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Excerpt from The Widow, and the Marquess, Vol. 1: Or, Love and Pride
The intercourse, however, between the young people, constant as it had been, gave rise to no suspicions in the mind of Harriet's mother, that any thing of a tenderer nature than friendship would be its result; and it is extremely probable that she would have gone on in this blissful state of security for months and years, had not her suspicions been awakened by her elderly and worldly friend Mr. John Smith, who, on his first visit in Harley Street, after his return to London, saw at a glance the real state of the case, and established in his own mind the extent to which the attachment between the lovers, as he decided them to be, had already gone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
