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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T Smollett - Part 2/2 · Audiobooks & Scary Stories

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  Speaker 1: These are the happy effects of temperance, exercise, and good nature.
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  Speaker 1: Notwithstanding all his innocence, however, he was the cause of
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  Speaker 1: great perturbation to my man Clinker, whose natural superstition has
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  Speaker 1: been much injured by the histories of witches, fairies, ghosts,
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  Speaker 1: and goblins which he has heard in this country. On
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  Speaker 1: the evening after our arrival, Humphrey strolled into the wood
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  Speaker 1: in the course of his meditation, and all at once
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  Speaker 1: the Admiral stood before him under the shadow of a
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  Speaker 1: spreading oak. Though the fellow is far from being timorous
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  Speaker 1: in cases that are not supposed preternatural, he could not
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  Speaker 1: stand the sight of this apparition, but ran into the
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  Speaker 1: kitchen with his hair standing on end, staring wildly and
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  Speaker 1: deprived of utterance. Missus Jenkins, seeing him in this condition,
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  Speaker 1: screamed aloud, Lord, have mercy upon us. He has seen something.
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  Speaker 1: Missus Tabitha was alarmed, and the whole house in confusion.
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  Speaker 1: When he was recruited with a dram, I desired him
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  Speaker 1: to explain the meaning of all this agitation, and with
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  Speaker 1: some reluctance, he owned he had seen a spirit in
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  Speaker 1: the shape of an old man with a white beard,
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  Speaker 1: a black cap and a plaid nightgown. He was undeceived
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  Speaker 1: by the Admiral in person, who, coming in at this juncture,
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  Speaker 1: appeared to be a creature of real flesh and blood.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know how we fare in this Scottish paradise?
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  Speaker 1: We make free with our landlord's mutton, which is excellent,
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  Speaker 1: his poultry yard, his garden, his dairy, and his cellar,
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  Speaker 1: which are all well stored. We have delicious salmon, pike, trout, perch,
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  Speaker 1: par and sea at the door for the taking. The
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  Speaker 1: Frith of Clyde on the other side of the hill
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  Speaker 1: supplies us with mullet red and gray cod, mackerel, whiting,
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  Speaker 1: and a variety of sea fish, including the finest fresh
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  Speaker 1: herrings I ever tasted. We have sweet, juicy beef and
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  Speaker 1: tolerable veal, with delicate bread from the little town of Dunbritain,
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  Speaker 1: and plenty of partridge, growse, heath cock and other game.
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  Speaker 1: In presence, we have been visited by all the gentlemen
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  Speaker 1: in the neighborhood, and they have entertained us at their houses,
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  Speaker 1: not barely with hospitality, but with such marks of cordial
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  Speaker 1: affection as one would wish to find among near relations.
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  Speaker 1: After an absence of many years. I told you in
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  Speaker 1: my last I have projected an excursion to the Highlands,
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  Speaker 1: which project I have now happily executed under the auspices
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  Speaker 1: of Sir George Calhoun, a colonel in the Dutch Service,
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  Speaker 1: who offered himself as our conductor on this occasion. Leaving
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  Speaker 1: our women at Cameron to the care and inspection of
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  Speaker 1: Lady h c we set out on horseback for Inverary,
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  Speaker 1: the county town of Argyle, and dined on the road
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  Speaker 1: with the Laird of MacFarlane, the greatest genealogist I ever
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  Speaker 1: knew in any country, and perfectly acquainted with all the
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  Speaker 1: antiquities of Scotland. The Duke of Argyle has an old
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  Speaker 1: castle in Inverary, where he resides when he is in Scotland,
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  Speaker 1: and hard By is the shell of a noble Gothic
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  Speaker 1: palace built by the last Duke, which when finished, will
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  Speaker 1: be a great ornament to this part of the Highlands.
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  Speaker 1: As for Inverary, it is a place of very little importance.
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  Speaker 1: This country is amazingly wild, especially towards the mountains, which
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  Speaker 1: are heaped upon the backs of one another, making a
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  Speaker 1: most stupendous appearance of savage nature, with hardly any signs
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  Speaker 1: of cultivation or even of population. All is sublimity, silence,
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  Speaker 1: and solitude. The people live together in glens or bottoms,
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  Speaker 1: where they are sheltered from the cold and storms of winter.
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  Speaker 1: But there is a margin of plain ground spread along
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  Speaker 1: the sea side, which is well inhabited and improved by
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  Speaker 1: the arts of husbandry. And this I take to be
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  Speaker 1: one of the most agreeable tracts of the whole island.
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  Speaker 1: The sea not only keeps it warm and supplies it
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  Speaker 1: with fish, but affords one of the most ravishing prospects
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  Speaker 1: in the whole world. I mean the appearance of the
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  Speaker 1: hebrides or western islands, to the number of three hundred
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  Speaker 1: scattered as far as the eye can reach, in the
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  Speaker 1: most agreeable confusion. As the soil and climate of the
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  Speaker 1: highlands are but ill adapt to the cultivation of corn,
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  Speaker 1: the people apply themselves chiefly to the breeding and feeding
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  Speaker 1: of black cattle, which turn to good account. Those animals
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  Speaker 1: run wild all the winter without any shelter or subsistence.
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  Speaker 1: But what they can find among the heath when the
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  Speaker 1: snow lies so deep and hard that they cannot penetrate
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  Speaker 1: to the roots of the grass. They make a diurnal progress,
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  Speaker 1: guided by a sure instinct, to the sea side of
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  Speaker 1: low Water, where they feed on the algamarina and other
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  Speaker 1: plants that grow upon the beach. Perhaps this branch of husbandry,
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  Speaker 1: which required very little attendance and labor, is one of
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  Speaker 1: the principal causes of that idleness and want of industry
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  Speaker 1: which distinguishes these mountaineers in their own country. When they
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  Speaker 1: come forth into the world, they become as diligent and
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  Speaker 1: alert as any people upon earth. They are undoubtedly a
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  Speaker 1: very distinct species from their fellow subjects of the Lowlands,
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  Speaker 1: against whom they indulge an ancient spirit of animosity, and
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  Speaker 1: this difference is very discernible even among persons of family
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  Speaker 1: and education. The Lowlanders are generally cool and circumspect, the
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  Speaker 1: Highlanders fiery and ferocious. But this violence of their passion
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  Speaker 1: serves only to inflame the zeal of their devotion to strangers,
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  Speaker 1: which is truly enthusiastic. We proceeded about twenty miles beyond
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  Speaker 1: Inverary to the house of a gentleman, a friend of
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  Speaker 1: our conductor, where we stayed a few days and were
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  Speaker 1: feasted in such a manner that I began to dread
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  Speaker 1: the consequence to my constitution. Notwithstanding the solitude that prevails
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  Speaker 1: among these mountains, there is no want of people in
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  Speaker 1: the Highlands. I am credibly informed that the Duke of
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  Speaker 1: Argyle can assemble five thousand men in arms of his
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  Speaker 1: own clan and surname, which is Campbell. And there is
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  Speaker 1: besides a tribe of the same appellation, whose chief is
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  Speaker 1: the Earl of Brettelbeine. The MacDonalds are as numerous and
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  Speaker 1: remarkably warlike the Cameronsmleids, Frasers, Grants, Kenzies, Umcise Persons, Mintashes
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  Speaker 1: are powerful clans, so that if all the Highlanders, including
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  Speaker 1: the inhabitants of the Isles, were united, they could bring
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  Speaker 1: into the field an army of forty thousand fighting men,
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  Speaker 1: capable of undertaking the most dangerous enterprise we have lived
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  Speaker 1: to see four thousand of them, without discipline, throw the
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  Speaker 1: whole Kingdom of Great Britain into confusion. They attacked and
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  Speaker 1: defeated two armies of regular troops accustomed to service. They
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  Speaker 1: penetrated into the center of England, and afterwards marched back
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  Speaker 1: with deliberation in the face of two other armies through
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  Speaker 1: an enemy's country, where every precaution was taken to cut
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  Speaker 1: off their retreat. I know not any other people in
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  Speaker 1: Europe who, without the use or knowledge of arms, will
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  Speaker 1: attack regular forces sword in hand, if their chief will
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  Speaker 1: head them in battle. When disciplined, they cannot fail of
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  Speaker 1: being excellent soldiers. They do not walk like the generality
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  Speaker 1: of mankind, but trot and bounce like deer, as if
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  Speaker 1: they moved upon springs. They greatly excel the Lowlanders in
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  Speaker 1: all the exercises that require agility. They are incredibly abstemious
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  Speaker 1: and patient of hunger and fatigue, so steeled against the
