Lady Anne and Lady Jane

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 edition. Excerpt: ...tion will forbid me either to enjoy, or to improve; while I everyday undermine that life of misery,-by having recourse to opiates to suspend my sense of sufl'eri-ng-? Oh! Lady Anne, if your timely assistance could prevent the realization of tlu'_s,pic.--W ture, tore, would it o'ot:-:beas great; 'an actwf, beaevolemw'-to aflbrd it for, that;p11_'p¢1$fl, as-to aid due tradesman or make the fora tune of another 2?: o--',,, _"_.W-'-;-, Lady Anne shuddered while shelistenp, edto her; for she'-well knew-th2tith,Q ioicture now only the creature of imagina;--,, tion, mightonly too soon become a-re9.lity;' and after-commurting with herself some time in silence, she at last said-, "-1 haveat this moment in my banker'shands a pretty? considerable sum: it was destinednforother purposes: but if this sum-can be use in removing '1 your embarrassments,-, preserving you and Percy-from'the' horrors you have described and I foresee; it is at your service; but--'-' Here Ladfi Jane interrupted her by clamorous BX-; pressions of gratitude, and with embrace which Lady Anne as yet could not-prevail on herself to return. cy f" Don'-t interrirpt me," said LadyAnne: A'mlé": '"5 I-WM '1b-t'ell' you that more Ioeuinot,' will not do-; and_if you are ever inirtlkeil agbin,-you/must takothe consequences of your own actions, and, how-' ever reluctantly, disr:loi;e-all to your husband. My paternal estates are, you know, entailed, on the male heir: but! have the fee of those which I derive from my mochar; andlcan, if I choose, sell or do What I please with one of them: but this liuiill-not do, for the sake of one very dear to--me. The elder of your...