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her to her chair. She sat down, still trembling. God be praised, said I, bowing my face on both her hands, as I held them in mine, for the amended health of the lady so dear to all who have [page] 14

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have my father, my mother, my brother done, that I should shew myself willing to leave them, and a beloved country, for a country but lately hated too, as well as the religion? But now, that that hatred is gone off, and so soon, gives another instance of my weakness, and thy strength, O most amiable of men! O thou, whom my soul loveth, seek not to entangle me by thy love! Were I to be thine, my duty to thee would mislead me from that I owe to my God, and make me more than temporarily unhappy

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can express. Camilla left me. Father Marescotti came to me presently after, with a request, that I would attend the family in Juronymo's chamber. We went up together. All that the good father said, as we walked in, was, that God knew what was best for us: for his part, he could only wonder and adore in silence. When we were all seated, the bishop said, My dear chevalier, you have intitled yourself to our utmost gratitude. It is confirmed, that Clementina shall be yours. Jeronymo will have it so

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knew not much better before than I? Let us, I remember you once said, when we are called upon to act a great or manly part, preach by action. Words then will be needless. God only knows, whether the ardent heart would be punished or rewarded, by the completion of its wishes: but this I know, that were Clementina to give me both her hand and her heart, and could not, by reason of religious doubts, be happy with me, I should myself be extremely miserable; especially if I had been earnest to

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her hand with my lips] say, you think you can be happy, and yet bless me with your love. O Sir! God is my witness But leave me, leave me, for a few moments. I dare not trust myself with myself. Command me not to leave you, madam, till you resolve in my favour Say, cannot you be happy in the free exercise of your own religion? Father Marescotti, Camilla, with you In England but one year at a time In Italy, under the re-assuring eye of your father, mother, brothers, the next. Ah, Sir! you must

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Italy, and her religion, were likely to lose her for ever. And will you not allow of my curiosity now? God give you, chevalier, health and happiness here and hereafter! But may you never be the husband of Clementina, but of some woman of your own country, if there be one in it that can deserve you! The count left me with this wish, pronounced with earnestness: and I suppose will visit the bishop and Father Marescotti, in order to gratify his curiosity. My indisposition requiring indulgence, I sent a

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sacrament, surely cannot doubt but you may serve God in it with much greater efficacy, than were you to sequester yourself from a world that [page] 23

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longer, as you shall find inclination. Dearest Grandison, said Jeronymo, I will accept of your invitation the moment I am told that I may undertake the journey The journey, my lord! interrupted I Your cabin shall be made near as convenient to you as your chamber. You shall be set ashore within half a league of my house in London. God give us a pleasant voyage; and in a few days time, you will not know, except by amended health and spirits, that you are not in this your own chamber. Surely, said the

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, remember that the full establishment of your health depends, under God, upon the quiet of your own mind. Give not way, I beseech you, to uneasy apprehensions. What daughter may rely upon the indulgence of a father and mother, what sister upon the affection of brothers, if you may not upon yours? You have seen how much their happiness depends upon your health. Would you doubt the efficacy of that piety, while you are in the world, of which you have already (shall I say to my cost?) given an instance so

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is!) for ever to establish, or for ever to depreciate, your character, in the judgment both of friends and enemies. How often have I seen passion, and even rage, deform features that are really lovely! Shall it be said, that your great fortune, your abundance, has been a snare to you? That you would have been a happier, nay a better woman, had not God so bountifully blessed you? Can your natural generosity of temper allow you to bear such an imputation, as that the want of power only can keep

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my poor cousin Grandison. My poor cousin, indeed! What a spiritless figure does he make! I remember you once said, That it was more difficult for a man to behave well in prosperity, than in adversity: but the man who will prove the observation to be true, must not be one, who, by his own extravagance and vice, has reduced himself, from an affluence to which he was born, to penury, at least to a state of obligation and dependence. Good God! that a man should be so infatuated, as to put on the

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Indeed she is not, said I, with a gravity becoming the occasion. God forbid! said he, with an emotion that pleased every-body Not for your sake, Harriet Be not affectedly nice now; but for our own His face was in a glow What, Lady L. what, Charlotte, said he, ails Miss Byron? She is not well, brother, replied I; but the most charming sick woman that ever lived. She is cheerful, that she may give no uneasiness to her friends. She joins in all their conversations, diversions, amusements. She

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letter. She shewed it to me, and to her mother, only. Dear creature! Could she but be prevailed upon! But how can you be asked to support the family-wishes? Yet if you think them just, I know you will. You know not self, when justice and the service of your friend stand in opposition to it. All that I am afraid of, is, that we shall be too precipitate for the dear creature's head. Would to God, you could have been my brother! That was the first desire of my heart! But you will see by her letter (the

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ence. She cannot live without her pleasures: neither can he without his. A Ranelagh fop. Poor wretches! What will become of them? For everything is in her mother's power, as to fortune. She has been met by Miss Allestree; and looked so shy! so silly! so slatternly! Unhappy coquettish thing! Well, but God bless you, my dear! My nursery calls upon me! The dear little soul is so fond of me! Adieu. Compliments to every-body I have so much reason to love: Mr. Reeves's too. Once more, Adieu. ELIZA