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  Speaker 1: weather that in traveling, even when the ground is covered
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  Speaker 1: with snow, they never look for a house or any
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  Speaker 1: other shelter but their plaid, in which they wrap themselves
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  Speaker 1: up and go to sleep under the cope of heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Such people in quality of soldiers must be invincible when
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  Speaker 1: the business is to perform quick marches in a difficult country,
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  Speaker 1: to strike sudden strokes, beat up the enemy's quarters, harrass
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  Speaker 1: their cavalry, and perform expeditions without the formality of magazines, baggage,
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  Speaker 1: forage and artillery. The chieftainship of the Highlanders is a
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  Speaker 1: very dangerous influence operating at the extremity of the island,
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  Speaker 1: where the eyes and hands of government cannot be supposed
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  Speaker 1: to see and act with precision and vigor. In order
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  Speaker 1: to break the force of clanship, administration has always practiced
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  Speaker 1: the political maxim divide et impera. The legislature hath not
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  Speaker 1: only disarmed these mountaineers, but also deprive them of their
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  Speaker 1: anti en which contributed in a great measure to keep
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  Speaker 1: up their military spirit. And their slavish tenures. Are all
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  Speaker 1: dissolved by act of Parliament, so that they are at
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  Speaker 1: present as free and independent of their chiefs as the
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  Speaker 1: law can make them. But the original attachment still remains
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  Speaker 1: and is founded on something prior to the feudal system,
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  Speaker 1: about which the writers of this age have made such
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  Speaker 1: a pother as if it was a new discovery, like
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  Speaker 1: the Copernican system. Every peculiarity of policy, custom, and even
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  Speaker 1: temperament is affectedly traced to this origin, as if the
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  Speaker 1: feudal constitution had not been common to almost all the
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  Speaker 1: natives of Europe. For my part, I expect to see
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  Speaker 1: the use of trunkose and buttered ale ascribed to the
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  Speaker 1: influence of the feudal system. The connection between the clans
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  Speaker 1: and their chiefs is without all doubt patriarchal. It is
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  Speaker 1: founded on hereditary regard and affection cherished through a long
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  Speaker 1: succession of ages. The clan consider the chief as their father,
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  Speaker 1: they bear his name, they believe themselves disced from his family,
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  Speaker 1: and they obey him as their lord with all the
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  Speaker 1: ardor of filial love and veneration, while he, on his part,
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  Speaker 1: exerts a paternal authority, commanding, chastising, rewarding, protecting, and maintaining
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  Speaker 1: them as his own children. If the legislature would entirely
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  Speaker 1: destroy this connection, it must compel the Highlanders to change
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  Speaker 1: their habitation and their names. Even this experiment has been
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  Speaker 1: formerly tried without success. In the reign of James, the
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  Speaker 1: Sixth of Battle was fought within a few short miles
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  Speaker 1: of this place between two clans, them Gregors and the Calhouns,
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  Speaker 1: in which the latter were defeated. The Laird of Gregor
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  Speaker 1: made such a barbarous use of his victory that he
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  Speaker 1: was forfeited and outlawed by act of Parliament. His lands
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  Speaker 1: were given to the family of Montrose, and his clan
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  Speaker 1: were obliged to change their name. They obeyed so far
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  Speaker 1: as to call themselves severally Campbell, Graham, or Drummond, the
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  Speaker 1: surnames of the families of Argyle, Montrose, and Perth, that
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  Speaker 1: they might enjoy the protection of those houses. But they
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  Speaker 1: still added Gregor to their new appellation, and as their
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  Speaker 1: chief was deprived of his estate, they robbed and plundered
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  Speaker 1: for his subsistence. Mister Cameron of Lochio, the chief of
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  Speaker 1: that clan, whose father was attainted head for having been
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  Speaker 1: concerned in the last rebellion, returning from France, in obedience
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  Speaker 1: to a proclamation and Act of Parliament passed at the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of the late war, paid a visit to his
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  Speaker 1: own country and hired a farm in the neighborhood of
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  Speaker 1: his father's house, which had been burned to the ground.
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  Speaker 1: The clan, though ruined and scattered, no sooner heard of
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  Speaker 1: his arrival than they flocked to him from all quarters
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  Speaker 1: to welcome his return, and in a few days stocked
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  Speaker 1: his farm with seven hundred black cattle, which they had
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  Speaker 1: saved in the general wreck of their affairs. But their
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  Speaker 1: beloved chief, who was a promising youth, did not live
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  Speaker 1: to enjoy the fruits of their fidelity and attachment. The
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  Speaker 1: most effectual method I know to weaken and at length
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  Speaker 1: destroy this influence is to employ the commonalty in such
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  Speaker 1: a manner as to give them a taste of property
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  Speaker 1: in thens independents in vain. The government grants them advantageous
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  Speaker 1: leases on the forfeited estates, if they have no property
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  Speaker 1: to prosecute the means of improvement. The sea is an
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  Speaker 1: inexhaustible fund of riches, but the fishery cannot be carried
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  Speaker 1: on without vessels, casks, salt lines, nets, and other tackle.
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  Speaker 1: I conversed with a sensible man of this country, from
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  Speaker 1: a real spirit of patriotism, had set up a fishery
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  Speaker 1: on the coast, and a manufacture of coarse linen for
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  Speaker 1: the employment of the poor Highlanders. Cod is here in
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  Speaker 1: such plenty that he told me he had seen several
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  Speaker 1: hundred taken on one line at one hull. It must
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  Speaker 1: be observed, however, that the line was of immense length
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  Speaker 1: and had two thousand hooks baited with mussels. But the
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  Speaker 1: fish was so superior to the cod caught on the
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  Speaker 1: banks of Newfoundland that his correspondent at Lisbon sold them
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  Speaker 1: immediately at his own price, although lent was just over
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  Speaker 1: when they arrived, and the people might be supposed quite
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  Speaker 1: cloyed with this kind of diet. His linen manufacture was
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  Speaker 1: likewise in a prosperous way. When the late war intervening,
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  Speaker 1: all his best hands were pressed into the service. It
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  Speaker 1: cannot be expected that the gentlemen of this country should
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  Speaker 1: execute commercial schemes to render their vassals independent, nor indeed
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  Speaker 1: are such schemes suited to their way of life and inclination.
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  Speaker 1: But a company of merchants might, with proper management, turned
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  Speaker 1: to good account of fishery established in this part of Scotland.
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  Speaker 1: Our people have a strangage to colonize America when the
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  Speaker 1: uncultivated parts of our own island might be settled to
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  Speaker 1: greater advantage. After having rambled through the mountains and glens
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  Speaker 1: of Argyle, we visited the adjacent islands of Ila, Jura,
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  Speaker 1: Mull and Icomkill. In the first we saw the remains
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  Speaker 1: of a castle built in a lake where MacDonald, Lord
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  Speaker 1: or King of the Isles, formerly resided. Jura is famous
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  Speaker 1: for having given birth to one mac Crane, who lived
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  Speaker 1: one hundred eighty years in one house and died in
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  Speaker 1: the reign of Charles the second Mullaford several bays where
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  Speaker 1: there is safe anchorage, in one of which the Florida,
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  Speaker 1: a ship of the Spanish Armada, was blown up by
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  Speaker 1: one of mister Smollett's ancestors about forty years ago. John
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  Speaker 1: Duke of Argyle, is said to have consulted the Spanish registers,
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  Speaker 1: by which it appeared that this ship had the military
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  Speaker 1: chest on board. He employed experienced divers to examine the wreck,
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  Speaker 1: and they found the hull of the vessels still entire,
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  Speaker 1: but so covered with sand that they could not make
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  Speaker 1: their way between decks. However, they picked up several pieces
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  Speaker 1: of plate that were scattered about in the bay, and
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  Speaker 1: a couple of fine brass cannon. Konkill or Iona is
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  Speaker 1: a small island which Street Columbus chose for his habitation.
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  Speaker 1: It was respected for its sanctity and college or seminary
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  Speaker 1: of Ecclesiastics. Part of its church is still standing, with
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  Speaker 1: the tombs of several Scottish, Irish and Danish sovereigns who
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  Speaker 1: were here interred. These islanders are very bold and dexterous watermen. Consequently,
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  Speaker 1: the better adapted to the fishery. In their manners, there
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  Speaker 1: less savage and impetuous than their countrymen on the continent,
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  Speaker 1: and they speak the Erse or Gaelic in its greatest purity.
