'Oh far, far too acurately! And even now, at a moment so blest! I must tear myself away,--by my own will, with whatever horrour!--from the sweetest of sisters,--from you, my kindest brother!--and from the most benevolent of uncles, by a separation a thousand times more dreadful than any death!' 'Take comfort, sweet sister! take comfort, loveliest Miss Ellis!--for I can't help calling you Miss Ellis, now and then, a little while longer:--I have a plan to make you free! to set you completely at liberty, and yet save that excellent Bishop!--' 'Oh my lord! how heavenly an idea!--but how impossible!' 'Not at all! 'tis the easiest thing in the world! only hear me. That wretch who claims you, shall have the portion he demands; the six thousand pounds; immediately upon signing your release, sending over the promissory-note of Lord Denmeath, and delivering your noble Bishop into the hands of the person who shall carry over the money; which, however, shall only be paid at some frontier town, whence the Bishop may come instantly hither.' Struck with rapturous surprize, Juliet scarcely restrained herself form falling at his feet. She pressed his arm, she kissed the edge of his coat, and, while striving, inarticulately, to call for blessings upon his head, burst into a passion of tears,--though tears of ecstatic joy,--that nearly deprived her of respiration. 'My sister! my dear sister!' tenderly cried Lord Melbury, 'how ashamed you make me! Could you, then, expect less? What a poor opinion you have entertained of your poor brother! I give you nothing! I merely agree that you shall possess what is your due. Know you not that you are entitled to thirty thousand pounds from our estate? To the same fortune that has been settled upon Aurora? 'Tis from your own portion, only, my poor sister, that this six thousand will be sunk.' 'Can you, then, generous, generous Lord Melbury!--can you see thus, without regret, without murmur, so capital a sum suddenly and unexpectedly torn from you?' 'I have not yet enjoyed it, my dear sister; I shall not, therefore, miss it. But if I had possessed it always, should I not be paid, ten million of times paid, by finding such a new sister? I shall be proud to shew the whole world I know how to prize such a relation. And I will not have them think me such a mere boy, because I am still rather young, as to be at a loss how to act by myself. I shall not, therefore, consult my uncle, for I am determined not to be ruled by him. I will solemnly bind myself to pay your whole fortune the moment I am of age. It is my duty, and my pride, and, at the same time, my delight, to spare your delicacy, as well as my own character, and our dear father's memory, any process, or any dispute.'