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dependencies j I mean it not as an argu¬
ment againft the pafilon; that fex, I truft,
whofe power it eftablifhes, will poirfit its
vaflals to no purfuit but what is laudable.
Their farewel fcene pafied'on that very
fpot, which I have defcribed in the laft
chapter, as witnefs to the declaration of
Bolton’s paflion. Their farewel but
where the feelings fay much, and the ex-
preffion little, defcription will feldom fuc-
ceed in the pitlure.
Their reparation, however, was allevi¬
ated by the hope that it was not likely to
be of long continuance: Sir Thomas’s
declaration, of his intending that Harry
Ihould follow them in a few months, was
not forgotten j and the intermediate days
were fwallowed up, in the anticipation of
the pleafures which that period fhould
produce.
In the mean time, they took fomething
from the pain of abfence by a punctual
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