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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: be ever so short a one. Don't be proud and saucy: you imagine, I suppose, that you can't write as well as Harriet and I. Granted. Attempt it not, therefore. But write as well as you can; and that, till Harriet can find herself at leisure to resume her pen shall content Your true friend, and humble servant, Ch. G No end of your compliments to us in town, you say. ?No end of ours to you in the country, were I to begin them: therefore will not say a word about them. You know my meaning by my gaping. LETTER IV MISS SELBY, TO LADY G- Thursday night, Nov. 30. And must I write your ladyship one more letter ? And will a short one content you ? Well then, I'll try for it. On Sunday last, we hoped to be quiet and good: but the church was as much crowded as it was the Sunday before. Monday and Tuesday the bride and bridegroom returned the visits made them. At one, they met Miss Orme, and accompanied her to her brother's seat at her request. You did not seem to like my account of Sir Charles's interview with Mr. Orme in my last: So I will not tell you what passed on occasion of this visit to that worthy man. I will be as perverse as youare difficult. I don't care. Yet, as your new sister described the meeting and parting to me, you would have been pleased with what I could have told you. Yesterday we had a ball given by Mrs. Shirley. Were I able to write to please you, how I could expatiate on this occasion How did the bridegroom shine Every body was in raptures with him, on his charming behaviour to his bride. The notice he took of her was neither too little, nor too much, for the most delicate observers. Every young lady envied her; and how coldly did some of them look on their own humble servants They indeed were as regardful of him as their mistr...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217096355 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217096352 |
| Weight | 0.76 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 230 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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