Alfred de Rosann — page 120: what you’re looking at

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ALFRED DE ROSANN, 111 Alfred was first accused of a dreadful act of turpitude. Mrs. Clayton never demonstrated so much affection, nor showed so many instances of sincere love towards her innocent daughter before: and Eloise was half inclined to throw herself on hér mother’s bosom, and confess her permanent attachment to De Rosann, as well as the fact of their secret correspondence, when she received the caresses of a parent from whom she now withheld, for the first time in her life, the thoughts and reflections of her secret soul. P But she happily called to mind the injunctions of her uncle ; and satisfied her conscience with the con- viction of acting under his sanction and auspices. She knew that he would be the last person in the world to mislead her—that his ideas of propriety would not permit him to suffer his niece to violate, in the slightest degree, the strict laws of decorum and female delicacy—and that he merely moderated by his indulgence the harsh decrees of her mother. With these impressions, Eloise calmed her agitated mind, and satisfied all her scruples, determining to follow her uncle’s advice in this matter, and her mother’s in every other—a compromise at which the most punc- tilious of our readers cannot express the smallest dis- approbation, inasmuch as parental solicitude cannot always discriminate clearly in affairs so particularly eonnected with achild’s present and future happiness. COnniecoooks (E@)