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Notes to France without seeing Leonora, and sent from Paris a note explaining to her why they could
not marry after all. After receiving the bad news, Leonora returned to the house that occasioned
the telling of her story, where she has “led a disconsolate Life.” Horatio, meanwhile, has
worked hard and acquired “a very considerable Fortune,” and he has never spoken an ill
word of Leonora.

Task Why Bellarmine set out to seek the approval of Leonora’s father?

Chapter VII

Mr. Abraham Adams has forgotten all about his horse and has been walking ahead of the
coach all this time. When the passengers notice him and try to overtake him, he treats it as
a game and outruns the coach. Once he has gotten three miles ahead, he sits down with his
Aeschylus to wait for the coach to catch up. A Sportsman hunting partridge soon comes upon
him, and they start a conversation about the scarcity of game in the area, which the Sportsman
blames on the soldiers who are quartered in the neighborhood. When Adams remarks that
shooting is a soldier’s line of work, the Sportsman wishes that the soldiers were “so forward
to shoot our Enemies.”

Notes Mr. Abraham Adams his admiration for men who are willing to die for their
country, which sentiment favorably impresses Mr. Adams, who is eager to continue
the discussion in this vein.

Chapter VIII

Mr. Adams says that though he has never made “so noble a Sacrifice” as soldiers make,
nevertheless he too has suffered, in his own small way, “for the sake of [his] Conscience.” He
once had a nephew who kept a shop and was an Alderman of a Corporation, and he more
than once missed out on opportunities of employment within the church when he refused to
sell his influence over his nephew’s vote. Eventually he encouraged the nephew to vote for Sir
Thomas Booby, having been impressed with Sir Thomas’s command of “Affairs.” Sir Thomas
won the election and became a classically verbose Member of Parliament, but Adams never
received the living Sir Thomas had promised him, as Lady Booby preferred to bestow it
elsewhere. Nor has Mr. Adams ever had much access to the Booby family, presumably because
Lady Booby “did not think [his] Dress good enough for the Gentry at her Table.” Adams
remembers Sir Thomas fondly, however, as Sir Thomas always allowed him to take a glass of
ale from his cellar on Sundays. Mr. Adams no longer has much political clout since the death
of his Alderman nephew, though he does take advantage of his pulpit to advocate certain
causes during election season, hoping thereby to gain the support of the local gentry in getting
an ordination for his son, who is at a disadvantage because he has not been to university. Like
his father before him, the Mr. Adams the Younger strives to serve God and country.

Chapter IX
The Sportsman expresses his opinion that any man not willing to die for his country is not
willing to live in it, and he says that he disinherited a nephew who joined the army but
refused to be stationed in the West Indies. Mr. Adams counsels greater patience, arguing that

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