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  Speaker 1: Having sent round our horses by land, we embarked in
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  Speaker 1: a distinctive cowl for Greeneck, which is a neat little
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  Speaker 1: town on the other side of the Frith, with a
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  Speaker 1: curious harbor formed by three stone jetties carried out a
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  Speaker 1: good way into the sea. Newport Glasgow is such another place,
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  Speaker 1: about two miles higher up. Both have a face of
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  Speaker 1: business and plenty, and are supported entirely by the shipping
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  Speaker 1: of Glasgow, of which I counted sixty large vessels in
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  Speaker 1: these harbors. Taking boat again at Newport, we were in
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  Speaker 1: less than an hour landed on the other side, within
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  Speaker 1: two short miles of our headquarters, where we found our
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  Speaker 1: women in good health and spirits. They had been two
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  Speaker 1: days before, joined by mister Smollett and his lady, to
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  Speaker 1: whom we have such obligations as I cannot mention even
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  Speaker 1: to you without blushing. Tomorrow we shall bid adieu to
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  Speaker 1: the Scotch Arcadia and begin our progress to the southward,
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  Speaker 1: taking our way by Lanark and Nithssdale to the west
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  Speaker 1: borders of England. I have received so much advantage and
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  Speaker 1: satisfaction from this tour that if my health suffers no
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  Speaker 1: revolution in the winter, I believe I shall be tempted
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  Speaker 1: to undertake another expedition to the northern extremity of caith Ness,
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  Speaker 1: unencumbered by those impediments which now clogged the heels of yours.
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  Speaker 1: Matt Bramble Cameron, September sixth, to Miss Letitia Willis at Gloucester,
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  Speaker 1: My dearest Letty. Never did poor prisoner long for deliverance
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  Speaker 1: more than I have longed for an opportunity to disburthen
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  Speaker 1: my cares into your friendly bosom. And the occasion which
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  Speaker 1: now presents itself is little less than miraculous. Honest Saunders McCauley,
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  Speaker 1: the traveling scotchman who goes every year to Wales, is
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  Speaker 1: now at Glasgow, buying goods and coming to pay his
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  Speaker 1: respects to our family, has undertaken to deliver this letter
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  Speaker 1: into your own hand. We have been six weeks in
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  Speaker 1: Scotland and seen the principal towns of the Kingdom, where
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  Speaker 1: we have been treated with great civility. The people are
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  Speaker 1: very courteous, and the country being exceedingly romantic. Suits my
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  Speaker 1: turn and inclinations. I contracted some friendships at Edinburgh, which
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  Speaker 1: is a large and lofty city full of gay company,
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  Speaker 1: and in particular commenced an intimate correspondence with one Miss
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  Speaker 1: bar t N, an amiable young lady of my own age,
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  Speaker 1: whose charms seemed to soften and even to subdue the
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  Speaker 1: stubborn heart of my brother Jerry. But he no sooner
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  Speaker 1: left the place than he relapsed into his former insensibility.
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  Speaker 1: I feel, however, that this indifference is not the family
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  Speaker 1: constitution I never admitted, but one idea of love, and
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  Speaker 1: that has taken such root in my heart as to
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  Speaker 1: be equally proof against all the polls of discretion and
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  Speaker 1: the frosts of neglect. Dear Letty, I had an alarming
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  Speaker 1: adventure at the Hunter's Ball in Edinburgh. While I sat
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  Speaker 1: discoursing with a friend in a corner, all at once
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  Speaker 1: the very image of Wilson stood before me, dressed exactly
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  Speaker 1: as he was in the character of Amwell. It was
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  Speaker 1: one mister Gordon, whom I had not seen before. Shocked
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  Speaker 1: at the sudden apparition, I fainted away, and through the
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  Speaker 1: whole assembly in confusion. However, the cause of my disorder
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  Speaker 1: remained a secret to every body but my brother, who
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  Speaker 1: was likewise struck with the resemblance and scolded after we
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  Speaker 1: came home. I am very sensible of Jerry's affection, and
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  Speaker 1: know he spoke as well with a view to my
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  Speaker 1: own interest and happiness, as in regard to the honor
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  Speaker 1: of the family. But I cannot bear to have my
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  Speaker 1: wounds probed severely. I was not so much affected by
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  Speaker 1: the censure he passed upon my own indiscretion, as with
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  Speaker 1: the reflection he made on the conduct of Wilson. He
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  Speaker 1: observed that if he was really the gentleman he pretended
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  Speaker 1: to be, and harbored nothing but honorable designs, he would
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  Speaker 1: have vindicated his pretensions in the face of day. This
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  Speaker 1: remark made a deep impression upon my mind. I endeavored
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  Speaker 1: to conceal my thoughts, and this endeavor had a bad
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  Speaker 1: effect upon my health and spirits. So it was thought
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  Speaker 1: necessary that I should go to the highlands and drink
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  Speaker 1: the goat milk. Way we went accordingly to lock Low,
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  Speaker 1: one of the most enchanting spots in the whole world.
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  Speaker 1: And what with this remedy which I had every morning
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  Speaker 1: fresh from the mountains, and the pure air and cheerful company.
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  Speaker 1: I have recovered my flesh and appetite, though there is
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  Speaker 1: something still at bottom which it is not in the
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  Speaker 1: power of air, exercise, company, or medicine to remove. These
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: incidents would not touch me so nearly if I had
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: a sensible confidant to sympathize with my affliction and comfort
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: me with wholesome advice. I have nothing of this kind,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: except when Jenkins, who is really a good body in
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: the main, but very ill qualified for such an office.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: The poor creature is weak in her nerves as well
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: as in her understanding. Otherwise I might have known the
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: true name and character of that unfortunate youth. But why
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: do I call him unfortunate? Perhaps the epithet is more
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: applicable to me for having listened to the false professions
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: of but hold, I have as yet no right, and
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: sure I have no inclination to believe anything to the
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: prejudice of his honor. In that reflection, I shall still
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: exert my patience. As for missus Jenkins, she herself is
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: really an object of compassion. Between vanity, methodism, and love.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Her head is almost turned. I should have more regard
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: for her. However, if she had been more constant in
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: the object of her affection. But truly she aimed at conquest,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: and flirted at the same time with my uncle's footman,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Humphrey Clinker, who is really a deserving young man, and
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: one Dutton, my brother's valet de Chamber, a debauched fellow, who,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: leaving Wynn in the lurch, ran away with another man's
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: bride at Berwick. My dear Willis, I am truly ashamed
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: of my own sex. We complain of advantages which the
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: men take of our youth, inexperience, insensibility, and all that.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: But I have seen enough to believe that our sex
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: in general make it their business to ensnare the other,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: and for this purpose employ arts which are by no
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: means to be justified in point of constancy. They certainly
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: have nothing to reproach the male part of the creation.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: My poor aunt, without any regard to her years and imperfections,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: has gone to market with her charms in every place
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: where she thought she had the least chance to dispose
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: of her person, which, however, hangs still heavy on her hands.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: I am afraid she has used even religion as a decoy,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: though it has not answered her expectation. She has been praying,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: preaching and catechising among the Methodists with whom this country abounds,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: and pretends to have such manifestations and revelations as even
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Clinker himself can hardly believe. Though the poor fellow is
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: half crazy with enthusiasm. As for Jenkins, she affects to
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: take all her mistress's reveries for gospel. She has also
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: her heart heavings and motions of the Spirit. And God.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Forgive me if I think uncharitably, but all this seems
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: to me to be downright hypocrisy and deceit. Perhaps indeed
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: the poor girl imposes on herself. She is generally in
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: a flutter and is much subject to vapors. Since we
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: came to Scotland, she has seen apparitions and pretends to prophesy.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: If I could put faith in all these supernatural visitations,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I should think myself abandon of grace, for I have
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: neither seen, heard, nor felt anything of this nature. Although
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I endeavor to discharge the duties of religion with all
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: the sincerity, zeal and devotion that is in the power
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: of dear Letty, your ever affectionate Lydia Melford, Glasgow, September seventh.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: We are so far on our return to Brambleton Hall,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: and I would fain hope we shall take Gloucester in
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: our way, in which case I shall have the inexpressible
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: pleasure of embracing my dear Willis. Pray remember me to
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: my worthy Governess, to missus Mary Jones at Brambleton Hall.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Dear Mary sunders Mackley, the scotchman who pushes directly for veils,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: has promised to give it you into your own hand,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: and therefore I would not miss the opportunity to let
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: you know, as I am still in the land of
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: the living, and yet I have been on the brink
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: of the other world since I sent you my last letter. Dot.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: We went by sea to another kingdom called Fife, and
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: coming back had liked to have gone to pot in
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: a storm. Dot. What between the freet and sickness, I
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: thought I should have brought my heart up. Even mister
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Clinker was not his own man. For eight and forty
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: hours after we got ashore, it was well for some
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: folks that we scaped Drownding, for Mistress was very fractious
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: and seemed but indifferently prepared for a change, but thank
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: god she was soon put in a better frame by
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: the private exaltations of the reverend mister macrocodyled. We afterwards
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: churned to Starling and Gracau, which are a kiple of
