gratitude for a degree of constancy which she knew she scarcely
deserved, induced her, with Lord Foolincourt's hard-wrung consent,
to share with him a more humble, but less precarious fortune, than
that to which she had been destined as the price of a rotten
borough.



Footnotes:

{1} A mountain-wandering maid,
Twin-nourished with the solitary wood.