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"I a Mrs Carleton here

entreated her to listen, and seized her hand, so that there was no

escape The tale was broken and confused, but there could be little

doubt of its correctness Poor Bessie had been the bane of young

Carleton's life She had never either decidedly accepted or repelled his

affection, but, as she had truly said, let hi, and aame He was

in his father's office, but her charms disturbed his application to

business and kept hi the croquet lawns of Littleworthy,

whence his mother never had the resolution to banish her spoilt child

At last Miss Keith's refusal of him softened by a half-implied hope,

sent him forth to his uncle at Rio, on the promise that if he did his

utmost there, he should in three years be enabled to offer Miss Keith

more than a competence With this hope he had for the first time applied

his of her

e, and like a true spoilt child broke down at once in resolution,

capacity, and health, so that his uncle was only too glad to ship hiland And when Lady Keith hbourhood, the coood

nature, and almost contempt, and allowed by his family in confidence

of the rectitude of both parties; and indeed nothing could be more true

than that no harround; ladies,