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'No doubt you would,' replied Madame Cheron, with a smile of irony, 'and

I shall no doubt consent to this, since I see how necessary tranquillity

and retirement are to restore your spirits I did not think you capable

of so much duplicity, niece; when you pleaded this excuse for re

here, I foolishly believed it to be a just one, nor expected to have

found with you so agreeable a coet

his nanities 'It was a just

one, madam,' said she; 'and now, indeed, I feel more than ever the value

of the retirement I then solicited; and, if the purport of your visit

is only to add insult to the sorrows of your brother's child, she could

well have spared it'

'I see that I have undertaken a very troublesohly 'I a to restrain her tears, 'I am sure my father did not mean it

should be such I have the happiness to reflect, that hted to approve It would be very

painful to me to disobey the sister of such a parent, and, if you

believe the task will really be so troublesome, Isignifies little I a, in

consideration of my poor brother, to overlook the impropriety of your

late conduct, and to try what your future will be'

E she would explain as the impropriety

she alluded to 'What i the visits of a lover unknown

to your fa the i her niece to the

possibility of conduct so erroneous