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 expectations never to be realised, by passing the impossible decree, that nothing must be denied to her, eldest brother's eldest son; had authorised demands from him, and licensed wishes, destructive both to his understanding and his happiness. When the difficulties which this decree occasioned, devolved upon a domestic, she left him to get rid of them as he could; only reserving to herself the right to blame the way that was taken, be it what it might: but when the embarrassment fell to her own lot; when the spoilt urchin claimed what was every way unattainable; she had been in the habit of sending him abroad, for the immediate relief of her nerves. The favour into which he took Juliet now offered a new and more convenient resource. Instead of "Order the carriage, and let the child go out:" Miss Ellis was called upon to play with him, to tell him stories; to shew him pictures; to build houses for him with cards; or to suffer herself to be dragged