The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 24: what you’re looking at

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SS ed << ’ THE MYSTERIES OF THE COURT 9 —_—————— ee C., to his family ; and, taking the matter to heart, lite- | had as yet undergone no temptation. Thelr religion rally pined away until she sank into thetomb. Mr. Clarendon now found himself left, at the age af five- , with two young children totally dependent epon his care; and he resolved to perform his duty towards his motherless daughters, His family still being duprived of the more delicate supervision of a mother, and having scarcely any female society jn the seclusion which their father’s alender resources corapelled him to adopt, their minds were not imbued was confined to a mere knowledge of the sacred . writings, read and remembered like any other book, and believed in because they had been taught to hold that faith :—but the deep conviction —the holy reliance—and the profound feeling, which constitute true religion, were deficient. They went to church with regularity, as many other giddy and thoughtless young ladies go: but they never had had any one te : | impress upon them the necessity of laying aside all worldly thoughts, and throwing the whole soul into the divine worship. Good-natured, affectionate, and light-hearted girls were Octavia and Pauline Claren- don: artless, frank, and innocent likewise were they, because totally ignorant of the world’s ways, and in- experienced in its mares, its perfidies, and its deceits, When their education was completed, Mr. Cla- rendon, who had long been wearied of the dall »~ clusion in which he thus passed so many years, re- moved with his two danghters to London; and is ween ee a 8 en et nen rp ere comicloooks. conn ud