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  then in this country, and if he was to   own his marriage with me he would be diſinherited, and we would be both undone; but he promiſed to give me  his beſt advice how I ſhould behave in the matter; ſo we parted for that time. The next opportunity I preſſed him hard what I ſhould do in this my  unhappy ſituation. After a little ſilence he plainly told me, that the only way he could think of to ſerve us both, was to comply with his brother's propoſal, which, he had no ſooner mentioned, than I was fit to have ſunk down thro, the chair I ſat on with horror and ſur- priſe, and fainted away. After I had recovered myſelf a little, he continued to ſoothe me with many flattering words, and at the ſame time, inſiſting as before, of the uavoidable ruin it  would be to us both, if I did not com- ply; and at the ſame time, told me, that conſidering his brother's paſſion for me, he made no doubt of procur- ing his mother's conſent to the mar- riage; but I bitterly reproached him, how he thought I could be his whore, and a wife to his brother. But to be  ſhort, he manag'd matters ſo well that