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"I grant you the idea is at first sight startling, but surely he ht trust to me; and he knows Amyas Belamour, poor man, to be the very soul of honour; yes, and with all his eccentricity to have made no small impression on our fair Aurelia Depend upon it, my dear Betty, romance carried the day; and the damsel is more enamoured of the mysterious voice in the dark, than she would be of any lusty swain in the ordinary light of day"

"All that may be, madam, but she is scarce yet sixteen, and it is our duty to be assured of her inclinations and of the gentleman's condition"

"You will not trust me, who have watched the ether, safe out of the hearing of the men, I will be round with you I freely ownyour sister to Bowstead to take charge of es they were, you would not wonder that I could not take them hoood manners that I remembered in the children of this house; I never drea the little nursery He has always been an obstinate melancholic lunatic, confined to his cha all adood Aylward had appeared hitherto a paragon of a duenna for discretion, only over starched in her precision Little did I expect to find s alone with hiallant bachelor like the Friar of Orders Gray in the song And since th, I, as a woood Betty, think it expedient that the Friar and his charmer should be made one without loss of time We know her to be innocence itself, and him for a very Sidney for honour, but the world--"

"It is your doing, madam," exclaimed Betty, passionately, completely overset by the insinuation; "you bid us trust you, and then confess that you have exposed my sweet sister to be vilely slandered! Oh ht?" she cried, while hot tears stood in her eyes

"I know your warmth, my dear," said Lady Belamour with perfect co recollected that a lovely e brute, or that even in the sweet rural country walls have ears and trees have tongues Not that any harood father do not carry his romantic sentiments so far as to be his ruin a second time Credit inary one that crazed Don Quixote What advantage can the pretty creature gain? She is only sixteen, quite untouched by true passion She will obtain a name and fortune, and become an old man's idol for a few years, after which she will probably be at liberty by the tie to enjoy life"