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yourself to be tied up, as a bond-woman, till you are formally released form those foul shackles. Do I state the case right?"
"Oh far, far too acurately! And even now, at a moment so blest! I must tear myself away,—by my own will, with whatever horrour!—from the sweetest of sisters,—from you, my kindest brother!—and from the most benevolent of uncles, by a separation a thousand times more dreadful than any death!"
"Take comfort, sweet sister! take comfort, loveliest Miss Ellis!—for I can't help calling you Miss Ellis, now and then, a little while longer:—I have a plan to make you free! to set you completely at liberty, and yet save that excellent Bishop!—"
"Oh my lord! how heavenly an idea!—but how impossible!"
"Not at all! 'tis the easiest thing in the world! only hear me. That wretch who claims you, shall have the portion
