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    and vice so prevalent in the story . Th © admiration with which she regards ter unworthy nephew , who is to her the model of all perfection , and whom she loves just as devotedly as if he really were perfection , is accurately drawn . His mode of receiving it is equally so , as he grows up from a spoiled boy into a heartless man . The following scene is a good example of their mutual characters , and not without humour . Jonathan had worked

    himself up into the belief that he was in love with a beautiful and superior-minded girl in the neighbourhood , the daughter of a German nobleman , and

    accordingly" He despatched a sable messenger into the house with orders to bring Aunt Cli to him . Joyfully as ever , she came at his bidding . * You wants me , my darling ? ' said she , wiping the hands that had been cutting cheese and bacon , on her apron . ' You wants me , Jonathan dear ? What can I do for thee ?'— < Why , that ' s more than I can say , Aunt Cli /

    returned the enamoured youth ; ' but something must be done , or I shall go crazy . Do you know Lotte Steinmark since she ' been grown a woman ?'— < Do I know her , Jonathan ? Why , isn ' she the dearest little soul to me , next yourself , in the whole Union ?'— ' Indeed !—that ' s jam then . Aunt Cli , I ' m in love with her ; what d ' ye say to that ? I ' m mad for love of her , and you must bring us together , if you die the

    minute after . '— ' My —! ' exclaimed Cli , with a grin of the greatest delight , ' If that bean ' t the best bit of news I ' ve heard this many a day . Well , now , Jonathan darling , I'd rather go to your wedding with Lotte Steinmark for your bride , than see you married to the heiress of fifty niggers . '—The young lover whistled Yankee Doodle . — ' I had , indeed , Jonathan ; I ' m right down sure she ' d be clever to me . '— ' Make yourself decent , Aunt Cli , ' said the young * man , without answering her remark ,

    c and walk over with me to the house ; move quick , d ' ye hear ! and say nothing to nobody . ' Though a multitude of affairs must be given up the while , Clio could not refuse to comply with a request so every way agreeable , and in a few minutes she was trotting at a brisk pace after Jonathan as he strode away towards Reichland . Ere they had gone

    many steps , however , the youth turned suddenly round to her , saying , * Where do the old folks keep ? I ' ve no call to see them , you know . If I bide in the orchard a spell , can ' t you go in , and bring- the girl out to me , to take a walk for a bit , or something of that sort ?'—Clio looked up wistfully in his face , and seemed loath to utter a word that should check

    him ; but yet , somehow , she did not in her heart think she could bring out totte to walk with Jonathan in the orchard . —* Well , now , Jonathan , dear , I expect they might think that funny like ; mightn ' t they ? She ' s a shy young thing , that pretty Lotte ; and may be now you ' growed such a unaccountable noble-looking man of a boy , she mightn ' t think it first-rate decent to run after you into the orchard , Jonathan J . '—* That ' s first-rate decent to run after you into the orchard , onathan . — lhats

    all flum , Aunt Cli , People like them , that can ' t even keep a nigger to help ' em , had better not be after giving themselves airs , I can tell ' em . However , I expect you know the whole kit of them best . Which way had we better get at her ?'— ' Well , now , darling , I don ' t think we can do anything more likely than jest to walk in like , as I do by myself ; and say , How d ' ye get along , ' or summet of that sort , or else jest be after

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1836, page 637, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2662/page/49/