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which ( Jid not . e $ ce $ d ^ frlJ 5 p » enclosed hiao notes andcasUtp . the amount of fhe / wl $$ e . r ^ ntreceived since his father ' s death , with the interest , and a year in advance , and added that this would be the last communication between them . Walter begged to depart from this last injunction in one particular . He retained
half the yearly advance of rent , and enclosing the rest in a blank envelope , left it with his sister to place in her uncle ' s possession after he had taken his departure . The following morning he bade an affectionate and hopeful farewell of her , bidding her look forward to a speedy reunion , and promising to write often ; and with his tutor set forth to enter that world whose fiat he had
so uncompromisingly defied . We must pass over very briefly the events that happened ere the brother and sister again met . For some time Emma . bitterly lamented over her brother ' absence ; but time , which he ^ ds all grievances where the heartstrings are not absolutely cracked
asunder , soon quieted her into an uncomplaining submissive girl . She was now looked upon as old Brandon ' s acknowledged . heiress , and there were not wanting many of the neighbouring sciops of the adjoining estate-holders , who seemed to think the connexion a desirable one . But old Brando » V " views were far too ambitious ;
for Emma had not the beauty which could attract for its own sake , nor sufficient wealth to tempt rank to the condescension of marrying beneath itself . He had the mortification of seeing her dance with half-pay officers at county bails , while the sons of earls p assed her by with utter indifference . He was beginning to despair of success , when chance threw into his way a Sir James Bingbam , a son of an old friend with whom he had formerly been intimate . He decided , at last , that a baronet would be better thau
nothiug ; and Sir James deciding , at the same time , that money was a thing which , if weighed in the balance , would be found wanting iu him , and consequently very acceptable , it was filially resolved that for a con-si-de-ration Sir James Biugham should be soon Sir James Brandon , taking the estate that bore that name ,
and a wife into the bargain . The father of Sir James had sprung from low origin , had made a fortune by government contracts , had purchased his baronetcy , and had since lost the greater part of his wealth b y linking himself with an insecure banking establishment . His only son , meantime , had grown up to be ashamed of him , and to make the only principle through life thai oi
standing well with the world , and supporting his name with dignity . With a handsome person , cold as an icicle , with manners too evidently the result of study to be those of one of nature ' s gentlemen - with conduct squared to what some called the strictest rules of virtue , but which was , in fact , only strict adherence to worldly policy , he continued to g&iu a reputation for being one of the i&pet * respectable' men in the county ; and wWpu Walter , soott softer having parted with his sister , heard of her approaefciag marriage
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 469, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/33/
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