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'218 THE MAN OF' FEELING-
would have been afhamed of • my Ton Ed¬
ward goes abroad, would you take him
under your protection He blufhed—
•my fathers face was fcarlet—he prefied
his band to his bofem, as if he had faid>
—my lieart does not mean to offend you.
Mountford fighed twice—“ lama proud
fool, fftid he, and you will pardon it;—
{there1 he fighed again) I can hear of
drpendance, fince it is depeiidance on
m) Scdley.” “ Oependance! anfwered
my father; there can be no fuch word
between us ; what is there in 9006/. a
year that fhould make me unworthy of
Mountford’s friendlhip They em¬
braced ; and foon after I fet out on my
travels, with Mountford for my guardian.
“ We Were at Milan, where my father
happened to have an Italian friend, to
Whom he had been of fome fervice in Eng¬
land. The count, for he was of quality,
was folicitous to return the obligation, by
.a particular attention to his fon : We
lived j