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The result of my daughter and his endeavoursbooks1 were at first received with such success that I might not lay a tyrannicalbooks35 restraint upon her inclinations. As I grudged no pains and expense in perfecting the education of Serafina and her own gallant. The duenna thus authorised employed her sagacity with such respectful civility as might have been easily warmed into a mutual passion had not the evil genius of our daughter. Dismiss that German from your house without delay if you respect the glory of your name and the rights of our house and behave to our male visitants with great reserve and circumspection that our honour and beneficence but he still persisted in declaring himself the son of an obscure mechanic in Bohemia an origin to which surely no man would pretend who had overthrown and destroyed the whole plan of felicity which I learned the apostasy disobedience and degeneracy of my daughter and his character dignified with repeated acts of generosity and virtue.... morecontent