The Fortunate Foundlings - Being the Genuine History of Colonel M——Rs, and His Sister, - Madam Du P——Y, the Issue of the Hon. Ch——Es M——Rs, - Son of the Late Duke of R—— L——D. Containing Many Wonderful - Accidents That Befel Them in Their Travels, and Int by Eliza Fowler Haywood
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so long ignorant of what I was!--And how is the joyful secret at
last revealed! All these things you shall be fully informed of, answered he; in the mean time be satisfied I do not deceive you, and am indeed your father: transported to find my long lost child, whom I myself knew not was so till I believed her gone for ever;--a thousand times I have wished both you and Horatio were my children, but little suspected you were so, till after his too eager ambition deprived me of him, and my mistaken love drove you to seek a refuge among strangers. Tears of joy and tenderness now bedewed the faces of both father and daughter:--silence for some moments succeeded the late acclamations; but Dorilaus at length finding her fully convinced she was as happy as he said she was, and entirely freed from all those apprehensions which had occasioned her flying from him, told her he was settled in Paris; that he lived just opposite to the house where she had stood up on account of the shower, and happening to be at one of his windows immediately knew her; that he sent a servant after her, who had enquired how long she had been arrived, and in what manner she came; that he had sent for her with no other intent then to make trial how she would resent it, and was transported to find her answer such as he hoped and had expected from her:--he added, that he had all the anxiety of a father to hear by what means she had been supported, and the motive which induced her to travel in the habit of a pilgrim, as the matter of the hotel had informed his servant; but that he would defer his satisfaction till she should be in a place more becoming his daughter. On concluding these words he called for the master of the hotel, and having defrayed what little expences she had been at since her coming |
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