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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. Mr. Weston was a native of Highbury, and born of a respectable family, which for the last two or three generations had been rising into gentility and property. He had received a good education, but on succeeding early in life to a small independence, had become indisposed for any of the more homely pursuits in which his brothers were engaged; and had satisfied an active cheerful mind and social temper by entering into the militia of his county then embodied. Captain Weston was a general favourite; and when tht chances of his military life had introduced him to Mis, s Churchill, of a great Yorkshire family, and Miss Churchill fell in love with him, nobody was surprised except hei brother and his wife, who had never seen him, and who were full of pride and importance, which the connection would offend. Miss Churchill, however, being of age, and with the full command of her fortune ? though her fortune bore no proportion to the family-estate?was not to be dissuaded from tlie marriage, and it took place to the infinite mortification of Mr. and Mrs. Churchill, who threw her off with due decorum. It was an unsuitable connection, and did not produce much happiness. Mrs. Weston ought to have found more in it, for she had a husband whose warm heart and sweet temper made him think every thing due to her in return for the great goodness of being in love with him; but though she had one sort of spirit, she had not the best. She had resolution enough to pursue her own will in spite -of her brother, but not enough to refrain from unreasonable regrets at that brother's unreasonable anger, nor from missing the luxuries of her former home. They lived beyond their income, but still it was nothing in comparison of Enscombe: she did not cease to love her husband but she wanted at..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217945295 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217945295 |
| Weight | 1.07 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.74 In |
| List Price | $11.10 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 330 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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