Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1821 edition. Excerpt: ...how to look; but no instruction for the mind. And then, says he, that terrible love of gaming!--Mil. Gaming!.Mal. Don't you know it? I can't say I ever saw it myself. Time will determine her character. Mil. If she loves gaming, it is pretty well determined already. But my Lady Jane, there's a model for her sex to imitate. Mal. Have you watched her well? People should appear what they really are. Mrs. Bromley has been very communicative about Lady Jane. Mil. You alarm me. My dear friend, explain. Mal. To do Lady Bell justice, she is above disguise. And though she has her faults, I have seen her please by those very faults. Mil. (Smiling.) And so have I, Her very blemishes are beauty spots. Mal. No frankness about the youngest girl. It is friendship for you that makes me speak. Her character is all forced, studied, put on with her rouge. Mil. Does she paint? Mal. A little; the prudent touch. I am sorry for her. When she is settled in the world, many qualities, which now lie concealed, will break out into open daylight. Mil. What a masked battery there will be to play off upon her husband! Mal. Their aunt told me all in confidence. You may judge how painful it is to her. I have known the family for some time. I can't but be sorry for the young ladies. Mil. And since this is the case, I don't care how little I know of them, or their family. Mal. No occasion to quarrel with the family. Great merit about Mrs. Bromley. She made an admirable wife, and at an early period. She was but seventeen when she was married. Mil. No more? Mal. Not an hour: she is not thirty: an estate in her own right, and the command of half a borough. No opposition there; the old houses have the votes. A man may get a seat without trouble. Does not Sir John want to see...