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 consent, sir? I love books which teach a proper deference in young persons to their parents. In a novel they may fall in love without their countenance, because it is essential to the necessary intricacy of the story, but they must always have the benefit of their countenance at last. Even old Delville received Cecilia, though the daughter of a man of low birth."

"And even so, madam, Lady Margaret was prevailed on to countenance Morton, although the old Covenanter, his father, stuck sorely with her for some time. Edith was her only hope, and she wished to see her happy; Morton, or Melville Morton, as he was more generally called, stood so high in the reputation of the world, and was in every other respect such an eligible match, that she put her prejudice aside, and consoled herself with the recollection, that marriage went by destiny, as was observed to her, she said, by his most Sacred Majesty, Charles the Second of happy memory, when she shewed him the