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AUTHOR OF THE ENGLISHWOMAN; HOURS OF AFFLUENCE
AND DAYS OF INDIGENCE; MODERN VILLA AND

ANCIENT CASTLE, &c. &c.

My affections

Are then most humble; I've no ambition

To see a goodlier man.

VOL. VI.

LONDON:

PRINTED AT THE

Minerva-Prels,

FOR A. K. NEWMAN AND CO.

LEADENHALL-STREET.

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English Storchite 12-5-54 94704

THE

ENGLISHMAN.

CHAP. I.

SIDNEY found the family at the cottage (with the exception of our heroine) engaged in retracing scenes of times long past. Sir Ormsby, though acquainted with many of the circumstances, took a melancholy pleasure in the opportunities they afforded of venting his regrets. Fitzhenry could not wholly exculpate himself from charges of remissness; yet he had ever intended to adopt the orphan, and had made actual provision for her comfort, by communication to his agents. How his purpose had been defeated, he knew not;

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some

some villainy must have intervened, or Amelia would have been spared all the poverty she had experienced.

"Where have you left Edward, Mr. Wentworth?" asked Mrs. Manderson.

"He is gone to the count, madam; he was impatient to see him."

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Sidney," said the baronet, " how well you judged the excellent Durweston, when I so unfortunately mistook his principles ! I say wrong. It was not him, but his mission, which excited my intemperate repulse he is truly a fine young man, alive to the feelings of a man, without a particle of arrogance, or an inlet which could impress a belief he would yield where it is proper to oppose. I am not certain he does not carry his principles a little too far; at least, he has mortified my zeal, though without diminishing my regard." "This, my dear father, is the yery essence of friendship between man and man. We may, with cordial sincerity, offer ourselves agents to the happiness of the

man

man we esteem, feel all the delight which justness of intention inspires in the mind rightly impelled; but he who rejects our bounty, while he retains the affections, acts up to the character of man in his most exalted station. Subjection is natural to us, agreeably to the rank in which we are born; but, if man must yield to subjection, I must believe he would seek it amongst strangers, certainly not of a friend.”

"I agree with you, Mr. Wentworth," replied Mrs. Manderson; " and indeed, when do I not applaud your sentiments? A young man would be despicable in submitting to the vassalage of friends, however amiable. I pride myself on the character of my nephew, who, in conforming himself to the sedentary drudgery of an office, is, in my eyes, exalted. His gain in the situation he filled was by no means adequate to his exertions, though liberality marked the conduct of his employers; nay, I rejoice in the certainty that his successor,

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