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. 1792 edition. Excerpt: ... think, therefore .1 am-**" k if very likely that there was no exiftenc whatever. I, for my part, continued Mils . Carlill, do no DEGREES underftand a word of all this] but ray friend, who fees Catherine Haubert often, tells me fhe ft ill travels in air, and flies from cloud to CHAP. XV. SIR George, after thanking Mifo Carlill for the pains {he had taken for his information, obferved, . that .from the pride of birth and fortune, joined to much ignorance of the world, he could eafily conceive Mifs Haubcrt's behaviour might incline too much much to arrogance; but for the marked rudcnefs fhewn to fo amiable a lady as Mifs Coleraine, there muft be fome additional caufe. There are many, Mifs Carlill replied; the firft was, that when neighbour Haubert vifited any where, the company were fo full of Cornelia Colerain's praife, there was none left for herfelf. This was a general caufe. It happened alfo that a fmall farmer, tenant of friend Haubert died, leaving a wife and four fmall children. The two fucceeding half years, the poor woman was deficient in rent, fo the bailiff took away one of her two milking cows; the other indeed, gave her children milk, but could not furnifh the butter and fmall cheefes, of which {he muft make the principal part of her rent. It was needful for poor neighbour Haubert to have the other cow; the orders were actually given. When it came to the ears of CorneHa Colerain* Colerain, who was almoft as much celebrated for benevolence as beauty, fhe paid the rent, and replaced the loft cow with a better. Neighbour Haubert thought it was terribly infolent that a ftranger fhould prefumeto be kind to her tenants -, fhe ordered her to quit, and Cornelia Colerain was obliged to provide the woman with another farm, on which fhe...