Barford Abbey by Susannah Minific Gunning
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transports will be when I embrace an only child:--yes, you are mine,
till I deliver you up to a superior affection. Lay aside, I conjure you, your fears of crossing the sea.--Mr. and Mrs. Smith intend spending part of this winter at Montpelier: trust yourself with them; I shall be there to receive you at the Hôtel de Spence. The season for the Spaw is almost at an end. My physicians forbid my return to England till next autumn, else I would fly to comfort,--to console my dearest Fanny,--We shall be happy together in France:--I can love you the same in all places. My banker has orders to remit you three hundred pounds;--but your power is unlimited; it is impossible to say, my dear, how much I am in your debt.--I have wrote my housekeeper to get every thing ready for your reception:--consider her, and all my other servants, as your own.--I shall be much disappointed if you do not move to the Lodge immediately.--You shall not,--must not,--continue in a house where every thing in and about it reminds you of so great a loss.--Miss West, Miss Gardner, Miss Conway, will, at my request, accompany you thither.--The Menagerie,--plantations, and other places of amusement, will naturally draw them out;--you will follow mechanically, and by that means be kept from indulging melancholy.--Go an-airing every day, unless you intend I shall find my horses unfit for service:--why have you let them live so long idle? I revere honest Jenkings--he is faithful,--he will assist you with his advice on all occasions.--Can there be a better resource to fly to, than a heart governed by principles of honour and humanity? |
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