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sincere love of virtue, beamed benignly, as he looked at her, in every feature of his kind, though furrowed face.

Juliet was sensibly touched by his goodness and liberality, which surprized from her all precaution; and the concession which she had refused to arrogant menace, she spontaneously granted, to secure the good will of her ancient, though unconscious friend. Raising, therefore, her eyes, in which an expression of gratitude took place of that of sadness, "I will not, Sir," she said, "resist your counsel; though I have in nothing forfeited my inherent right to the inviolability of my property."

She then put her work-bag into his own hands.

He received it with a bow down to the ground; while joy almost capered in his old eyes; and, exultingly turning to Mrs. Howel, "To my seeming, Madam," he said, "this young gentlewoman is as well-behaved a girl, as a man might wish to meet with, from one