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: handsome towns, And then we went to a gentleman's house
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: at La Flo Main, which is a wonderful sea of
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: fresh water with a power of highlands in the midst
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Aunt dot Bay. Say as how it has entered a
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: bottom and was made by a musician, And truly I
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: believe it, for it is not in the course of nature. Dot.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: It has got waves without wind, fish without fins, and
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: a floating highland. And one of them is a crutch
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: yard where the dead are buried, and always before the
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: person dies, a bell rings of itself to give warning.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Oh Mary, this is the land of conjuration. The bell knowlled.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: When we were there, I saw lights and heard lamentations. Dot.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: The gentleman, our landlord, has got another house which he
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: was fain to quit on account of a mischievous ghost
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: that would not suffer people to lie in their beds.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: The fairies dwell in a hole of caermen amounting hard by,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: and they steal away the good women that are in
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: the straw. If so be as how there a and
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: a horseshoe nailed to the door, and I was shown
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: an old witch called elspath ring of ay, with a
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: red petticoat, bleared eyes, and a mold of gray bristles
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: on her sin. Dot that she mought do me no harm.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I crossed her hand with a taster and bid her
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: tell my fortune. And she told me such things, describing
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: mister Clinker to a hair. But it shall ne'er be
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: said that I mentioned a word of the matter. Dot.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: As I was troubled with fits, she advised me to
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: bathe in the loft, which was holy water. And so
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I went in the morning to a private place along
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: with the housemaid, and we bathe in our birthday soot,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: after the fashion of the country. And behold, whilst we
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: dabbled in the loft, Sir George Coon started up with
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: a gun, but we clapped our hands to our faces
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: and passed by him to the place where we had
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: left our smocks. A civil gentleman would have turned his
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: head another way. Dot, My comfort is he knew not
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: which was which. And as the saying is, all cats
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: in the dark are gray. Whilst we stayed at La
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Flo Main, he and our two squires went three or
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: four days churning among the wild men of the mountings.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: A parcel of salvages that lie in caves among the
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: rocks devour young children speak velch, but the boards are different.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Our ladies would not part with mister Clinker, because he
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: is so stout and so pie house that he fears
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: neither man nor devils, if so be as they don't
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: take him by surprise dot. Indeed, he was once so
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: flurried by an operition that he had liked to have
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: sounded dot. He made believe as if it had been
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: the old Admiral. But the old Admiral could not have
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: made his heir to stand on end and his teeth
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: to shatter. But he said so in prudence that the
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: ladies ought not be afeared. Miss Liddy has been puny
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: and like to go into a decline. I doubt her
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: poor art is too tender, But the got'svey has set
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: her on her legs again. You nows gotsvey is mother's
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: milk to a velch woman. As for Mistress blessed be God,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: she ails nothing that her stomach is good and she
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: improves in Greece and godliness. But for all that, she
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: may have infections like other people. And I believe she
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be sorry to be called your ladyship whenever Sir
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: George thinks proper to ax the question. But for my part,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: whatever I may see or hear, not a practical shall
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: ever pass the lips of dear Molly, your loving friend.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: When Jenkins Grascow September seventh, remember me as usual to Sault.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: We are now coming home, though not the nearest road
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: dot I do suppose I shall find the kitten a
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: fine boar at my return to Sir Watkin Phillips bart
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: at Oxon, dear Knight. Once more I tread upon English ground,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: which I like not the worse for the six weeks
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: ramble I have made among the woods and mountains of Caledonia.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: No offense to the land of cakes, where bannocks grow
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: upon straw. I never saw my uncle in such health
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: and spirits as he now enjoys Lyddy is perfectly recovered,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: and Missus Tabitha has no reason to complain. Nevertheless, I
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: believe she was till yesterday inclined to give the whole
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Scotch nation to the devil as a pack of insensible
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: brutes upon whom her accomplishments had been displayed in vain.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Dot At every place where we halted did she mount
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the stage and flourish her rusty arms without being able
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: to make one conquest. One of her last essays was
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: against the heart of Sir George Calhoun, with whom she
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: fought all the weapons more than twice over dot She
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: it was grave and gay. By turns she moralized and methodized.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: She laughed and romped, and danced, and sung and sighed,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: and ogled and lisped, and fluttered and flattered, but all
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: was preaching to the dissart. The baronet, being a well
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: bred man, carried his civilities as far as she could
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: in conscience expect, and if evil tongues are to be believed,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: some degrees farther. But he was too much a veteran
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: in gallantry as well as in war to fall into
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: any ambuscade that she could lay for his affection. While
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: we were absent in the highlands, she practiced also upon
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: the Laird of Latyshmore, and even gave him the rendezvous
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: in the wood of Drumscalic. But the laird had such
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: a reverend care of his own reputation that he came
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: attended with the parson of the parish, and nothing passed
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: but spiritual communication. After all these miscarriages, our aunt suddenly
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: recollected Lieutenant lis Mahego, whom, ever, since our first arrival
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: at Edinburgh, she seemed to have utterly forgot, But now
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: she expressed her hopes of seeing him at dumb. According
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: to his promise, we set out from Glasgow by the
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: way of Lanark, the county town of Clydesdale, in the
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: neighborhood of which the whole river Clyde, rushing down a
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: steep rock, forms a very noble and stupendous cascade. Next
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: day we were obliged to halt in a small burrow
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: until the carriage, which had received some damage, should be repaired.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: And here we met with an incident which warmly interested
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: the benevolent spirit of mister Bramble. As we stood at
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: the window of an inn that fronted the public prison,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: a person arrived on horseback, genteelly, though plainly dressed in
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: a blue frock, with his own hair cut short and
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: a gold laced hat. Upon his head dot. Alighting and
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: giving his horse to the landlord, he advanced to an
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: old man who was at work in paving the street,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: and accosted him in these words, this is hard work
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: for such an old man as you, so saying, he
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: took the instrument out of his hand and began to
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: thump the pavement dot. After a few strokes, Have you
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: never a son, said he to ease you of this labor, Yes,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: and please your honor, replied the senior, I have three
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: hopeful lads, but at present they are out of the way.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Honor not me, cried the stranger. But more becomes me
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: to honor your gray hairs. Where are those sons you
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: talk of? The ancient pavier said his eldest son was
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: a captain in the East Indies, and the youngest had
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: lately enlisted as a soldier in hopes of prospering like
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: his brother. The gentleman, desiring to know what was become
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: of the second, he wiped his eyes and owned he
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: had taken upon him his old father's debts, for which
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: he was now in the prison. Hard By, the traveler
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: made three quick steps towards the jail, then, turning short,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: tell me said he has that unnatural captain sent you
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: nothing to relieve your distress. Call him not unnatural, replied
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: the other. God's blessing be upon him. He sent me
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: a great deal of money, but I made a bad
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: use of it. I lost it by being security for
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: a gentleman that was my landlord, and was stripped of
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: all I had in the world. Besides. At that instant,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: a young man, thrusting out his head and neck between
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: two iron bars in the prison window, exclaimed, Father, Father,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: if my brother William is in life, that's he I am.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: I am, cried the stranger, clasping the old man in
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: his arms and shedding a flood of tears. I am
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: your son Willie. Sure enough. Before the father, who was
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: quite confounded, could make any return to this tenderness, a
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: decent old woman, bolting out from the door of a
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: poor habitation, cried, where is my barn? Where is my
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: dear Willie. The captain no sooner beheld her than he
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: quitted his father and ran into her embrace. I can
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: assure you, my uncle, who saw and heard everything that passed,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: was as much moved as any one of the parties
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: concerned in this pathetic recognition. He sobbed and wept, and
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: clapped his hands and hollowed, and finally ran down into
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: the street. By this time the captain had retired with
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: his parents, and all the inhabitants of the place were
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: assembled at the door. Dot mister Bramble nevertheless pressed through
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: the crowd, and entering the house, captain said he, I
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: beg the favor of your acquaintance. I would have traveled
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: a hundred miles to see this affecting scene, and I
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: shall think myself happy if you and your parents will
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: dine with me at the public house. The captain thanked
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: him for his kind invitation, which he said he would
