Surprize And Joy Rendered Him Incapable Either Of Speaking To
Him, Or Hearing The Apologies He Was Beginning To Make For Having
Disobeyed His Commands:
- But he fell upon his neck and gave him an
embrace, which dissipated all Horatio's fears, and left him no room to
doubt if his peace was made.
No words were exchanged between them for a considerable time, but - oh my
dear son, my ever loved Horatio, on the one side, my more than father,
patron, on the other: - at length the tumultuous rapture of so unexpected
a meeting and reception, giving way to a more peaceful calm, - Dorilaus
made Horatio relate all the particulars had happened to him; and when he
had ended, now, said he, I will reward the sincerity I easily perceive
you have made use of in this narrative, by acquainting you, in my turn,
with secrets you are far from having any notion of, and which, I
believe, will compensate for all your sufferings, and make you own,
that while you seemed to groan under the utmost severities of fortune,
she was preparing for you all the blessings in her power to give, and
even more than your ambition aimed at. But I have first a message to
dispatch, continued he; at my return you shall know all.
With these words he went out of the room, but came back in a moment,
and, after renewing his embraces to Horatio, revealed to him the whole
secret of his birth, with all had happened to Louisa till the time of
their happy meeting in Paris.
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