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| | Sydney Clifton; or, Vicissitudes in Both Hemispheres. A Tale of the Nineteenth Century |
 | | Borrowdale was but past, when the sleigh and horses, that had rushed by with such speed, and their fair burden, were driven up to the door by a young gentleman, a stranger to the parties, who had caught the terrified animals at the risk of his life; and, just as Mrs. |
| | Borrowdale desired to be excused while she gave attention to her household duties, and the enraptured Clifton was thus afforded an opportunity to breathe into the ear of his mistress the love that burned in his bosom. |
| | Borrowdale's altered demeanour; and, as his natural temperament led him to adopt hasty conclusions, he at once decided that his passion for Julia was discovered, and that her parents' uneasiness was caused by their opposition to so unequal an alliance as would result from her attachment to so humble a suiter. |
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