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Certain of your benevolence , my dear brother , '' continued Miss Dorothy , `` I stopped this sweet girl 's petition with my caresses , and promised her a gentler father in Sir Robert Somerset . '' `` You did right , Dorothy , '' returned the baronet ; `` though the earl and I must ever be strangers , I have no enmity to his children . Where is this just-principled young lady ? '' Miss Dorothy informed him that , in consequence of her recent grief and ill treatment , she had found herself too unwell to rise with the family ; but she hoped to join them at noon . Pembroke was indeed deeply interested in this intelligence . The simple graces of the lovely Albina had on the first interview touched his heart . Her sufferings at Harrowby , and the sensibility which her ingenuous nature exhibited without affectation or disguise , had left her image on his mind long after they parted .