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The Vicar of Wakefield.

a more serious meaning. For when we reflect on the various schemes this gen­tleman laid to seduce innocence, perhaps some one more artful than the rest has been found able to deceive him. When we consider what numbers he has ru­ined, how many parents now feel with anguish the infamy and the contamination which he has brought into their families, it would not surprise me if some one of them—Amazement! Do I see my lost daugh­ter! Do I hold her! It is, it is my life, my happiness. I thought thee lost, my Olivia, yet still I hold thee—and still shalt thou live to bless me."—The warmest trans­ports of the fondest lover were not great­er than mine when I saw him introduce my child, and held my daughter in my arms, whose silence only spoke her raptures. "And art thou returned to me, my dar­ling," cried I, "to be my comfort in age!"—"That she is," cried Jenkinson, "and make much of her, for she is your"own