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I have lived a life of tumult since last compelled to leave you, and when itaccount of the losses you have suffered through your beneficence to the Harrels, and the explanatory one of the calumnies you have sustained from your kindness to the Belfields, I related with the plainness which alone I thought necessary to h honour I had received, into an inability to accede to it; and infor pohich you had invested her In conclusion I mentioned my new scheme, and firmly, before I would listen to any opposition, I declared that though wholly to their decision I left the relinquishing enerosity ain I had ventured, and with permission to apply to you, I should hold ed to you

And so I do, and so I shall! nor, after a renewal so public, will any prohibition but yours have force to keepmyself at your feet

My father's answer I will not et it! his prejudices are irremediable, his resolutions are inflexible Who or what has worked him into an animosity so irreclai darkly mysterious has part in his wrath and his injustice

My mother was much affected by your reference to herself Words of the sweetest praise broke repeatedly from her; no other such woman, she said, existed; no other such instance could be found of fidelity so exalted! her son must have no heart but for low and ard so unexampled, he could bear to live without her! Oh how did such a sentence froht, confire me at once!

The displeasure of es, always as improbable as injurious, now became too horrible for my ears; he disbelieved you had taken up the money for Harrel, he discredited that you visited the Belfields for Henrietta: passion not merely banished his justice, but, clouded his reason, and I soon left the rooht not hear the aspersions he forbid me to answer

I left not, however, your fame to a weak champion: my mother defended it with all the spirit of truth, and all the confidence of similar virtue! yet they parted without conviction, and so reed to meet no more