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: accept with pleasure, But in the meantime he could not
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: think of eating or drinking while his poor brother was
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: in trouble. He forthwith deposited a sum equal to the
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: dead in the hands of the magistrate, who ventured to
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: set his brother at liberty without farther process. And then
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: the whole family repaired to thee inn, with my uncle
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: attended by the crowd, the individuals of which shook their
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: townsmen by the hand while he returned their caresses without
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: the least sign of pride or affectation. This honest favorite
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: of fortune, whose name was Brown, told my uncle that
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: he had been bred a weaver, and about eighteen years ago, had,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: from a spirit of idleness and dissipation, enlisted as a
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: soldier in the service of the East India Company. That
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: in the course of duty he had the good fortune
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: to attract the notice and approbation of Lord Clive, who
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: preferred him from one step to another till he attained
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: the rank of captain and paymaster to the regiment in
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: which capacities he had honestly amassed above twelve thousand pounds,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: and at the peace resigned his commission. Dot He had
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: sent several remittances to his father, who received the first
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: only consisting of one hundred pounds, The second had fallen
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: into the hands of a bankrupt and the third had
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: been consigned to a gentleman of Scotland who died before
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: it arrived, so that it still remained to be accounted
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: for by his executors. He now presented the old man
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: with fifty pounds for his present occasions, over and above
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: bank notes for one hundred which he had deposited for
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: his brother's release. Dot He brought along with him a
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: deed ready executed, by which he settled a perpetuity of
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: fourscore pounds upon his parents, to be inherited by their
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: other two sons after their deceased. Dot he promised to
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: purchase a commission for his youngest brother to take the
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: other as his own partner in a manufacture which he
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: intended to set up, to give employment and bread to
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: the industrious, and to give five hundred pounds by way
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: of dower to his sister, who had married a farmer
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: in low circumstances. Finally, he gave fifty pounds to the
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: poor of the town where he was born, and feasted
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: all the inhabitants without exception. My uncle was so charmed
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: with the character of Captain Brown that he drank his
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: health three times successively. At dinner, he said he was
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: proud of his acquaintance, that he was an honor to
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: his country, and had, in some measure redeemed human nature
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: from the reproach of pride, selfishness, and ingratitude. Dot. For
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: my part, I was as much pleased with the modesty
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: as with the filial virtue of this honest soldier, who
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: assumed no merit for his sages excess and said very
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: little of his own transactions, though the answers he made
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: to our inquiries were equally sensible and laconic. Missus Tabitha
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: behaved very graciously to him until she understood that he
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: was going to make a tender of his hand to
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: a person of low estate who had been his sweetheart
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: while he worked as a journeyman weaverdot Power aunt was
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: no sooner made acquainted with this design than she starched
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: up her behavior with a double proportion of reserve, And
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: when the company broke up, she observed with a toss
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: of her nose that Brown was a civil fellow enough,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: considering the lowness of his original but that Fortune, though
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: she had mended his circumstances, was incapable to raise his ideas,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: which were still humble and plebeian. On the day that
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: succeeded this adventure, we went some miles out of our
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: road to see drum Lendrick, a seat belonging to the
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Duke of Queensberry, which appears like a magnificent palace erected
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: by magic in the midst of a wilderness. Dot. It
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: is indeed a princely mansion with suitable parks and plantations,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: rendered still more striking by the nakedness of the surrounding country,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: which is one of the wildest tracts in all Scotland
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: dot This wildness, however, is different from that of the Highlands.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: For here the mountains, instead of heath, are covered with
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: a fine green swarth, affording pasture to innumerable flocks of sheep.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: But the fleeces of this country called Nithsdale are not
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: comparable to the wool of Galloway, which is said to
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: equal that of Salisbury Plain. Having passed the night at
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: the castle of Drumlandrig by invitation from the Duke himself,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: who is one of the best men that ever breathed,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: we prosecuted our journey to Dumfries, a very elegant trading
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: town near the borders of England, where we found plenty
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: of good provision and excellent wine at very reasonable prices,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: and the accommodation as good in all respects as in
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: any part of South Britain. If I was confined to
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Scotland for life, I would choose Dumfries as the place
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: of my residence. Here we made inquiries about Captain lis Mahego,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: of whom hearing no tidings we preceded by the Salway
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Frith to Carlisle. You must know that the Solway sands
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: upon which travelers pass at low water, are exceedingly dangerous,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: because as the tide makes they become quick in different places,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: and the flood rushes in so impetuously that the passengers
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: are often overtaken by the sea and perish in crossing
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: these treacherous surges. With a guide. We perceived a drowned horse,
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: which Humphrey Clinker, after due inspection, declared to be the
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: very identical beast which mister Lesmahago rode when he parted
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: with us at Felton Bridge in Northumberland. This information, which
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: seemed to intimate that our friend the Lieutenant had shared
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: the fate of his horse, affected us all, and above
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: all our aunt Tabitha, who shed saltears and obliged Clinker
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: to pull a few hairs out of the dead horse's
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: tail to be worn in a ring as a remembrance
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: of his master. But her grief in ours was not
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: of long duration. For one of the first persons we
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: saw in Carlisle was the Lieutenant in appropriate sona bargaining
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: with a horse dealer for another steed in the yard
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: of the inn, where we alighted that Missus Bramble was
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: the first that perceived him, and screamed as if she
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: had seen a ghost. And truly, at a proper time
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: and place, he might very well have passed for an
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: inhabitant of another world, for he was more meager and
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: grim than before. Dot. We received him the more cordially
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: for having supposed he had been drowned, and he was
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: not deficient in expressions of satisfaction. At this meeting. He
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: told us he had inquired for us at Dumfries and
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: been informed by a traveling merchant from Glasgow that we
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: had resolved to return by the way of Coldstream. He
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: said that in passing the sands without a guide, his
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: horse had knocked up, and he himself must have perished
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: if he had not been providentially relieved by a return
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: post chaise dot. He moreover gave us to understand that
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: his scheme of settling in his own country having miscarried.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: He was so far on his way to London, with
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: a view to embark for North America, where he intended
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: to pass the rest of his days among his old friends.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: The Miamis, and amuse himself in finishing the education of
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: the sun he had by his beloved squinkin Acusta. This
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: project was by no means agreeable to our good aunt,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: who expatiated upon the fatigues and dangers that would attend
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: such a long voyage by sea, and afterwards such a
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: tedious journey by land. She enlarged, particularly on the risque
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: he would run with respect to the concerns of his
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: precious soul among savages who had not yet received the
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: glad tidings of salvation. And she hinted that his abandoning
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Great Britain might perhaps proved fatal to the inclinations of
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: some deserving person whom he was qualified to make happy
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: for life. My uncle, who is really a don quixote
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: in generosity, understanding that lis Mahego's real reason for leaving
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Scotland was the impossibility of subsisting in it with any
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: decency upon the wretched provision of a subaltern's half pay,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: began to be warmly interested on the side of compassion.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Dot He thought it very hard guard that a gentleman
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: who had served his country with honor should be driven
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: by necessity to spend his old age among the refuse
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: of mankind in such a remote part of the world. Dot.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: He discoursed with me upon the subject, observing that he
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: would willingly offer the Lieutenant an asylum at Brambleton Hall
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: if he did not foresee that his singularities and humor
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: of contradiction would render him an intolerable housemate, though his
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: conversation at some times might be both instructive and entertaining.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: But as there seemed to be something particular in his
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: attention to missus Tabitha, he and I agreed in opinion
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: that this intercourse should be encouraged and improved, if possible,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: into a matrimonial union, in which case there would be
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: a comfortable provision for both, and they might be settled
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: in a house of their own, so that mister Bramble
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: should have no more of their company than he desired.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: In pursuance of this design, Liz Machegel has been invited
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: to pass the winter at Brambleton Hall, as it will
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: be time enough to execute his American project in the spring. Dot.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: He has taken time to consider of this proposal. Meanwhile,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: he will keep us company as far as we travel
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: on the road to Bristol, where he has hopes of
