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will be no difficult matter to decide, which
had the preference in the heart of a young
woman juft in the bloom of female maturity.
My father, although he had in the begin¬
ning rather given fome countenance to the
addreftes of Killibarren^ was too obfequious
to the will of his wife, to oppofe her decrees
with any degree of refolution : fhe accufed
him of folly, for having hearkened to the
fuit of a vaflal, for a fon-in-law, when ftie
had it in her power to beftow me upon a
hufband a'moft as rich, though not fo noble,
as the Thane himfelf: in fhort, Ihe pre¬
vailed fo far over the good nature of my
father, that he gave me over to her difpo-
fal; the confequence of which was, that
the amiable Killibarren was forbid thehoufe,
and I difcharged, under the penalty of a
maternal curfe, and deprivation of fortune,
to hold any farther correfpondence with
him: but alas! the prohibition came too
late ; we had already exchanged our hearts
by reciprocal vows, too facred to be broken
fo that I found myfelf ‘under the relu&ant
neccflity of reforting to dillimulation, that
I m. ht fliun the reftraintof a total c nfine-
ment, and be thereby deprived of the plea-
fun of fuch private interviews with my be-
loveu, a. we could procure by Health. By
one artifice after another, 1 procraftinated
the conclufion of affairs with Bernard the
advocate*
will be no difficult matter to decide, which
had the preference in the heart of a young
woman juft in the bloom of female maturity.
My father, although he had in the begin¬
ning rather given fome countenance to the
addreftes of Killibarren^ was too obfequious
to the will of his wife, to oppofe her decrees
with any degree of refolution : fhe accufed
him of folly, for having hearkened to the
fuit of a vaflal, for a fon-in-law, when ftie
had it in her power to beftow me upon a
hufband a'moft as rich, though not fo noble,
as the Thane himfelf: in fhort, Ihe pre¬
vailed fo far over the good nature of my
father, that he gave me over to her difpo-
fal; the confequence of which was, that
the amiable Killibarren was forbid thehoufe,
and I difcharged, under the penalty of a
maternal curfe, and deprivation of fortune,
to hold any farther correfpondence with
him: but alas! the prohibition came too
late ; we had already exchanged our hearts
by reciprocal vows, too facred to be broken
fo that I found myfelf ‘under the relu&ant
neccflity of reforting to dillimulation, that
I m. ht fliun the reftraintof a total c nfine-
ment, and be thereby deprived of the plea-
fun of fuch private interviews with my be-
loveu, a. we could procure by Health. By
one artifice after another, 1 procraftinated
the conclufion of affairs with Bernard the
advocate*
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| Description | Or, memoirs, intrigues, and atchievements, of personages, who have been chosen by the most celebrated poets, as the fittest characters for theatrical representations. ... Vol. I. Containing the life, ... of Macbeth. By a gentleman, no professed author, but a lover of history, and of the theatre. |
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| Shelfmark | ABS.1.81.182 |
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| Description | Thousands of printed books from the Antiquarian Books of Scotland collection which dates from 1641 to the 1980s. The collection consists of 14,800 books which were published in Scotland or have a Scottish connection, e.g. through the author, printer or owner. Subjects covered include sport, education, diseases, adventure, occupations, Jacobites, politics and religion. Among the 29 languages represented are English, Gaelic, Italian, French, Russian and Swedish. |
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