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THE MAN OF FEELING. 103
the peace of one to whom he profeued
fuch an attachment, to remove it by a
marriage. He made an excufe from
the dependance he was under on the
will of his father, but quieted my fcar^
by the promife of endeavouring to \via
his afient.
“ My father had been feme days abfent
on a journey, to fee a relation, who was
thought to be dying, from whom he had
eonfiderable expectations. I was left at
borne with no other company than my
books : my boons 1 found were not now
fuch companions as they uf-d to be ; I
was " reftlefs, melancholy, unfatisfied with
myfelf. But judge my fituation when
I received a bulet from Mr. Winhrocke,
informing me, that he bed founded ; >ir
G' orge on the fubjecl. we !ud talked of,
and found him fo averfe to any match
fo unequal to his own rank and fortune,
that he waa obu ed, with whatever re-
)uttance, to bid adieu to a place, the
remem-