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138 of flying from, he should have sought rather to have mitigated and softened.

He hired small lodgings at Kennington, the situation being healthy and airy; which would afford to Angelina the society of a Mr. and Mrs. Philimore, residing in the neighbourhood, with whom he had been intimately associated previous to his embarkation for Portugal.

Mrs. Philimore, to a truly amiable character, united gay and affable manners; rendering more apparent the congeniality between her and Angelina. As the mother of several children, he was much attached to her home; and her newly-acquired young friend, equally delighting in domestic scenes, participated in the demands her little ones made upon her care and tenderness. This growing attachment between Mrs. Philimore and his wife was to De Brooke a subject of gratification, foreseeing that thence might arise to the latter many desirable resources.

Having established himself in his new abode, duty required of him to call upon his father, then shining in the full meridian of fame,—high in honours, caressed at court, the favourite of his sovereign. The worldly parent received his son with an air more gracious than was customary: he