Arundel Author:Richard Cumberland Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: nobled by the blood of Scottifh kings ; I'll marry honor in fags, but I'll have no commerce with a mifcreant, though in a robe of ftate. I much doubt, my dear... more » Louifa, if at this moment I have a fair Scottifh pound, which I can truly call my own, and independantly command to beftow where I will ; the clothes that cover and the meal that feeds me, are my brother's; but as I fhare his purfe, I fhare his blood ; I will do no wrong to either, nor fhall any one do wrong to me. I can defend my own honor, I am competent alfo to make my own choice : my hero will fupport me with his life, but he will never think of overruling me by his will. Arundel is a noble fellow ; the man, who feared not to provoke the father whilft he admired the daughter, is a man to my heart's content, and I know no authority, which nature has given to a parent, that can oblige me to adopt his refentments, when they fpring from meannefs, or prevent me from admiring that principle, which is founded in honor. Your Arundel is the nephew of my Arundel, of that glorious creature, who perhaps at chapter{Section 4this moment is bleeding in his country's fer- vice, and, with my gallant hero by his fide, vollying the Britifh thunder on our enemies, and has he not an hereditary claim upon my heart ? Ah ! my dear Louifa, had you my fpirit of rebellion added to your propenfity to the tender paffion, all this combuftion would have been avoided, and one reiblute ftep ftrait forwards would have faved thoufands, which you have now to take through crooked paths and round-about roads before you fhall arrive weary and jaded at the end of your journey. If Love afiails me, which he has not yet thought fit to do to any ferious porpofe, I will make a fhort battle of it; he fhall not wafte my ftrength with manoeuvres, for I ...« less