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d the opportunity, trusting, if he could now effect his re-establishment, that he should easily preserve the ground he had gained, even in the face of his formidable rival. Mr. Tyrrel was not deficient i morse, officiate as the spectator, or even as the author and director, of a scene of vulgar distress. But even he was somewhat startled upon the present occasion. The character and condu a s found in the morning with a high fever. Her distemper resisted for the present all attempts to assuage it, though there was re would ultimately surmount it. On the second day she was delirious. On the night of that day she was arrested at the suit of Mr. ily had considerably subsided, the moment she believed herself in a place of safety. While danger and injustice assailed her with their never consent to marry a beggar. But, if he were proud, she was determined to be proud too. He should see that she would not conduct herself like a slighted maiden, and that, though he co ffected a heart of stone. Then the figure of Falkland presented itself to her distracted fancy, deformed with wounds, and of ahe was in some degree fitted by a sanguine temper, and an impassioned sense of injustice, for the discharge ofhose very that repose was most necessary for her preservation. Her fever became more violent; her delirium was stronger; and the tortures of huth, her vivacity, and her guileless innocence, without emoti d thought proper to confine her to her chamber. But at that time he had probably no serious conception of ever being induced to carry it into execution. It had merely been mentioned by wa s had long been accustomed to contemplate every possible instrument of tyranny and revenge. But now, that the unlooked-for rescue and escape of his poor kinswoman had wrought up his thointelligence was rather calculated, with a man of Mr. Tyrrel’s disposition, to excite defiance than to overawe. At the door of the assembly he was personally met by the master of the cerem ust aside by Mr. Tyrrel with an air of native authority and ineffable contempt. As he entered; every
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