Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Instructive Tales, for Young Persons, Intended to Amuse and Inform the Youthful Mind, Comprising Lascelles, or the Young Soldier: Leland, or the Wanderings of Youthful Romance
In a small but neat cottage border ing upon this wood, lived a young widow, of interesting and prepossess ing appearance; and whose manners indicated her previous acquaintance with a higher sphere, than that she at present, with resignation indeed, but not with entire self-satisfaction, was seen to occupy. She had an only son, a boy entering upon his fifteenth year, but of a size and stature that to a stranger would have indicated him to be several years older; and with personal recommendations be sides, which he appeared to have inherited from his mother, superior.
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