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 bore any resentment against her, for that she had treated his daughter like a sister.

"I can have no resentment," he returned, "against any of this party; for I never feel resentment, where I have not previously felt respect." So saying, he quitted them, and went to another room.

In the evening he received a note from my sister, entreating to be admitted. I shall at some other time give you a particular account of all that passed; it is enough at present to say, that they consented to remain with him at Perth, until they could be regularly married, which they were on the following Monday; after which they came all together to Edinburgh, where my father had scarcely arrived before he was seized with a return of what we here call a rose fever; a disorder to which he has been often subject. I set off for Edinburgh immediately on hearing of his illness, and found him much distressed in spirits, but not, the physician assured me, in any danger. My father told