FRANCES BEAUMONT.
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sure all our plans will be arranged to our mutual satisfaction.
"Your gratefully
"affectionate
"Emmeline."
A letter in a gentleman's hand-writing was enclosed, and Fanny read, though with tearful eyes, the contents:
"My dear young Friend,
"My spoilt Emmeline has repeated her conversation with you yesterday; she is quite surprised that any body can refuse her anything, and so am I. Come to us you must. It would be unkindness, and not independence, to refuse that affection which you yourself lavished on a little friendless girl. We give you a week to make what arrangements you think proper with Mr. and Mrs. Bennett, and then we come to claim you.
"Your affectionate,
"and obliged
"Charles Elphinstone.
