ABSTRACT
Gradually the father of Margaret disclosed to her the scheme, which had furnished the cause of their removal from the banks of the Severn to the vicinity of the Mersey. c . He represented to her in the most lively colours the degradation and dishonour, for such he esteemed it, in which he had so long vegetated, from even before the birth of his daughter to the present hour. He said that the noble representative of his race, for (it may be) little better than a whim, had now proposed to take off this dishonour, and restore him to his proper station. He adjured Margaret, by all the love she bore him, by the care he had exerted for / her from her earliest infancy, by the indulgences he had never withheld from her slightest wishes, not on the present occasion to make herself the obstacle to the fortune that seemed to smile upon him. He intreated her, that she would assist him to spend the remainder of his days in sunshine and content. What was good fortune to him, would also be good fortune to her. She 58would be placed in the station which she was so eminently qualified to adorn. She would be the boast and the ornament of her sex; and it was impossible that that which won for her the homage and commendation of all the world, should not also be a source of gratification to her own bosom. Lord Borradale was essentially a cold-hearted man; and, as he had taken them up for a purpose that pleased his own imagination, so he would cast them off without remorse, if he found himself thwarted of that purpose.
