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(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)







DELAWARE;


OR


THE RUINED FAMILY.







EDINBURGH

PRINTED BY M. AITKEN, 1, ST JAMES's SQUARE.







DELAWARE;


OR


THE RUINED FAMILY.


A TALE.



IN THREE VOLUMES.


VOL. II.



EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR ROBERT CADELL, EDINBURGH;
AND WHITTAKER & CO., LONDON.
MDCCCXXXIII.







DELAWARE;

OR,

THE RUINED FAMILY.





>CHAPTER I.


The sand in the hour-glass of happiness is surely of a finerqualitythan that which rolls so slowly through the glass of this world'sordinary cares and fears. Oh! how rosy-footed trip the minutes thatlead along the dance of joy! How sweetly they come, how swiftly theyfly, how bright their presence, and how speedy their departure! Everyone who has ever had a pen in his hand, has said exactly the samewords before me; and therefore, though a little stale, they must betrue.

The hours flew as lightly at Emberton Park as if they had plucked allthe down from the wings of their good father Time, in order to furnishtheir own soft pinions; and many of the days which intervened betweenthe signature of the bill for twenty-five thousand pounds, given bySir Sidney Delaware to Lord Ashborough, and the time when it was tobecome due, slipped away unnoticed. The worthy baronet suffered themto pass with very great tranquillity, relying perfectly upon the wordof Mr. Tims, that the money would be ready at the appointed period. Ascomfort, and happiness, too, are far less loquacious qualities thangrief and anxiety. Sir Sidney thought it unnecessary to enter into anyfarther particulars with Burrel, than by merely thanking him, ingeneral terms, for the advice he had given; and by informing him that,in consequence of his son's second journey to London, his affairs werelikely to be finally arranged in the course of a month or two. Themiser also suffering himself, for a certain time, to be governed byhis nephew--who well knew the only two strings which moved him like apuppet, to be avarice and fear--did not attempt to give the youngstranger at Emberton any information of the events which had takenplace, till long after Captain Delaware's return; and, within fivedays of the time when the bill became due, Burrel, who had delayed hispromised visit to Dr. Wilton till he was almost ashamed to go at all,rode over to his rectory to pass a couple of days with the worthyclergyman, whom he found deep in all the unpleasant duties of hismagisterial capacity. William Delaware, also, more active though lessclear-sighted than his father, allowed himself likewise to be deceivedby the assurance of Mr. Tims, that the money would be punctuallyready; and thus the days might have passed by unheeded by any one,till the very moment that the money was required, had there not beenanother person concerned, whose views demanded that Burrel'stwenty-five thousand pounds should not only be drawn for, but paidinto the hands of the miser at Ryebury.

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