Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire

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Philip Wharton. Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire

Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION

EDITOR'S PREFACE

MRS. MARY ROBINSON

CONTINUATION

JANE, DUCHESS OF GORDON

JANE, DUTCHESS OF GORDON

GEORGIANA, DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE

GEORGIANA, DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE

ENDNOTES

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Mary Robinson, Philip Wharton, Mrs. A. T. Thomson

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Many months elapsed, and my mother continued to receive the kindest letters from that husband whose rash scheme filled her bosom with regret and apprehension. At length the intervals became more frequent and protracted. The professions of regard, no longer flowing from the heart, assumed a laboured style, and seemed rather the efforts of honourable feeling than the involuntary language of confidential affection. My mother felt the change, and her affliction was infinite.

At length a total silence of several months awoke her mind to the sorrows of neglect, the torture of compunction; she now lamented the timidity which had divided her from a husband's bosom, the natural fondness which had bound her to her children; for while her heart bled with sorrow and palpitated with apprehension, the dreadful secret was unfolded, and the cause of my father's silence was discovered to be a new attachment—a mistress, whose resisting nerves could brave the stormy ocean, and who had consented to remain two years with him in the frozen wilds of America.

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