The Young Duchess; or, Memoirs of a Lady of Quality — page 383: what you’re looking at

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369 | SA A cD THE YOUNG DUCHESS; OR, MEMOIRS OF A LADY OF QUALITY. Yiy a “NY, Msn Oy) Mh, WN Yip if. yy Wy YE y tht nog SS S SEES -3 8 2 ‘SS °, RS hi Up, OM, Ly WW | Wf yppyira, Uy Wty, Y ADEUAIDE CLARKE. “ Think you, Mr. Ponsford, that it was for a ; have not leisure to enter into details: I must speed back to Highgate and report to Lady Amesbury.the issue of my embassy. She dwells at Charlton Villa; and thither may you follow me, Mr. Ponsford—but not immediately; for I must have time to prepare her ladyship to receive you — it will be likewise necessary to prepare Hester to receive her father; for as yet she does not even know your name!” . ‘‘And I also, Mr. Walpole,” responded the mere idle purpose, or in any aimless mood, that her ladyship sent me on my present mission to you? If I were bidden to come and tell you that your daughter lived, and was found, and was restored to her mother, — think you that i¢ must not have been likewise to tell you that if your feelings prompted you to hasten to that spot and to clasp your child to your breast, you would be welcomed ?” “T will go, Mr. Walpole—I will go,” answered | Squire, ‘must have some little interval to pre- ‘But tell me something of my | pare my own mind—aye, and to compose the feel- When was she restored to her } ings which have just been so powerfully agitated Ponsford. daughter! mother ?” by the intelligence you have brought. It were ‘‘ Only a week ago,” rejoined Walpole. perhaps better, therefore, if a few hours were suffered to elapse——” “ And why did Warren practise that gross de- ‘‘ Beit so,” rejoined the young man, rising to ception upon me?” demanded the Squire: “ why did he——” depart. “y ‘Yet one word more ere you take your depar- “‘ Question me not now,” said the youth. No. 47.—THE Youne DucHeEss. YN Wn) b COMO Colin