- If Therefore The King Of
Sweden Is Resolute To Extend His Conquests, Entreat
His Permission To Resign:
I know the obligations
you have to that excellent prince; but I
know also you have others to me which cannot
be dispensed with:
- Besides, his majesty's affairs
cannot suffer by the loss of one man: yours
will be in danger, if not totally ruined, by your
continuance with him, and myself deprived at
the same time of the only remaining comfort of
my days. - Your sister left me soon after you
did: - she went to Aix la Chapelle, since
which I have never been able to hear any thing
of her. - Let me not lose you both; if you
have any regard for your own interest, or the
peace of him whom you have ever found a father
in his care and affection, and whom you will
now find so more than you can possibly expect.
DORILAUS."
Impossible is it to conceive, without being in the very circumstances
Horatio was, what a strange variety of mingled passions agitated his
breast on having to read, and considered these letters: - to find such
unhoped condescension from the baron de Palfoy and that Dorilaus was
still living, and had the same, if not more tender inclinations for him
than ever, the latter of which he had long since ceased to hope, was
sufficient to have overwhelmed even the most phlegmatic person with an
excess of joy: - but then the dark expressions in both these letters put
his brain on the rack.
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