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lett has hinted to us, of making another visit to it. His sister's match with Lord G---- is one of his cares. He has services to perform for his friend Beauchamp, with his father and mother-in-law, for the facilitating his coming over. The apprehended visit of Olivia gives him disturbance. And the Bologna family in its various branches, and more especially Signor Jeronymo's dangerous state of health, and Signora Clementina's disordered mind--O, Lucy!--What leisure has this man to be in love?--Yet how can I say so, when he is in love already? And with Clementina.--And don't you think, that when he goes to France on the executorship account, he will make a visit to Bologna?--Ah, my dear, to be sure he will. After he has left England, therefore, which I suppose he will quickly do, and when I am in Northamptonshire, what opportunities will your Harriet have to see him, except she can obtain, as a favour, the power of obliging his Emily, in her request to be with her? Then, Lucy, he may, on his return to England, once a year or so, on his visiting his ward, see, and thank for her care and love of his Emily, his half-estranged Harriet!--Perhaps Lady Clementina Grandison will be with him! God restore her! Surely I shall be capable, if she be Lady Grandison, of rejoicing in her recovery!---- Fie upon it!--Why this involuntary tear? You would see it by the large blot it has made, if I did not mention it. Excellent man!--Dr. Bartlett has just been telling me of a morning visit he received, before he went out of town, from the two sons of Mrs. Oldham. One of them is about seven years old; the other about five; very fine children. He embraced them, the doctor says, with as much tenderness, as if they were children of his own mother. He enquired into their inclinations, behaviour, diversions; and engaged equally their love and reverence. He told them, that, if they were good, he would love them; and said, he had a dear friend, whom he reverenced as his father, a man with white curling locks, he told the children, that they might know him at first sight, who would now-and-then, as he happened to be in town, make enquiries after their good behaviour, and reward them, as they gave him cause. Accordingly he had desired Dr. Bartlett to give them occasionally his countenance; as also to let their mother know, that he should be glad of a visit from her, and her three children, on his return to town. The doctor had bee
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