A Winter in London; Or, Sketches of Fashion : a Novel .. 1
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H I see the agony of your mind. Oh ! Wherefore have you sought this disco- very ? 'Tis true, I am — I am your fa- ther ! And no less true it is, that my ac- cursed groundless jealousy compelled your mother and her friend to flight, with thee,, a suckling infant, in her arms. They were delivered by the hand of fate to death ; when you were rescued to become the punish- ment, the torture of your guilty father." " Oh, no, no, no ! Recall those horrid words. No ! though I will mourn for ever the dr...eadful loss of her who was my mo- ther, how can I so well administer to the 158 A WINTER, peace of her adored spirit, as by affording every consolation of love and duty to my unhappy father ? Oh, let me — let me clasp those knees ; let me for ever entwine my arms around them, and never from this hour be separated from the presence of my fa- ther !" The stranger wept. " Oh, do not kill me with this cruel silence. I am young ; and perhaps you deem me not sufficiently discreet to be intrusted with a.11 your secret.
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