station only; because he is rich, he is called generous; because he is

powerful, brave; because he is well served, he is affable. Let them call

him so, let all England believe him to be thus--we know him--he is our

enemy--our penurious, dastardly, arrogant enemy; if he were gifted with

one particle of the virtues you call his, he would do justly by us, if it

were only to shew, that if he must strike, it should not be a fallen foe.

His father injured my father--his father, unassailable on his throne,

dared despise him who only stooped beneath himself, when he deigned to

associate with the royal ingrate. We, descendants from the one and the

other, must be enemies also. He shall find that I can feel my injuries; he

shall learn to dread my revenge!"

A few days after he arrived. Every inhabitant of the most miserable

cottage, went to swell the stream of population that poured forth to meet

him: even Perdita, in spite of my late philippic, crept near the highway,

to behold this idol of all hearts. I, driven half mad, as I met party after

party of the country people, in their holiday best, descending the hills,

escaped to their cloud-veiled summits, and looking on the sterile rocks

about me, exclaimed--"They do not cry, long live the Earl!" Nor, when

night came, accompanied by drizzling rain and cold, would I return home;

for I knew that each cottage rang with the praises of Adrian; as I felt my

limbs grow numb and chill, my pain served as food for my insane aversion;

nay, I almost triumphed in it, since it seemed to afford me reason and

excuse for my hatred of my unheeding adversary. All was attributed to him,

for I confounded so entirely the idea of father and son, that I forgot that

the latter might be wholly unconscious of his parent's neglect of us; and

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