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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