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: getting a passage for America. I make no doubt but
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: that he will postpone his voyage and prosecute his addresses
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: to a happy consummation. And sure, if it produces any fruit,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: it must be of a very peculiar flavor. As the
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: weather continues favorable, I believe we shall take the peak
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: of Derbyshire and Buxton Wells in our way dot at
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: any rate, from the first place where we make any stay,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: ye shall hear again from yours always. J. Melford Carlyle,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: September twelfth to Doctor Lewis, Dear doctor, the peasantry of
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Scotland are certainly on a poor footing all over the Kingdom.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: And yet they look better and are better clothed than
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: those of the same rank in Burgundy and many other
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: places of France and Italy. Nay, I will venture to
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: say they are better fed, notwithstanding the boasted wine of
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: these foreign countries. The country people of North Britain live
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: chiefly on oatmeal and milk, cheese, butter, and some garden stuff,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: with now and then a pickled herring by way of delicacy.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: But flesh meat they seldom or never taste nor any
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: kind of strong liquor, except twopenny at times of uncommon festivity.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Their breakfast is a kind of hasty pudding of oatmeal
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: or pea's meal, eaten with milk. They have commonly pottage
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: for dinner, composed of keil or coal, leeks, barley or
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: big and butter, and this is reinforced with bread and
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: cheese made of skimmed milk. At night, they sup on
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: sowins or flummery of oatmeal. In a scarcity of oats,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: they use the meal of barley and peas, which is
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: both nourishing and palatable. Some of them have potatoes, and
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: you find parsnips in every peasant's garden. They are clothed
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: with a coarse kind of russet of their own making,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: which is both decent and warm. They dwell in poor
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: huts built of loose stones and turf, without any mortar,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: having a fireplace or hearth in the middle, generally made
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: of an old millstone and a hole at top to
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: let out the smoke. These people, however, are content and
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: wonderfully sagacious. All of them read the Bible and are
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: even qualified to dispute upon the articles of their faith,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: which in those parts one have seen is entirely Presbyterian.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: I am told that the inhabitants of Aberdeenshire are still
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: more acute. I once knew a Scotch gentleman at London
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: who had declared war against this part of his countrymen,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: and swore that the impudence and knavery of the Scots
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: in that quarter had brought a reproach upon the whole nation.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: The River Clyde above Glasgow is quite pastoral, and the
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: banks of it are everywhere adorned with fine villas. From
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: the sea to its source, we may reckon the seats
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: of many families of the first rank, such as the
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Duke of Argyle at Roseneth, the Earl of Bute in
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: the isle of that name, the Earl of Glencaren at Finlayston,
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: Lord Blantyre at Ariskine, the Duchess of Douglas at Bothwell,
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Duke Hamilton at Hamilton, the Duke of Douglas at Douglas,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: and the Earl of Hindford at Carmichael. Hamilton is a
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: noble palace, magnificently furnished and hard by is the village
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: of that name, one of the neatest little towns I
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: have seen in any country. The old castle of Douglas
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: being burned to the ground by accident. The late Duke resolved,
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: as head of the first family of Scotland, to have
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: the largest house in the Kingdom, and ordered a plan
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: for this purpose, but there was only one wing of
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: it finished when he died. It is to be hoped
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: that his nephew, who is now in possession of his
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: great fortune, will complete the design of his predecessor. Clydesdale
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: is in general populace and rich, containing a great number
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: of gentlemen who are independent in their fortune, but it
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: produces more cattle than corn. This is also the case
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: with Tweedale, through part of which we passed, and Mithsdale,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: which is generally rough, wild and mountainous. These hills are
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: covered with sheep, and this is the small, delicious mutton,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: so much preferable to that of the London market, as
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: their feeding costs so little. The sheep are not killed
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: till five years old, when their flesh, juices and flavor
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: are in perfection. But their fleeces are much damaged by
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: the tar with which they are smeared to preserve them
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: from the rot. In winter, during which they run wild
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: night and day, and thousands are lost under huge wreaths
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: of snow. Tis pity the farmers cannot contrive some means
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: to shelter this useful animal from the inclemencies of a
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: rigorous climate, especially from the perpetual rains, which are more
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: prejudicial than the greatest extremity of cold weather. On the
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: little River n I d is situated the castle of Drumlandrig,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: one of the noblest seats in Great Britain, belonging to
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: the Duke of Queensberry, one of those few noblemen whose
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: goodness of heart does honor to human nature. I shall
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: not pretend to enter into a description of this palace,
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: which is really an instance of the sublime and magnificence,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: as well as in situation, and puts one in mind
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: of the beautiful city of Palmyra, rising like a vision
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: in the midst of the wilderness. His grace keeps open
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: house and lives with great splendor. He did us the
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: honor to receive us with great courtesy, and detained us
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: all night together with above twenty other guests, with all
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: their servants and horses, to a very considerable number. The
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Duchess was equally gracious and took our ladies under her
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: immediate protection. The longer I live, I see more reason
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: to believe that prejudices of education are never wholly eradicated,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: even when they are discovered to be erroneous and absurd.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: Such habits of thinking as interest, the grand passions cleave
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: to the human heart in such a manner that though
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: an effort of reason may force them from their hold
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: for a moment, this violence no sooner ceases than they
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: resumed their grasp with an increased elasticity and adhesion. I
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: am led into this reflection by what passed at the
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: Duke's table after supper. The conversation turned upon the vulgar
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: notions of spirits and omens that prevail among the commonalty
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: of North Britain, and all the company agreed that nothing
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: could be more ridiculous. One gentlemen, however, told a remarkable
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: story of himself by way of speculation. Being on a
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: party of hunting in the north, said he I resolved
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: to visit an old friend whom I had not seen
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: for twenty years, so long he had been retired and
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: sequestered from all his acquaintance, and lived in a moping,
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: melancholy way, much afflicted with lowness of spirits occasioned by
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: the death of his wife, whom he had loved with
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: uncommon affection. As he resided in a remote part of
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: the country, and we were five gentlemen with as many servants,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: we carried some provision with us from the next market town,
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: lest we should find him unprepared for our reception. The
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: roads being bad, we did not arrive at the house
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: till two o'clock in the afternoon, and were agreeably surprised
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: to find a very good dinner ready in the kitchen,
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: and the cloth laid with six covers. My friend himself
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: appeared in his best apparel at the gate and received
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: us with open arms, telling me he had been expecting
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: us these two hours. Astonished at this declaration, I asked
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: who had given him in tell diligence of our coming,
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: and he smiled without making any other reply. However, presuming
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: upon our former intimacy, I afterwards insisted upon knowing, and
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: he told me very gravely he had seen me in
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: a vision of the second sight. Nay, he called in
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: the evidence of his steward, who solemnly declared that his
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: master had the day before apprised him of my coming
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: with four other strangers, and ordered him to provide accordingly.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: In consequence of which intimation he had prepared the dinner
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: which we were now eating, and laid the covers according
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: to the number foretold. The incident we all owned to
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: be remarkable, and I endeavored to account for it by
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: natural means. I observed that, as the gentleman was of
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: a visionary turn, the casual idea or remembrance of his
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: old friend might suggest those circumstances which accident had for
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: once realized, but that in all probability he had seen
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: many visions of the same kind, which were never verified.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: None of the company directly dissented from my opinion, but
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: from the objections that were hinted, I could plainly perceive
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: that the majority were persuaded there was something more extraordinary
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: in a case. Another gentleman of the company, addressing himself
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: to me without all doubt, said he, a diseased imagination
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: is very apt to produce visions. But we must find
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: some other method to account for something of this kind
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: that happened within these eight days in my neighborhood. A
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: gentleman of a good family, who cannot be deemed a
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: visionary in any sense of the word, was near his
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: own gait in the twilight, visited by his grandfather, who
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: has been dead these fifteen years. The specter was mounted
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: seemingly on the very horse he used to ride, with
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: an angry and terrible countenance, and said something which his grandson,
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: in the confusion of fear, could not understand. But this
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: was not all. He lifted up a huge horse whip
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: and applied it with great violence to his back and shoulders,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: on which I saw the impression with my own eyes.
