, 
my Juliana, never more to part." 

 and  so overpowered her senses, as to 
render her for some time unable to attend to his . 
When she grew composed, he told her he was returned to make 
her honorably his ; but to effect this intention, a journey from 
the hamlet was requisite. She turned pale at these words, and 
declared she never would consent ,to a clandestine measure. 
This declaration did not discourage Belgrave ; he knew the in- 
terest he had in her , and this knowledge gave an energy 
to.his arguments, which gradually undermined the resolution of 
Juliana. Already, he said, she had made a sufficient sacrifice 
to filial duty ; surely something was now due to wordnetdesire like his, 
which, on her account, would cheerfully submit to innumerable 
difficulties. As he was under age, a journey to Scotland was 
unavoidable, he said, and he would have,made me his confidant 
on the occasion, but that he feared my scrupulous delicacy 
would have opposed his intentions, as contrary to parental au- 
thority. He promised Juliana to bring her back to the ham- 



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let immediately after the ceremony ; in short, the plausibility 
of his arguments, the  of his persuasions, at last 
produced the effect he wished