ABSTRACT
Mrs. Montgomery received Miss Chesterville with transport. The attachments of her warm and sensible heart were now entirely circumscribed to her son and Ethelinde. She loved them with the most warm and anxious fondness; the hopes of seeing them one day united, and enjoying competence if not affluence, animated her courage to embark again in irksome attention to pecuniary business; and in that hope she had reconciled herself to the prospect of parting with her son, if it became necessary for him, to seek his fortune in another hemisphere. The dejection of Ethelinde; the tears she shed in speaking of the parent she had so recently lost; the desolate situation she was in, on which topic, however, she touched but slightly; and the tenderness, that, without acknowledging it by words, it was easy to see she felt for Montgomery; all served to encrease that attachment to her, of which his mother had been sensible on their first acquaintance; and with redoubled pain she reflected, that the circumstances which now appeared so threatening to her little fortune, might put it farther than ever from her power to receive into her protection the daughter of her heart.
