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the unhappy resemblance between the fate of mother and
daughter! and so imperfectly have I discharged my trust!’
‘Is she still in town?’
‘No; as soon as she recovered from her lying-in, for I
found her near her delivery, I removed her and her child
into the country, and there she remains.’
Recollecting, soon afterwards, that he was probably
dividing Elinor from her sister, he put an end to his visit, re-
ceiving from her again the same grateful acknowledgments,
and leaving her full of compassion and esteem for him.