The novels of Charles Brockden Brown, consisting of Wieland;or, The transformation. Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the year 1793. Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a sleep-walker. Jane Talbot. Ormond; or, The secret witness. Clara Howard; or, The enthusiasm of love. With a memoir of the author.

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ORMOND; OR,

Not a single hope, relative to her own condition, had
been frustrated. She had only been mistaken in her
favourable conceptions of another. He had exhibited
less constancy and virtue than her heart had taught her
to expect.
With those opinions, she could devote herself, with a
single heart, to the alleviation of her parents' sorrows.
This change in her condition she treated lightly, and retained her cheerfulness unimpaired. This happened because, in a rational estimate, and so far as it affected
herself, the misfortune was slight, and because her dejection would only tend to augment the disconsolateness of
her parents, while, on the other hand, her serenity was
calculated to infuse the same confidence into them. She
indulged herself in no fits of exclamation or moodiness.
She listened in silence to their invectives and -laments,
and seized every opportunity that offered to inspire them
with courage, to set before them the gpod, as well as ill,
to which they were reserved, to suggest expedients for
improving their condition, and to soften the asperities of
his new mode of life, to her father, by every species of
blandishment and tenderness.
She refused no personal exertion to the common benefit..She incited her father to diligence, as well by her
example as by her exhortations; suggested plans, and
superintended or assisted in the execution of them. The
infirmities of sex and age vanished before the motives
to courage and activity flowing from her new situation.
When settled in his new abode and profession, she began
to deliberate what conduct was incumbent on herself,
how she might participate with her father the burden
of the common maintenance, and blunt the edge of this
calamity by the resources of a powerful and cultivated
mind:
In the first place, she disposed of every superfluous garb
and trinket. She reduced her wardrobe to the plainest
and cheapest establishment. By this means alone, she
supplied her father's necessities with a considerable sum.
Her music and even her books were not spared,-not
from the slight esteem in which these were held by her,
but because she was thenceforth to become an economist