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102, the mortification of offended pride unhappily prevailed, at a time when the young De Brooke was as open to conviction as he was new in the commission of error; and who, if found to be impatient of control, was yet mild; if extravagant, was yet generous; and if intemperate in the pursuit of pleasure, was no less ardent in every feeling of kindness and humanity.

But that which, above all other circumstances, conspired to alienate the affections of Sir Aubrey from his son, was his total aversion to a match he had set his mind upon, between the youthful Aubrey and a woman of high birth, an heiress, but counting nearly double his years. Unforgiving and relentless, in thus having his ambitious plans frustrated, to afford his mind alleviation under the wounds he had received on his son's account, he resolved a second time to banish him from his sight, and to send him to a foreign country; and for this an occasion soon presented itself.

General Sandford, with whom he was intimately acquainted, being at that particidar juncture despatched to Portugal, with the command of the British auxiliary army, was rejoiced to find he had it in his power to oblige both Sir Aubrey and his son, by appointing the latter his aide-de-camp. After, therefore, taking an affectionate leave of his mother