"Then let us be joined," cried he, falling at her feet, "till death
alone can part us."

All the sensibility--the reserve--the pride, with which she was so amply
possessed, returned to her that moment. She started and cried, "Could
Lord Elmwood know for what he sent me?"

"He did," replied Rushbrook--"I boldly told him of my presumptuous love,
and he has given to you alone, the power over my happiness or misery.
Oh! do not doom me to the latter."

Whether the heart of Matilda, such as it has been described, _could_
sentence him to misery, the reader is left to surmise--and if he supposes
that it could _not_, he has every reason to suppose that their wedded
life, was--a life of happiness.

He has beheld the pernicious effects of an _improper education_ in the
destiny which attended the unthinking Miss Milner.--On the opposite side,
what may not be hoped from that school of prudence--though of
adversity--in which Matilda was bred?

And Mr. Milner, Matilda's grandfather, had better have given his
_fortune_ to a distant branch of his family--as Matilda's father once
meant to do--so that he had given to his daughter

A PROPER EDUCATION.

PLAYS written by MRS. INCHBALD, and published by G. G. and J. ROBINSON,
Paternoster Row.

LOVER'S VOWS;

A Play in five Acts, from the German of
KOTZEBUE.

WIVES AS THEY WERE, AND MAIDS
AS THEY ARE.

EVERY ONE HAS HIS FAULT.

I'LL TELL YOU WHAT,
Comedies in five Acts.

SUCH THINGS ARE,
A Play in five Acts.

THE MARRIED MAN,
A Comedy, Price 1s. 6d. each.

THE CHILD OF NATURE.

APPEARANCE IS AGAINST THEM.

THE WIDOW'S VOW.

THE MIDNIGHT HOUR,
A Comedy.

THE WEDDING DAY,
Price One Shilling each.

NATURE AND ART,
The Second Edition, in Two Volumes, Price
7s. sewed.

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