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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

CHAPTER I
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He had bid them be brother and sister whom he loved, and live a Golden Age with him at Raynham.

In fact, he had been prodigal of the excellences of his nature, which it is not good to be, and, like Timon, he became bankrupt, and fell upon bitterness.
The faithless lady was of no particular family; an orphan daughter of an admiral who educated her on his half-pay, and her conduct struck but at the man whose name she bore.
After five years of marriage, and twelve of friendship, Sir Austin was left to his loneliness with nothing to ease his heart of love upon save a little baby boy in a cradle.

He forgave the man: he put him aside as poor for his wrath.

The woman he could not forgive; she had sinned every way.

Simple ingratitude to a benefactor was a pardonable transgression, for he was not one to recount and crush the culprit under the heap of his good deeds.


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