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THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR.
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CHAPTER IV.
Is she a Capulet?
O dear account! my life is my foe's debt.
Shakespeare.
The Lord Keeper walked for nearly a quarter of a mile in profound silence. His daughter, naturally timid and bred up in those ideas of filial awe and implicit obedience which were inculcated upon the youth of that period, did not venture to interrupt his meditations.
"Why do you look so pale, Lucy?" said her father, turning suddenly round and breaking silence.
According to the ideas of the time, which did not permit a young woman to offer her sentiments on any subject of importance unless especially required to do so, Lucy
