his eyes, and sobbed like a child, as one of the servants told my Anne. My mother looked

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lately seen; for I cannot doubt, said he, of your lordship's affectionate gratitude to her, if she behaves as I am sure she will. My lord had tears in his eyes. Never man had such a nephew as I have, said he. All the joy of my present prospects, all the comforts of my future life, are and will be owing to you. Here had he stopt, it would have been well: but, turning to me, he unexpectedly said, Would to God, madam, that you could reward him! I cannot; and nobody else can. All were alarmed for me

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you, madam, he will love his ward And on your love will I build all my merit. But you sigh, dear Miss Byron, you sigh Forgive your prating girl! You must not be grieved. I embraced her. Grief, my dear, reaches not my heart at this time. It is the merit of your guardian that affects me. God bless you, madam, for your gratitude to my guardian! A Clementina and a Harriet! said Lady L. two women so excellent! What a fate is his! How must his heart be divided! Divided, say you, Lady L.! resumed Lady

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prevail upon Miss Byron to think that he has merit, and that his heart is wholly devoted to her. Amiss, madam! No! In justice, in honour, I cannot. May Miss Byron be, as she deserves to be, one of the happiest women on earth in her nuptials. I have heard a great character of Lord D. He has a very large estate. He may boast of his mother. God forbid, that I, a man divided in myself, not knowing what I can do, hardly sometimes what I ought to do, should I seek to involve in my own uncertainties the

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! God is my witness But I will lay every-thing before Miss Byron. Lady G. You need not, my lord: she knows as much as she can know, already; except the fine colourings be added to the woeful tale, that your unbridled spirit can give it. Have you my long letter about you, Harriet? Lord G. And could you, madam, have the heart to write Lady G. Why, my lord, do you mince the matter? For heart, say courage. You may speak as plain in [page] 21

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, so particularly, your behaviour to your Grevilles, Fenwicks, and Ormes. What is that but saying, See, Charlotte! I am a much more complaisant creature to the men, no one of which I intend to have, than you are to your husband! What a pious woman, indeed, must be your grandmamma, that she could suspend her joy, her long-absent darling at her feet, till she had first thanked God for restoring her to her arms! But, in this instance, we see the force of habitual piety. Though not so good as I

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man of first consideration! He has also been seen in a gayer habit, at a certain gaming-table, near Covent-Garden; where he did not content himself with being an idle spectator. Colonel Winwood, our informant, shook his head, but made no other answer, to some of our enquiries. May he suffer! say I. A sorry fellow! Preparations are going on, all so-fast, at Windsor. We are all invited. God grant that Miss Mansfield may be as happy as Lady W. as we all conclude she will be! but I never was fond of

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trusted not my heart with such a proposal. What difficulties, my dear friend, have I had to encounter with! God be praised that I have nothing, with regard to these two incomparable women, to reproach myself with. I am persuaded that our prudence, if rashly we throw not ourselves into difficulties, and if we will exert it, and make a reliance on the proper assistance, is generally proportioned to our trials. I asked the marchioness after Lady Sforza, and her daughter Laurana; and whether they were

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God it might throughout! A happy allusion, said the bishop. I say, Amen. I know not who this Naaman is, said the general, nor what is meant by your allusion, chevalier: but by your looks I should imagine, that you mean me contempt. My looks, my lord, generally indicate my heart. You may make light of my intention; and so will I of the trouble I have been at, if your lordship make not light of me. But were I not, my lord, in my own lodgings, I would tell you, that you seem not to know, in my case

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itself. He took me aside. I see, Grandison, the consequence you are of to this unhappy girl: every one sees it. But I depend upon your honour: you remember what you said this morning Good God! said I, with some emotion: I stopt And resuming, with pride equal to his own, Know, Sir, that the man whom you thus remind, calls himself a man of honour; and you, as well as the rest of the world, shall find him so. He seemed a little abashed. I was flinging from him, not too angrily for him, but for the rest

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offended you. Thank God, she has recollection! When I went in, she was in her mother's arms; her mother soothing her, and weeping over her. See, see, my child, the chevalier! you have not offended him. She quitted her mother's arms. I approached her. I thought it was not you that sat by me, a while ago. But when you went away from me, I saw it could be nobody but you. Why did you go away? Was you angry' I could not be angry, madam. You bid me leave you: and I obeyed. Well, but now what shall I say

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you. I must not he too selfish. God preserve you, wherever you go! Only [page] 3

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Well, Sir, and so you must go She quitted her mother, and with a dignity like that which used to distinguish her, she turned to me; and gracefully waving one hand, while she held up the other God preserve you wherever you go! You must go from friend to friend, were it all the world over. You will let Jeronymo hear often from You Won't you? Pray do. And I will, in every visit I make to him, enquire when he heard from his friend. Adieu, Sir: adieu. I had not intended then to take my leave of her

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God to restore his sister, no more from him, he said, should her mind be endangered: but her choice should determine him. His lady declared her esteem for me, without reserve; and said, That, next to the recovery of Clementina and Jeronymo, her wish was, to be intitled to call we brother. What, my dear Dr. Bartlett, is, at last, to be my destiny! The greatest opposer of the alliance once in view, is overcome: but the bishop, you will observe, by what I have told you, ascribes to another cause the

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, whether I did not think she would soon be quite well. I answered, That I had no doubt of it. Look you there now, my dear lady. I thought you said so, ehevaher ! but I was not sure. God grant it ! My afflietion is great, my mamma. I must have been a wieked ereature Pray for me. Her mother comforted her, praised her, and raised her dejeeted heart. And then Clementina looking down, a blush overspreading her face, and standing motionless, as if eonsidering of something What is in my child's thoughts

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tenderness: your prudence cannot be doubted I will attend you by-and-by. His eyes were ready to run over. I went down. I met my lord at the stairs foot. How, how, madam, does Sir Charles? O my lord ! we are all undone. My brother, by this time, is the husband of Lady Clementina. He was struck, as with a thunderbolt; God forbid ! were all the words he could speak; and turned as pale as death. I love him, for his sincere love to my Harriet. I wrung his hand The letters do not say it. But every-body is

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in his eyes. She turned round, and saw us with our handkerchiefs at ours. Her uncle, rising from his seat, stood with his back to us, at one of the windows. Well, my dear friends, and you are all grieved for me. It is kind, and I can thank you for your concern for me, because the man is Sir Charles Grandison And so, doctor, laying her hand upon his, he is actually married? God Almighty, piously bending one knee, make him and his Clementina happy! Well, my dearest dear friends, and what is there