Lennox, née Ramsay, (Barbara) Charlotte (1730/1?-1804)

The Life of Harriot Stuart. Written by Herself.

London

Printed for J. Payne, and J. Bouquet

1751

"Conquer your passion, if you are able"

Dumont, who, all the time I had been speaking, had sat leaning his head upon one of his hands, looked up when I had finished, and shewed me his face all bathed in tears. "Oh heavens! cried he, you have indeed raised an unsurmountable bar to my happiness. Am I then doomed to lose you, because my principles in religion differ from your's? Alas, my lovely Harriot! said he, it is decreed that I must be miserable for ever. Tho' I look upon the possession of you to be the sublimest happiness that any man can arrive at in this world, yet I cannot consent to purchase it by changing my religion. The man who could basely forsake the principles he was bred in, from any other motive than a conviction that they are false, must render himself unworthy the blessing of being yours." "Do not imagine, interrupted I, that I could be capable of approving your change, if you only made a sacrifice of your religion to love. No, whenever that happens, may it be the effect of reason and conviction. But, believe me, dear Dumont, tho' you really profest the same principles with myself, I would never consent to your breaking thro' your engagement with your cousin, and sacrificing your fortune for me. Submit then patiently, I conjure you, to that cruel destiny which divides us. Conquer your passion, if you are able: but be assured, neither time or absence shall ever force me to forget you."
(pp. 159-60)

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The Life of Harriot Stuart. Written by Herself., 2 vols. (London: Printed for J. Payne, and J. Bouquet, 1751).

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