The Fortunate Foundlings, By Eliza Fowler Haywood



















































































































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The education he allowed them indeed gave very good grounds for the
above-mentioned conjecture. - Louisa being taught all the - Page 11
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The Education He Allowed Them Indeed Gave Very Good Grounds For The Above-Mentioned Conjecture.

- Louisa being taught all the accomplishments that became a maid of quality to be mistress of; and Horatio having

Gone thro' all the learning of the school, was taken home to his own house, from whence he was to go to Oxford, in order to finish his studies in the character of a gentleman-commoner.

But when every thing was preparing for this purpose, he came one morning into the chamber of his patron, and throwing himself on his knees - Think me not, sir, said he, too presuming in the request I am about to make you. - I know all that I am is yours. - That I am the creature of your bounty, and that, without being a father, you have done more for me than many of those, who are so, do for their most favourite sons. - I know also that you are the best judge of what is fit for me, and have not the least apprehensions that you will not always continue the same goodness to me, provided I continue, as I have hitherto done, the ambition of meriting it. - Yet, sir, pardon me if I now discover a desire with which I long have laboured, of doing something of myself which may repair the obscurity of my birth, and prove to the world that heaven has endued this foundling with a courage and resolution capable of undertaking the greatest actions.

In speaking these last words a fire seemed to sparkle from his eyes, which sufficiently denoted the vehemence of his inward agitations. Dorilaus was extremely surprized, but after a little pause, what is it you request of me?

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