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: The apparition was afterwards seen by the sexton of the parients,
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: hovering about the tomb where his body lies interred. As
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: the man declared to several persons in the village before
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: he knew what had happened to the gentleman. Nay, he
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: actually came to me as a justice of the peace,
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: in order to make oath of these particulars, which, however,
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: I declined administering. As for the grandson of the defunct,
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: he is a sober, sensible, worldly minded fellow, too intent
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: upon schemes of interest to give in to reveries. He
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: would have willingly concealed the affair, but he bawled out
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: in the first transport of his fear, and running into
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: the house, exposed his back in his sconce to the
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: whole family, so that there was no denying it. In
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: the sequel, it is now the common discourse of the
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: country that this appearance and behavior of the old man's
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: spirit portends some great calamity to the family, and the
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: good woman has actually taken to her bed in this apprehension.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Though I did not pretend to explain this mystery, I said,
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: I did not at all doubt, but it would one
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: day appear to be a deception, and in all all
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: probability a scheme executed by some enemy of the person
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: who had sustained the assault. But still the gentlemen insisted
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: upon the clearness of the evidence and the concurrence of testimony,
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: by which two creditable witnesses, without any communication one with another,
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: affirmed the appearance of the same man with whose person
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: they were both well acquainted. From Drumlanrig we pursued the
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: course of the n I d to Dumfries, which stands
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: seven miles above the place where the river falls into
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: the sea, and is after Glasgow, the handsomest town I
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: have seen in Scotland. The inhabitants indeed seemed to have
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: proposed that city as their model, not only in beautifying
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: their town and regulating its police, but also in prosecuting
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: their schemes of commerce and manufacture by which they are
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: grown rich and opulent. We re entered England by the
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: way of Carlisle, where we accidentally met with our friend
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: Liz Mahego, whom we had in vain inquired after at
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: Dumfries and other places. It would seem that the captain,
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: like the prophets of old, is but little honored in
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: his own country, which he has now renounced forever. He
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: gave me the following particulars of his visit to his
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: native soil. In his way to the place of his nativity,
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: he learned that his nephew had married the daughter of
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: a bourgeois who directed a weaving manufacture, and had gone
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: into partnership with his father in law. Chagrined with this information,
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: he had arrived at the gate in the twilight, where
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: he heard the sound of treatles in the Great Hall,
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: which had exasperated him to such a degree that he
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: had liked to have lost his senses. While he was
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: thus transported with indignation, his nephew chanced to come forth, When,
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: being no longer master of his passion, he cried, degenerate rascal,
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: you have made my father's house a den of thieves,
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: and at the same time chastised him with his horsewhip,
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: then riding round the adjoining village. He had visited the
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: burying ground of his ancestors by moonlight, and having paid
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: his respects to their manies, traveled all night to another
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: part of the country, finding the head of the family
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: in such a disgrace situation, all his own friends dead
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: or removed from the places of their former residence, and
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: the expense of living increased to double of what it
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: had been when he first left his native country. He
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: had bid it an eternal ado, and was determined to
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: seek for repose among the forests of America. I was
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: no longer at a loss to account for the apparition,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: which had been described a drumlandic, and when I repeated
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: the story to the Lieutenant, he was much pleased to
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: think his resentment had been so much more effectual than
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: he intended, and he owned he might at such an hour,
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: and in such an equipage, very well pass for the
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: ghost of his father, whom he was said greatly to resemble.
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: Between friends. I fancy lis Mahego will find a retreat
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: without going so far as the wigwams of the miamis.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: My sister Tabby is making continual advances to him in
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: the way of affection, and if I may trust to appearances,
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: the captain is disposed to take opportunity by the forelock.
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: For my part, I intend to encourage this correspondence, and
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: shall be glad to see them united. In that case,
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: we shall find a way to settle them comfortably in
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: our own neighborhood. I and my servants will get rid
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: of a very troublesome and tyrannic gouvernante, and I shall
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: have the benefit of lis Mahego's conversation without being obliged
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: to take more of his company than I desire. For.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: Though in Alyya is a high flavored dish, I could
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: not bear to dine upon it every day of my life.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: I am much pleased with Manchester, which is one of
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: the most agreeable and flourishing towns in Great Britain. And
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: I perceive that this is the place which hath animated
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: the spirit and suggested the chief manufactures of Glasgow. We
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: propose to visit Chatsworth, the Peak, and Buxton, from which
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: last place we shall proceed directly homewards, though by easy journeys.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: If the season has been as favorable in Wales as
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: in the North, your harvest is happily finished, and we
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: have nothing left to think of but our October, of
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: which let Barnes be properly reminded. You will find me
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: much better in flesh than I was at our parting,
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: and this short separation has given a new edge to
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: those sentiments of friendship with which I always have been
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: and ever shall be Yours. Matt bramble Manchester, September fifteenth,
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: to missus Gwillim, housekeeper at Brambleton Hall, Unress g Willem.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: It has pleased Providence to bring us safe back to
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: England and partake us in many pearls by land and water,
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: in particular the Devil's hearts of Pike and Hoyden's whole,
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: which have got no bottom. And as we are drawing homewards,
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: it may be proper to uprize you that Brambleton Hall
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: may be in condition to receive us after this long
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: journey to the islands of Scotland. By the first of
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: next month, you may begin to make constant fires in
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: my brother's chamber and mine, and burn a faggot every
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: day in the yellow damask room. Have the tester and
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: curtains dusted, and the feather bed and matresses well haired,
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: because perhaps with the blissing of Haven, they may be
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: used on some occasion. Let the old hogsheads be well skew,
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: red and seasoned for bear, as man is resolved to
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: have his cellar choke fool. If the house was mine,
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: I would turn over a new leaf. I don't see
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: why the servants of whales shouldn't drink fair water and
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: eat hot cakes and barley kale as they do in Scotland,
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: without troubling the bocher above. Once a quarter. I hope
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: you keep a cut of Roger's pursing in reverence to
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: the buttermilk. I expect my dew when I come Hume
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: without baiting an ass. I'll assure you dot as you
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: must have laid a great many more eggs than would
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: be eaten. I do suppose there is a power of turks,
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: chickens and guzzling about the house, and a brave curgo
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: of cheese ready for market, And that the owl has
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: been sent to crick owl, saving what the maid's spun
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: in the family. Pray, let the whole house and furniture
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: have a thorough cleaning from top to bottom for the
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: honor of whales. And let Roger search into and make
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: a general clearance of the slit holes which the maids
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: have in secret, for I know they are much given
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: to sloth and uncleanness. I hope you have worked a
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: reformation among them, as I exhorted you in my life last,
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: and set their hearts upon better things than they can
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: find in junketting and catterwauling with the fellows of the country.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: As for Wynn Jenkins, she has undergone a perfect metamorphosis
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: and has become a new cretur from the ammunition of
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: Humphrey Clinker, our new footman, a pious young man who
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: has labored exceedingly, that she may bring forth fruits of repentance.
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: I make no doubt but he will take the same
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: pains with that pert hussy, Mary Jones and all of you,
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: and that he may have power given to penetrate and
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: instill His goodness even into your most inward parts. Is
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: the fervent prayer of your friend in the spirit tap
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: Bramble Scepter eighteen to doctor Lewis, Dear Lewis, liz mahego
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: is more paradoxical than ever dot Bell. Late gulp he
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: had of his native air seems to have blown fresh
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: spirit into all his polemical faculties. I congratulated him the
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: other day on the present flourishing state of his country,
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: observing that the Scots were now in a fair way
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: to wipe off the national reproach of poverty, and expressing
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: my satisfaction at the happy effects of the union so
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: conspicuous in the improvement of their agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and manners.
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: The Lieutenant, screwing up his features into a look of
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: descent and disgust, commented on my remarks to this effect,
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: those who reproach a nation for its poverty when it
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: is not owing to the profligacy or vice of the people,
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: deserved no answer. The Lacedaemonians were poorer than the Scots
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: when they took the lead among all the free states
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: of Greece, and were esteemed above them all for their
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: valor and their virtue. The most respectable heroes of ancient Rome,
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: such as Fabricius, Cincinnatus and Regulus, were poorer than the
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: poorest freeholder in Scotland, and there are at this day
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: individuals in North Britain, one of whom can produce more
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: gold and silver than the whole Republic of Rome could raise.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: At those times when her public virtue shone with unrivaled luster,
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: and poverty was so far from being a reproach that
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: it added fresh laurels to her fame, because it indicated
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: a noble contempt of wealth, which was proof against all
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: the arts of corruption. If poverty be a subject for reproach,
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: it follows that wealth is the object of esteem and veneration.
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: In that case, there are Jews and others in Amsterdam
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: and London, enriched by usury, peculation, and different species of
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: fraud and extortion, who are more estimable than the most
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: virtuous and illustrious members of the community, an absurdity which
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: no man in his senses will offer to maintain. That
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: riches are certainly no proof of merit. Nay, they are often,
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: if not most commonly acquired by persons of sordid minds
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: and mean talents, nor do they give any intrinsic worth
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: to the possessor, but on the contrary, tend to pervert
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: his understanding and render his morals more depraved. But granting
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: that poverty were really matter of reproach, it cannot be
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: justly imputed to Scotland. No country is poor that can
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: supply its inhabitants with the necessaries of life, and even
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: afford articles for exportation. Scotland is rich in natural advantages.
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: It produces every species of provision in abundance, vast herds
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: of cattle and flocks of sheep, with a great number
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: of horses, prodigious quantities of wool and flax, with plenty
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: of copse wood, and in some parts large forests of timber.
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: The earth is still more rich below than above the surface.
