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Image 1 of The father and daughter: a tale. FT MEADE GenCol 1 .0614 Fat COPY 1- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 3 of The father and daughter: a tale. THE FATHER AND DAUGHTER: A TALE. v ,v l o v BY AMELIA OPIE. u Thy sweet reviving smiles might cheer despair, On the pale lips detain the parting breath, And bid...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 5 of The father and daughter: a tale. ?/A THE FATHER AND DAUGHTER, THE night was dark,. ..the wind blew keenly over the frozen and rugged heath, when Agnes, pressing her moaning child to her bosom, was tra- velling on...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 6 of The father and daughter: a tale. 4 y He was not rich, yet the profits of his trade were such as to enable him to bestow every possible ex- pense on his daughter’s education, and to lay up...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 7 of The father and daughter: a tale. 5 and Agnes thought she loved him as a child never before loved a father. u I will not marry, but live single for my father’s sake,” she oft^n said but she...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 8 of The father and daughter: a tale. 6 But to accomplish even these paltry triumphs, great knowledge of the human heart was necessary* a power of discovering the prevailing foible in those on whom he had designs, and of...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 9 of The father and daughter: a tale. 7 I have been thus minute in detailing the various and seducing powers which Clifford possessed, not because he will be a principal figure in my narrative, for, on the contrary, the...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 10 of The father and daughter: a tale. 8 called forth her respect, and his apparent virtues her esteem; and, when to this high idea of the qualities of the man, was added a knowledge of his high birth and...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 11 of The father and daughter: a tale. 9 daughter; and Fitzhenry, as he expected, coldly and firmly declined the honor of his alliance. But when Clifford mentioned, as if unguardedly, that he hoped to prevail on his father to...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 12 of The father and daughter: a tale. 10 But, above all,” said he, how is it possible that you could ever condescend to accept the ad- dresses of a man whose father, he himself owns, will never sanction them...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 13 of The father and daughter: a tale. 11 Fitzhenry would scorn to be clandestinely the wife of any man.” Agnes thought so too and Fitzhenry spoke this in so mild and affectionate a manner, and in a tone so...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 14 of The father and daughter: a tale. 12 a dislike of her marrying him, but a design to prevent her marrying at all and, as a design like this was selfish in the last degree, and ought not to...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 15 of The father and daughter: a tale. 13 gratification, was, in this instance at least, the slave of unwarrantable selfishness. At last, finding neither time, reflection, nor even a temporary absence, had the slightest effect on her attachment, but...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 16 of The father and daughter: a tale. 14 sure I shall long as ardently to forgive her!” Then his arms were folded in fancy round his child, whom he pictured to himself confessing her marriage to him, and upon...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 17 of The father and daughter: a tale. 15 put herself in the power of a designing libertine No! Vanity and self-love forbade this salutary suspicion to enter her imagination; and, without one scruple, or one reproach, she acceded to...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 18 of The father and daughter: a tale. 16 me a right to call you by that tender name.” In a few days exclaimed Agnes, withdrawing from his embrace, cannot the marriage take place to- morrow?” “Impossible!” replied Clifford, “you...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 19 of The father and daughter: a tale. 17 been for Agnes, had she adhered to this resolution, but vanity and self-confidence again interfered What have I to fear?” said Agnes to herself: am I so fallen in my own...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 20 of The father and daughter: a tale. IB will return to me before you embark, in order to make me your wife said the half distracted Ag- nes a you will not leave me to shame as well as...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 21 of The father and daughter: a tale. 19 in your face, and see your eyes beaming with fond- ness on her, can now never dare to meet their glance again.” But, though Agnes dared not presume to write to...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 22 of The father and daughter: a tale. 20 Then, by degrees, she became calmer; and re- joiced, fervently rejoiced, in her father’s second marriage, though she felt it as too convincing a proof how completely he had thrown her...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 23 of The father and daughter: a tale. 21 family, must be, as well as its mother, a strange even to its nearest relation But, in proportion to her trials, seemed to be Agnes’s power of rising superior to them...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 24 of The father and daughter: a tale. deceiver gave at length, after many entreaties on her part, and feigned reluctance on his. He told her his father’s illness was occasioned by his having been informed that he was privately...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 25 of The father and daughter: a tale. 25 his father’s life depended on it. u O! no,” replied Agnes, with a bitter smile, you wrong yourself you are too good a son to have been capable of hesitating a...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 26 of The father and daughter: a tale. 24 being too much softened by them but, by the time he had reached the end of the street, always alive to the impressions of the present moment, the sight of some...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 27 of The father and daughter: a tale. 25 yet prevailed on her to make, from the plan of re- tirement she had adopted. One evening, however, Clifford was so unusually tirgent with her to accompany him to Brury-lane, to...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 28 of The father and daughter: a tale. 26 and she had been some minutes absorbed in this pleasing employment, when two gentlemen entered the box where she was, and seated themselves be- hind her, u Who is that elegant,...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 29 of The father and daughter: a tale. 27 Agnes started: Clifford himself had told her he must leave her on Monday for some weeks and, in breathless expectation, she listened to what fol- lowed. But what then?” continued his...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 30 of The father and daughter: a tale. 28 u I never wish,” said the colonel, 44 a match of interest to be a happy one. 5 44 Nor will this be so, depend on it,” answered his lordship 44...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 31 of The father and daughter: a tale. 29 once the pride of her father, and the town she lived in.” Agnes could scarcely forbear groaning aloud at this faithful picture of what she once was. Poor thing!” resumed his...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 32 of The father and daughter: a tale. 30 gave Clifford room to fear that she might, at some future moment, if discontented with him, return to her afflicted parent before he was tired of her; so what do you...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 33 of The father and daughter: a tale. 31 gross to repeat, desired her to leave the house, and act her drunken freaks elsewhere. Agnes, whom the gentlemen behind were sup- porting with great kindness and compassion, heard nothing of...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 34 of The father and daughter: a tale. 32 Agnes: Thank God he is well! but is he marri- ed?” Married! dear me, no; he is....” Do you think he would forgive me eagerly rejoined Agnes. Forgive vou!” answered the...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 35 of The father and daughter: a tale. 33 perfidy and cruelty. Mrs, Askew thought her in- sane Clifford wished to think her so but his con- science told him that, if by accident his conduct had been discovered to...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 36 of The father and daughter: a tale. 34 Plague on his prating lordship He has destroyed the prettiest arrangement ever made. However, we shall part good friends as ever.” Great God cried Agnes, raising her tearless eyes to heaven,...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 37 of The father and daughter: a tale. 35 expressions of a disappointed woman. Besides, he knew that at that time she was scantily supplied with money, and that Mrs. Askew dared not fur- nish her with any for the...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 38 of The father and daughter: a tale. 36 which I breathe here is uncontaminated by his breath!” when, as the watchman called past eleven o’clock, the recollection that she had no place of shelter for the night occurred to...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 39 of The father and daughter: a tale. 37 and to equip herself in such a manner as should, while it screened her from the inclemency of the weather, at the same time prevent her being recog- nized by any...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia
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Image 40 of The father and daughter: a tale. 38 necessaries to enable her to resist the severity of the weather, she found it was impossible for her to reach her long-forsaken home before day-break. Still she was resolved to go...- Contributor: Opie, Amelia