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 ing her arm round her neck, clasped her to a heart, whose strong emotions, for a few moments, overpowered her utterance. "Believe me (she cried, as soon as she had recovered her voice) when I declare, that the chief pleasure I look forward to, is that which I shall receive from your society; she who was beloved by my mother, and who loved her, must on these accounts, even if not possessed of half your powers of pleasing, be dear and precious to me; with the truest gratitude I now thank you for all your kind attentions to her."

"Ah Madam! (said Madeline, melting into tears) you surely must be ignorant of my great obligations to her, or you never could speak to me in this manner; did you know them, you would certainly think as I do, that I never did, never could do any thing adequate to the gratitude they excited; she was the only person from whom I ever received the tenderness of a mother, and as daughters must, I imagine, love their mothers, I loved her."