Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Maiden's Talisman, Vol. 2 of 3: And Other Strange Tales
Routs, balls, the being' at home to five hun dred friends, and all that the world calls plea sure, were to her severe in?ictions, which she endured for awhile with patient uneasiness, and at length entirely withdrew from. Her lord was far from displeased at'this seclusion, as it left the funds more completely at his disposal, and, moreov'er, he had discovered, since his marriage, that her ladyship's demeanour and manner in society, which he, as a professed' lover, used to term interestingly retiring and delicately sensitive, might be more correctly described by the, epithets mauvaise honte.
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