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The Vicar of Wakefield.
ment, I even here retract my former concessions in the old gentleman's favour, nor will I allow him now to be an husband either dejure, de facto, or in any sense of the expression."
It would be endless to describe the different sensations of both families when I divulged the news of my misfortunes; but what others felt was slight to what the young lovers appeared to endure. Mr. Wilmot, who seemed before sufficiently inclined to break off the match, was by this blow soon determined: one virtue he had in perfection, which was prudence, too often the only virtue that is left us unimpaired at seventy-two.CHAP.
