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    n&me never passed their lips . Since her father ' s veoofrety , this was the © lie oloud that dkrkened Flora ' s heaven ; and , in spite of ail her efforts to remove it ,, there it remained . Though the melancholy it awakened was not of the deepest kind , though she was spared the excess of bitterness which a disappointment in the

    object occasions , though she felt it to be a fault of the circumstance rather than the individual , yet the want of the one sympathy , the deprivation of the interchange which she had enjoyed so intensely , made her heart at times , even with all the strong interest of her pursuit , an aching void . The feeling of reliance

    which she had once felt towards her father had completely changed ; she felt his thorough dependence upon her , and turned with a shrinking fear from the thought of what the consequence of any failure in her might be to him . What might not Percy have been to her now ?—And where was Percy ?

    We must return to the evening of Flora ' s arrival in town * On the return of Percy and his mother from the opera the note was duly delivered , and the ' great consequence' of George lost-none of its emphasis by its transmission . Mrs . Fenton lifted her questioning eyes to Percy as he broke the seal . * Heaven ! she is here V was his first exclamation . ' Who V said Mrs . Fenton .

    f You shall read , ' said Percy , still continuing to retain Flora ' s note . While finishing its perusal , his mother watched his rapidlychanging face , which had blanched to excessive paleness ere he gave the note to her . She read it witiiout comment , refolded it , and placed it on a table near her . The excess and suddenness oi Percy ' s feeling held him silent ; his mother was the first to speak .

    9 I have been wishing for a half-hour ' s conversation with you relative to Miss Brandon for some time , dear Percy , and , though I am aware of its seeming a somewhat ungracious period at which to introduce it , the necessity of the case must excuse me , both to yon and herself . I have marked the impression she has made upon you , which up to a certain point was a desirable

    circumstance ; to go beyond that point , my dear son , you must allow , would h < 6 a most objectionable thing for you , and consequently a bitter affliction to me . ' Percy continued silent ; his feelings were &tt in tumult , and , for the first time , they seemed to rebel against hife power to command them . He knew not how to answer ; and his slight confusion and hesitation of manner awakened the fears of his mother , c Percy , tell me , have you ever given Miss

    Brandon cause to think of you other than as a friend T The silence continued . € Percy , you alarm me ; let me know the worst at once ; have you made a declaration of love to her V ' No /^ - ^ carne out like a murmur from a dreaming man . Shadow of a denial as it was ; Mrs . Fenton knew she might rely upon it . The principle of truth and justice , which her son had received from her , would haire tnade her , had the case been otherwise , at once have sacrificed her long ^ heiished ambition upon the altar of plighted faith *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1835, page 582, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2649/page/18/