A Simple Story

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ison-men can hardly bear it, but to women the punishment is intolerable; and Miss Mil

ently, held up by him as a pattern for her to follow-for when he did not say this in direct terms, it was insinuated by the warmth of his panegyric on those virtues in which Miss Fenton excelled,

one fault with her person or sentiments was equ

rior soul appeared above those emotions, and there was more inducement to worship her as a saint than to love her as a woman. Yet Dorriforth, whose heart was not formed (at least not educated) for love, regarding her in the light of friendship only, beheld her as the most perfect model for her sex. Lo

er own frank and ingenuous disposition, so as to engage her esteem, certain it is that she took infinite satisfaction in hearing her beauty and virtues depreciated or turned into ridicule, particularly if Mr. Dorriforth was present. This was painful to him upon many accounts; perhaps an anxiety for his ward's condu

ut see. The charms of her mind and of her fortune had been pointed out by his tutor; and the utili

pupil's passions; nay, governed them so entirely, that no one cou

Lord Elmwood, and by this double tie seemed now entailed upon the family. As a Jesuit, he was consequently a man of learning; possessed of steadiness to accomplish the end of any design once meditated, and of sagacity to direct the conduct of men more powerful, b

ll hearts towards him." There were some whose hatred he thought not unworthy of his pious labours; and in that pursuit he was more rapid in

e of characters in a foreign seminary-besides, as a woman, she was privileged to say any thing she please

e hope he could also make her abominate herself. In the mortifications of slight he was expert; and being a man of talents, whom all companies, especially her friends, respected, he did not begin by wasting that reverence so highly valued upon ineffectual remonstrances, of which he could foresee the reception, but wakened her attention by his ne

Sometimes she tried to consider this disregard of her as merely the effect of ill-breeding; but he was not an ill-bred man: he was a gentleman by birth, and one who had kept the best company-a man of s

of these qualities that she never knew before, and would have been cured of all her pride, had she not possessed a degree of spirit beyond the generality of her sex-such a degree as even Mr. Sandford, with all his penetrat

his order could have substituted in penance. Many things he bore like a martyr-at others, his fortitude would forsake him, and he would call on her guardian, his former pupil, to interpose with his authority: she would then declare that she only had acted thus

lacing her as an example to Miss Milner, he spoke of her as of one endowed beyond Miss

n: I only desire you to love Miss Fenton; to r

tressed her friend. Yet as she suffered too for Mr. Sandford, the joy of her friend's reply was abated by the uneasiness it gave to him. But Mrs. Horton felt for none but the right reverend priest