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    staftced } and regret 4 hat ? it iwnt ^ i in ouuipower to as sist in extri-08 * 10 ^ 41011 frdni > fcfc difficttfty . ' . This ibrought Percy to hik senses . ' H ^ # titt l ' cfl ? tUtiate that we ghcuid have been at that provoking opera : * ' ( his mother looked up ; he had never seemed to have

    had £ rt » ater enjoyment from the same cause than on that evening : ) c however , I can go before breakfast in the moaning : where are they ? You have the note , I think ; ' for it had disappeared from the table . ' I have , Percy . Listen ; and do not account it strange when I tell you I mean to retain it ; ' ( Percy looked somewhat possessive : ) * that is , if you will , after I have explained my reason ,

    permit me to do so . ' * My mother ! / permit you ! What is it you mean ? ' ' All is safe , ' again thought Mrs . Fenton . She continued aloud , — ' Listen , Percy , quietly , for a few minutes . When i first saw your acquaintance with Miss Brandon , I felt that it wYnild be a harmless pleasure , which I had no right to deny you . I had too much confidence in your prudence , in the kind consideration with which you have always regarded my

    wishes , ( wishes , I may earnestly say , ever having your good for their object , ) to fear , for a moment , that you would completely ruin the hopes I have so long cherished for you , by attempting an alliance with one so much beneath you . ' Percy ' s brow crimsoned . ' Beneath me ! ' ' Do not interrupt me ; I will not trouble you long . ' Trouble me ! Mother , why do you use this form to me ? ' ' Because your excessive impatience obliges me

    to do so . ' ' Forgive me ; I will not again interrupt you . ' Before I left the country I observed that yo \ ir feeling to Miss Brandon had become of too engrossing a character ; and , since our return to town , your repeated reference to her , your constant linking * the . thought of her to all our pursuits , convinced me still further that it would be necessary , as far as I had the power , to prevent any further ill consequences to you , and consequent misery to myself . Mr . Brandon ' s unfortunate affair , happening at stich a time , will , I fear , make what I am going to propose m 6 i * e annoying to you than it otherwise would have been ; but the absolute necessity of the case must plead for me . My dear

    son knows my motive , and will not judge me unkindly . ' Unkindly ! You who have been so devoted to me , that my whole life can newer repay you !—my true , my noble mother 1—why say all this to me ? ' There was something in Mrs . Fenton ' s conscience that shrank slightly ; but all was at stake , and poor conscience was smothered in a moment . ' Dear Percy , you must not answer that note of Miss Brandon s : we must leave this neighbourhood , that there may not be the unpleasantness of an explanation ; and you must learn to forget that she ever existed / The * first sentence aume like a thunderbolt ; the next re-awakened hifo ; and > by the time the third wds finished , ' be had found his spaedki > , ' What , now ? nowtb& £ she -id in « ufforiug 2 ^—m ow that she is dependent /—no w that all those rthoibare l < rt * ed her fcbould leap

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1835, page 584, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2649/page/20/