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[Narron <ichthyosaur@komulder.nl>]

, let me determine as I will.' In this irresolution, Miss Melvyn left
her friend, but the vent she had given to her grief had greatly calmed
her spirits and restored her to the power of reflection. At her entrance
into the house, she met Lady Melvyn, who with a very stern countenance
ordered her to go and entertain Mr Morgan, who waited for her in the
parlour. She found him alone, and as he began to renew his addresses,
which a repulse from her had not discouraged, since he hoped to succeed
by the influence her parents had over her, she immediately formed the
resolution of endeavouring to make him relinquish his pretensions, in
hopes that if the refusal came from him, he might become the object of
her mother's indignation, and her persecution might drop, at least for a
time. She therefore frankly told him, that tho' her affections were
entirely disengaged, yet he was so very repugnant to them that it was
impossible she should ever feel that regard for him which he had a right
to expect from his wife; and therefore intreated him, in consideration
of his own happiness, if hers were indifferent to him, not to persist in
a pursuit which, if successful, could not answer his hopes, nor reduce
her to render herself wretched by becoming his wife, or to exasperate
her parents by refusing him. She then added all her hear