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 fered your pension to have run on for another year; but my dear girl, your father cannot stoop to even a negative imposition, and in the incertitude of the success my present plan may lead to, I could not subject you to receive obligations, to be indebted for your support, whilst I had a doubt upon my mind that I might possibly fail in the power of making the just returns due for your maintenance.

"I grieve only for you, my child; but I trust Heaven will give you strength of mind to encounter with the evils of poverty, when unaccompanied with guilt or remorse. I have sought for a retirement where you may not be absolutely excluded from society, but where you may live unknown, and free from observation, without the danger of being subjected to the triumph of insolent prosperity over indigent merit. Louisa, you was nursed in obscurity; to that obscurity you must return. I had flattered myself with far better hopes for you; but those are no more, and we must submit to the fate that