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Harleigh was instantly at her feet; grieved at her distress, yet charmed with a thousand nameless, but potent sensations, that whispered to every pulse of his frame, that a sensibility so powerful could spring only from too sudden a concussion of pleasure with surprise.

He had hardly time to breathe forth a protestation, when the sight of his posture brought back the blood to her cheeks, and force to her limbs; hastily rising, and, with looks of blushing confusion, yet with a sigh that spoke internal anguish, "I cannot attempt," she cried, "Mr. Harleigh, I could not, indeed, attempt to express my sense of your generous good opinion! yet if you would not destine me to till eternal misery, you must fly me till you can forget this scene as you would me to fly perdition!"

She rose to be gone but Harleigh stopt her, crying, in a tone of amazement, "Is it possible, can it be possible, that with intellects such as

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