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which i $ within the peculiar province of a parent , was yet gl&d ef the opportunity to procure for her the benefit of instruction in more external accomplishments . Sir James was in terror ( at least as near to terror as his cold temperament would permit him tocome ) at the proposed plan . He saw the coming chaos of all hi * stiff , angular , and yet card-house , morality , being upset by the new comers ; and he looked with fear and trembling to the result to his daughter ; and not without reason , at least the reason by which he was governed . Emma soon ran unbonneted through the gar- >
den ; was in danger of becoming as brown as a gipsy , or her cousin Flora ; clambered a tree to sit in its boughs at her lessons ; rode a little wild Shetland pony without saddle or bricjle ; became Flora ' s disciple in her work of redemption for all the op * pressed dogs and donkeys that were victimized by the young tyrants of the adjacent village ; and committed a thousand other misdemeanors quite inconsistent with Sir James ' s pre-conceived notions of young lady decorum . It was impossible to order
Walter Brandon and his child from their own home , —equally so to forbid the interchange of the families . Accordingly he resolved , before any further mischief was done , upon dismissing the goyer * ness , and sending Emma out of the mischievous influence . A . n opportunity was not long in being found . High terms offered for an external education are sure to find their market ; and accordingly Emma was soon domiciled in a family , where , in return for
their condescending to give her an opportunity of not being contaminated by the beauty , sweetness , grace , and freedom of one of nature ' s own children , Sir James was to give them sufficient to maintain the carriage and horses which unfortunate circumstances had obliged them for a time to relinquish . Lady Brandon , accustomed as she was to yield to circumstances , made two or three efforts to retain her child , but Sir James ' s stronger will carried the day , and Emma left her home to be educated , i . e . to become a slave to the
follies and forms of the heartless world to which her father rendered such devout homage . Flora gradually ceased to lament the absence of her cousin , who had never been sufficiently a companion for her ; while Lady Brandon ' s attachment continued to strengthen , bound as she was by the double tie of sisterly devotion
to the father to whom she was attached more strongly than to any other being , and affection for his child , Though Flora ' s manners were at times somewhat exuberant , yet the earnest warmth of her heart more than repaid her for any slight shock she might receive ; and often would she delight to quit the cold magnificence of the Hall to warm her heart at the welcome that always awaited her at the cottage . To that cottage we will now make our way by the side of Flora ; and we must not refuse to follow her * aver park , over pale , thorough bush , thorough briar / as she makes rapid way towards * the stile at this end of the wood / where her fattier already awaited her arrival . He watched her as she came bound *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 519, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/19/
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