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feeling, her passions impetuous, and her brain almost turned with flattery, dissipation, and pleasure; an

nor once imagining he could refuse a girl of her beauty and fortune, she prevailed

for Henry; and was too fashionable a man to suppose a wife could be any

Lucy Eldridge shared it with him; and the knowledge of the purity of her sentiments, and the integrity of his own heart, made him shudder at the idea his father had started, of marrying a woman for no other reason than because the affluen

appear in his presence. Temple bowed; his heart was too full to permit him to speak; he left the house prec

such a fortune should be lost, determined to offe

e heard of Temple's refusal, wept, raved, tore her hair, and vowed to found a protestant nunnery with

the old Earl, expatiated on the many benefits arising from an elevated title, painted in glowing colours the surprise and vexation of T

she believed the surest method to revenge the slight put on her by the son, would be

fficient not only for the comforts but many of the little elegancies of life. We will purchase a little cottage, my Lucy," said he, "and thither with your reverend father we will retire; we will forget there are such things as splendor, profusion, and dissipation: we will have some cows, and you shall be queen of the dairy; in a morning, while I loo

red; where, during many years of uninterrupted felicity, they cast not a wish beyond the little boundaries of their own tenement. Plenty, and her handmaid, Prudence,

t the earnest entreaty of a particular friend, was permitted to finish the education her mother had