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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 Excerpt:...in the world. Cicely. Oh, the gracious!--is that it?--pray, if you please, madam, don't take on so, then, for I have money. Ken. What, have yon money? Cicely. Ay, that I have:--and, while I have ten good pounds, that poor mother left me, in my box, and a silver watch, it shall never be said, that I kept it from one, in distress, who has been so kind to me. Ken. Bless your pretty little soul!--What a pity it is now, that a generous heart hasn't always a heavy purse, to keep it company. Car. My poor girl!--your grateful attachment touches me.--I must retire, and think of--Do not follow me, Cicely.--I must consult on measures to--Oh, Providence! for what misery am 1 ordained! Exit. Ken. Oh, oh, oh! Cicely. Dear, 1 hope I haven't given madam offence, by what I said. Ken. No, my sweet one!--you're a little cherubim, in a mob cap.--What will I do now?--'Faith, I hav'n't a brother, nor a nephew, nor a cousin-german, nor a father, nor any little bit of a kinsman left, to assist in this botheration.--Come, little one!--There's my watch, and my buckles, and my--By my soul, I'd pledge myself, if the pawnbroker would lend me any thing upon m». Exeunt. SCENE II. The Hotel. Enter Henry Mori, An I» and Stedfast. Sted. Be more yourself, Henry.--Firmness, in the moment of disappointment----Henri/. Disappointment!--Tis torture;--it racks me.--Caroline fled, no one knows whither;--unprotected!--perhaps, exposed to want, too!--to bifing penury!--The account, though confused, which I gathered, last night, from the unfeeling wretch in possession of the late Mr. Dormer's house Why not have gone to my father's?--Caroline might, there, have relied on an asylum. Sted. Umph!--perhaps not. Henry. Oh, Stedfast! how little you know of my worthy father's heart! Sted. Yet, I hav...