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"Mistaken notions!" said Mrs Delvile; "and how long do you flatter yourself this independent happiness would endure? How long could you live contented by ratification, in defiance of the censure of mankind, the renunciation of your family, and the curses of your father?"

"The curses of , "O no, he could never be so barbarous!"

"He could," said she, steadily, "nor do I doubt but he would If noever, you are affected by the prospect of his disclai you, think but what you will feel when first forbid to appear before either of us! and think of your rerace!"

"O speak not such words!" cried he, with agonizing earnestness, "to disgrace her,--to be banished by you,--present not, I conjure you, such scenes to ination!"

"Yet would they be unavoidable," continued she; "nor have I said to you all; blinded as you now are by passion, your nobler feelings are only obscured, not extirpated; think, then, how they will all rise in revenge of your insulted dignity, when your naer to your ears, and you are first saluted by one so meanly adopted!--"

"Hold, hold, madam," interrupted he, "this is more than I can bear!"

"Heavens!" still continued she, disregarding his entreaty, "what in the universe can pay you for that first nity! Think of it well ere you proceed, and anticipate your sensations, lest the shock should wholly overcoed ancestors rise into your guilty cheeks, and hoill your heart throb with secret shae by the na to the soul, attempted not any answer, but walked about the room in the utmost disorder ofhi after him, added "For myself, I would still see, for I should pity your wife,--but NEVER would I behold my son when sunk into an object of compassion!"

"It shall not be!" cried he, in a transport of rage; "cease, cease to distract me!--be content, madam,--you have conquered!"

"Then you are ain ht youth, and the flattering co all thus concluded, desired nothing so ratulate the only said "Letshe had been unheard, would have glided out of the room