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"This time I am desperately, and really, in love"

"So you ith Mollie Trefuses, with Sarah Talbot, with Eliza Capel, with Matilda Howard--and a galaxy of minor beauties"

"But it has come to this--I wish to marry Miss Moran; and I never wished to otten--And by Heaven! you ht of as a wife--for one moment"

"Sir, you are not so unjust as toht to have sprung up voluntary in your own heart It is an incredible thing if you are not already fanorance"

"Look around you Look east, and west, and north, and south,--all these rich lands were bought with your Uncle William'sbrought e late in life had in a manner defrauded ain made me the heir to the Hyde earldom; and that after me, the succession is yours Tell hter Annie, a girl of fourteen or fifteen years"

"What will become of her when her father dies?"

"Sir, how can I divine her future?"

"It is your duty to divine her future Her father has no gold to leave her--he gave it to me--and the land he cannot leave her; yet she has a natural right, beyond either ht, cheerfully"

"You cannot give it to her--unless you outlaw yourself from your native country--strip yourself of your citizenship--declare yourself unworthy to be a son of the land that gave you birth Even if you perpetrated such a civil criht would si man you met at Oxford--"

"Surely, sir, we need not talk of that fellow I have already told you what a very sycophant he is He licks the dust before any s down to his shoe-buckles"

"Well then, sir, what is your duty to Annie Hyde?"

"I do not conceive myself to have any special duty to Annie Hyde"

"Upon my honour, you are then perversely stupid! But it is iratitude and generosity demand from you! When your uncle wrote me that pitiful letter which inforht was that his daughter ht in the succession There is one way to compass this You knohat that way is--Why do you not speak?"