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"Yes, mightily, I believe; though I am not quite sure, for she desired you might not be pressed, nor hurried; for 'if,' says she, in a letter to Lady Barbara, 'it is not her own desire, don't let any body be so cruel as to urge her. We know not her history, and cannot judge her objections, but she is so gently mannered, so sweetly well bred, so inexpressibly amiable, that it is impossible she should not do every thing that is right."
"Sweet-trusting-generous Lady Aurora!" cried Ellis, while tears gushed fast into her eyes, with strong, but delighted emotion: "Mr. Giles, I see, now, what path I may pursue; and you, who are so benevolent, will aid me on my way."
She then entreated him, through the medium of Lady Barbara, to supplicate that the beneficence of Lady Aurora might be exerted in the payment of the debts already contracted; not in obviating new ones, which she felt no disposition to incur.
