This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 edition. Excerpt: ... of a return to Binford; for although other reasons had been given to inquiring friends, Lovell was as perfectly aware of his daughter's true motive for quitting the Parsonage and changing the scene of her existence for a short time, as she herself was. Fanny's letter, it was evident, would change the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 edition. Excerpt: ... of a return to Binford; for although other reasons had been given to inquiring friends, Lovell was as perfectly aware of his daughter's true motive for quitting the Parsonage and changing the scene of her existence for a short time, as she herself was. Fanny's letter, it was evident, would change the whole complexion of affairs, and the devoted girl would anxiously desire to return to the spot which had derived intense interest, in her mind from an association with Sheringham, and which now, that he had declared himself, would bring back to her thoughts the pleasure she had experienced in his society, and to her hopes the anticipation of future happiness, instead of offering to her recollection only the bitter memorials of departed joy, and the still more painful evidences of his cruelty and falsehood. Consistency nevertheless, and a regard for outward show, required that Emma's stay at Merringham should be prolonged for a few days. However, the period of what now appeared to her, her banishment from Binford, was ingeniously abbreviated by the alleged impossibility of Mr. Lovell's being absent from his duty on the following Sunday, and therefore, on the Saturday next, the Parson and his daughter were to return to their peaceful home. Lady Frances, who had so entirely rejoiced in the absence of the Lovells during her son's flying visit, felt now perfectly secure of his escape from the clutches of his rural beauty, for she did not know that he had been favoured with a tete-a-tete, in his visit to Mrs. Harbottle, nor was she sufficiently certain of the character of his friendship, for that lady, to determine (even if she had known of it) whether he would choose to jeopardize his own pretensions towards her favour, by making a confidence...
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