In the midst of these amusements, our hero received an intimation
from his sister, that she should be overjoyed to meet him next
day, at five o'clock in the afternoon, at the house of her nurse,
who lived in a cottage hard by her father's habitation, she being
debarred from all opportunity of seeing him in any other place
by the severity of her mother, who suspected her inclination.
He accordingly obeyed the summons, and went at the time appointed
to the place of rendezvous, where be met this affectionate young
lady, who when he entered the room, ran towards him with all the
eagerness of transport, flung her arms about his neck, and shed a
flood of tears in his bosom before she could utter one word, except
a repetition of My dear, dear brother! He embraced her with all the
piety of fraternal tenderness, wept over her in his turn, assured
her that this was one of the happiest moments of his life, and
kindly thanked her for having resisted the example, and disobeyed.
the injunctions, of his mother's unnatural aversion.
He was ravished to find, by her conversation, that she possessed a
great share of sensibility and prudent reflection; for she lamented
the infatuation of her parents with the most filial regret, and
expressed such abhorrence and concern at the villainous disposition
of her younger brother as a humane sister may be supposed to have
entertained.
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