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asked leave before my brother's invitation (and was gone, my Jenny attending her) to visit her mother, who is not well. My brother was engaged to sup abroad, with some of the Danbys, I believe: I therefore made Lord and Lady L. cousin Reeves and cousin Reeves, and my aunt Grandison, sup with me. Emily was at home before me Ah the poor Emily! I'll tell you how it was between us My lovely girl, my dear Emily, said I, I have good news to tell you, about Miss Byron O thank God! And is she well? Pray

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all my friends! My grandmamma, with all her equanimity, has much ado to suppress her joyful emotions: and he is so respectfully tender to her, that had he not my heart before, he would have won it now. He had again waved the relation of the insult he met with; Mr. Greville himself, he supposed, would give it. He had a mind to see if the gentleman, by his report of it, was a gentleman. Thank God, said he, I have not hurt a man who boasts of his passion for Miss Byron; and of his neighbourhood

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moveably fixed; and still further being assured, that they will look upon my resignation as a compensation for all the troubles I have given them, for many, many months passed God enable me, I pray, to resign to their will. But if I cannot, shall I be still entreated, still persuaded? I hope not I will do my endeavour to prevail on myself to obey But whatever be the event of my self-contendings, Grandison must give the example.' How, my Grandison, did we congratulate ourselves, when we read

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there has suffered enough from a worse malady: nor if it stay in the island, let it come near the sighing heart of my Emily! That dear girl shall be happy, if it be in my power to make her so. Pray, ladies, tell her she shall. No, but don't: I will tell her so myself by the next post. Nor let it, I pray God, attack Lady Anne S. or any of the half-score ladies, of whom I was once so unwilling to hear. Our discourse at table was on various subjects. My cousin James was again very inquisitive after

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disconcert us! If there should, how many broken hearts The first broken one, madam, interrupted I, would be the happiest: I, in that case, should have the advantage of every-body. Dear love! you are too serious [tears were in my eyes]: Sir Charles's unquestionable honour is our security! If Clementina be stedfast; if life and health be spared you and him If Dear, dear madam, no more Ifs! Let there be but one If, and that on Lady Clementina's resumption. In that case, I will submit; and God

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hour since I saw you and Sir Charles Grandison at my house on the forest. All is gloom and horror in my mind: my despondency is, must be, of the blackest kind. It is blacker than remorse: it is all repining; but no repentance: I cannot, cannot, repent. Lord God of Heaven and Earth, what a wretch am I! with such a fortune; such estates; I am rich as Croesus, yet more miserable than the wretch that begs his bread from door to door; and who oftener meets repulses, than relief. What a glorious choice

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reveries (for I slept no more that night) Sir Charles, I thought, was assassinated by Greville. Greville fled his country for it, and became a vagabond, a Cain, the accursed, I thought, of God and man I, your poor Harriet, a widow; left in the most calamitous circumstance that a woman can be in Good Heaven! But, avaunt, recollection! Painful, most painful, recollection of ideas so terrible! none of your intrusions No more of these horrid, horrid incongruities, will I trouble you with! How have they run

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much! 'Duty to yield to the entreaties of all my friends.' Ah, Grandson! 'Difficult situations!' Difficult indeed! And here am I, who have, more than any other in the world, enhanced his difficulties! Unhappy Clementina! Then reading on Good God! Mrs. Beaumont! 'There is an English lady, with whom he was actually Does he not hint in love?' Nay, then Take it, take it, Mrs. Beaumont! I can read no further Compassion * See Letter v. p. 14, of this volume, Y 3 [page] 24

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My dearest Clementina, said I, you have shewn so glorious a magnanimity, that it would be injuring you, to suppose you are not equal to every branch of duty. God forbid that you should be called to sustain an unreasonable trial In a reasonable one, you must be victorious. Ah Jeronymo! How little do I deserve this fine compliment! Magnanimity, my brother! You know not what I yet, at times, suffer! And have you not seen my reason vanquished in the unequal conflict? She wept. But let the

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could not presently speak; and how my tears mingled with theirs! O Sir, you made us all infants! I, for my part, am still a baby! Did I ever cry so much for grief, as you have made me cry for joy? It is well something now-and-then comes to cheek one's joy; there would be no bearing it, else. But I shall encroach on your precious time. Thank you, thank you, Sir, a hundred thousand times. My mother is happy! Mr.O'Hara is happy! My Miss Byron will soon be the happiest of all human beings, thank God

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your uncle's heart and mine, said she, to see you settled in Grandison-hall. In less than a quarter of an hour Sir Charles returned, overjoyed, with an open billet in his hand, from the venerable parent. What short work did my grandmamma make of it! This is it: 'To me, my Harriet, you have referred the most important day of your life. May the Almighty shower down his blessings on it! 'Thursday, next week, God willing, is the day, which shall crown the happiness of us all. 'Make no objections