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68 He aid—he would not marry me without your conent for the world.

And pray, how came this the ubject of your converation?

I brought it up.

And what did you ay?

I aid that birth and fortune were uch old-fahioned things to me, I cared nothing about either: and that I had once heard my father declare, he hould conult my happines in marrying me, beyond any other conideration.

I will once more repeat to you my entiments. It is the cutom in this country for the children of nobility to marry only with their equals; but as my daughter’s content is more dear to me than an ancient cutom, I would betow you on the firt man I thought calculated to make you happy: by this I do not mean to ay that I hould not be everely nice in the character of the man to whom I gave you; and Mr. Anhalt, from his obligations to me, and his high ene of honour, thinks too nobly—

Would it not be noble to make the daughter of his benefactor happy?

But when that daughter is a child, and thinks like a child—— -