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the most shocking consequences. Had she deigned to make proper concessions, she might perhaps have lessened the impression; but she affects to ascribe all he says to the meanest motives, and in return for all his tender anxiety for her honour and happiness, speaks to him with the haughty air of a person who has been deeply injured. In short, though my father paid all the expenses of their living with him in Edinburgh, and all the debts my sister had contracted, he got no thanks: but, on the contrary, seemed rather to have given offence, than to have conferred obligation. I believe I have mentioned that, by the terms of my grand- father's will, the sum of fifteen hundred pounds was to be paid to her on the day of her marriage. Mr Mollins seems to despise this paltry fortune, as scarcely worth his acceptance. Yet, would you believe it, he, on my father's speaking to him on the subject, the day after we returned home, absolutely refused to permit two thirds of