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: It yields inexhaustible stores of coal, free stone, marble, lead, iron, copper,
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: and silver, with some gold. The sea abounds with excellent
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: fish and salt to cure them for exportation, and there
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: are creeks and harbors round the whole kingdom for the
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: convenience and security of navigation. The face of the country
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: displays a surprising number of cities, towns, villas and villages
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: swarming with people, and there seems to be no one
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: of art, industry, government, and police. Such a kingdom can
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: never be called poor in any sense of the word,
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: though there may be many others more powerful and opulent.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: But the proper use of those advantages, and the present
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: prosperity of the Scots you seemed to derive from the
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: union of the two kingdoms, I said, I supposed he
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: would not deny that the appearance of the country was
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: much mended, that the people lived better, had more trade
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: and a greater quantity of money circulating since the union
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: than before. I may safely admit these premises, answer the Lieutenant,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: without subscribing to your inference. The difference you mention, I
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: should take to be the natural progress of improvement. Since
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: that period, other nations, such as the Swedes, the Danes,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: and in particular the French, have greatly increased in commerce
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: without any such cause assigned. Before the union, there was
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: a remarkable spirit of trade among the Scots, as appeared
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: in the case of their Darian company, in which they
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: had embarked no less than four hundred thousand pounds Sterling,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: and in the flourishing state of the maritime towns in
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: Fife and on the Eastern coast, enriched by their trade
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: with France, which failed in consequence of the Union. The
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: only solid commercial advantage reaped from that measure was the
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: privilege of trading to the English plantations. Yet, excepting Glasgow
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: and Dumfries, I don't know any other Scotch towns concerned
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: in that traffic. In other respects, I conceived the Scots
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: were losers by the Union. Dot They lost the independency
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: of their state, the greatest prop of national spirit. They
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: lost their parliament, and their courts of justice were subjected
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: to the revision and supremacy of an English tribunal. Softly,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: Captain cried, I you cannot be said to have lost
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: your own parliament while you are represented in that of
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: Great Britain. True, said he, with a sarcastic grin. In
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: debates of national competition, the sixteen peers and forty five
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: commoners of Scotland must make a formidable figure in the
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: scale against the whole English legislature. Be that as it may,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: I observed, while I had the honor to sit in
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: the Lower House, the Scotch members had always the majority
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: on their sideight I understand you, sir, said he. They
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: generally side with the majority. So much the worse for
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: their constituents. But even this evil is not the worst.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: They have sustained by the union. Their trade has been
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: saddled with grievous impositions, and every article of living severely
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: taxed to pay the interest of enormous debts contracted by
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: the English in support of measures and connections in which
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: the Scots had no interest nor concern. I begged he
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: would at least allow that by the Union the Scots
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: were admitted to all the privileges and immunities of English subjects,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: by which means multitudes of them were provided for in
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: the army and navy, and got fortunes in different parts
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: of England and its dominions. All these, said he, become
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: English subjects to all intents and purposes, and are in
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: a great measure lost to their mother country. The spirit
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: of rambling and adventure has been always peculiar to the
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: natives of Scotland. If they had not met with encouragement
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: in England, they would have served and settle as formerly
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: in other countries, such as Muscovie, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Germany, France,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: Piedmont and Italy, in all which nations their descendants continued
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: to flourish even at this day. By this time my
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: patients began to fail, and I exclaimed, for God's sake,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: what has England got by this union, which you say
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: has been so productive of misfortune to the Scots? Great
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: and manifold are the advantages which England derives from the union,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: said lis Mahego in a solemn tone. First and foremost
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: the settlement of the Protestant succession, a point which the
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: English ministry drove with such eagerness that no stone was
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: left unturned to cajole and bribe a few leading men
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: to cram the union down the throats of the Scottish nation,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: who were surprisingly averse to the expedient. They gained by
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: it a considerable addition of territory, extending their dominion to
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: the sea on all sides of the island, thereby shutting
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: up all back doors against the enterprises of their enemies.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: They got an accession of above a million of useful subjects,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: constituting a never failing nursery of seamen, soldiers, laborers, and mechanics,
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: a most valuable acquisition to a trading country exposed to
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: foreign wars, and obliged to maintain a number of settlements
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: in all the four quarters of the globe. In the
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: course of seven years during the Last War, Scotland furnished
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: the English Army and Navy with seventy thousand men, over
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: and above those who migrated to their colonies or mingled
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: with them at home in the civil departments of life.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: This was a very considerable and seasonable supply to a
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: nation whose people had been for many years decreasing in number,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: and whose lands and manufactures were actually suffering for want
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: of hands. I need not remind you of the hackneyed
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: maxim that to a nation in such circumstances a supply
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: of industrious people is a supply of wealth. Nor repeat
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: an observation which is now received as an eternal truth
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: even among the English themselves, that the Scots who settle
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: in South Britain are remarkably sober, orderly and industrious. I
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: allowed the truth of this remark, adding that by their industry,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: economy and circumspection, many of them in England, as well
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: as in her colonies, amassed large fortunes with which they
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: returned to their own country, and this was so much
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: lost to South Britain. Doc give me leave, sir, said he,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: to assure you that in your fact you are mistaken,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: and in your deduction erroneous. Not one in two hundred
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: that leave Scotland ever returns to settle in his own country.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: And the few that do return carry thither nothing that
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: can possibly diminish the stock of South Britain, for none
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: of their treasure stagnates. In Scotland. There is a continual circulation,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: like that of the blood in the human body. And
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: England is the heart to which all the streams which
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: it distributes are refunded and returned. Nay, in consequence of
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: that luxury which our connection with England hath greatly encouraged,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: if not introduced, all the produce of our lands, and
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: all the profits of our trade are engrossed by the
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: natives of South Britain. For you will find that the
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: exchange between the two kingdoms is always against Scotland, and
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: that she retains neither gold nor silver sufficient for her
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: own circulation. Dot the Scots not content with their own
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: manufactures and produce, which would very well answer all necessary
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: occasions seem to vie with each other in purchasing superfluities
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: from England, such as broadcloth, velvets, stuffs, silks, lace, furs, jewels,
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: furniture of all sorts, sugar, rum, tea, chocolate and coffee.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: In a word, not only every mode of the most
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: extravagant luxury, but even many articles of convenience which they
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: might find as good and much cheaper in their own country.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: For all these particulars, I conceive England may touch about
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: one million sterling a year dot. I don't pretend to
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: make an exact calculation. Perhaps it may be something less,
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: and perhaps a great deal more. Then anal revenue arising
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: from all the private estates of Scotland cannot fall short
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: of a million sterling, and I should imagine their trade
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: will amount to as much more. Dot. I know the
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: linen manufacture alone returns near half a million, exclusive of
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: the home consumption of that article. DOT. If therefore North
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: Britain pays a balance of a million annually to England,
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: I insist upon it that country is more valuable to
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: her in the way of commerce than any colony in
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: her possession. Over and above the other advantages which I
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: have specified. Therefore, they are no friends either to England
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: or to truth who affect to appreciate the northern part
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: of the United Kingdom. I must own. I was at
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: first a little nettled to find myself schooled in so
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: many particulars. Dot though I did not receive all his
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: assertions as gospel, I was not prepared to refute them,
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: and I cannot help now acquiescing in his remarks so
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: far as to think that the contempt for Scotland, which
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: prevails too much on this side the Tweed, is founded
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: on prejudice and error. After some recollection, well Captain said,
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: I you have argued stoutly for the importance of your
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: own country. For my part, I have such a regard
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: for our fellow subjects of North Britain that I shall
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: be glad to see the day when your peasants can
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: afford to give all their oats to their cattle, hogs
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: and poultry, and indulged themselves with good wheaten loaves instead
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: of such poor, unpalatable and inflammatory diet. Here again I
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: brought myself into a premium ire with the disputative Caledonian.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: He said he hoped he should never see the common
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: people lifted out of that sphere for which they were
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: intended by nature and the course of things, that they
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: might have some reason to complain of their bread if
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: it were mixed like that of Norway, with saw dust
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: and fish bones. But that oatmeal was he apprehended as
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: nourishing in salutary as wheat flour, and the Scots in
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: general thought it at least as savory dot He affirmed
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: that a mouse, which, in the article of self preservation,
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: might be supposed to act from infallible instinct, would always
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: prefer oats to wheat, as appeared from experience. For in
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: a place where there was a parcel of each, that
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: animal has never begun to feed upon the latter, till
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: all the oats were consumed for their nutritive quality. He
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: appealed to the hail robust constitutions of the people who
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: lived chiefly upon oatmeal, and instead of being inflammatory, he
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: asserted that it was a cooling, subacid, balsamic and mucilaginous,
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: insomuch that in all inflammatory distempers recourse was had to water,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: gruel and flummery made of oatmeal. At least, said I
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: give me leave to wish them such a degree of
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: commerce as may enable them to follow their own inclinations.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: Heaven forbid, cried this philosopher. Woe be to that nation
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: where the multitude is at liberty to follow their own inclinations.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: Commerce is undoubtedly a blessing while restrained within its proper channels.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: But a glod of wealth brings along with it a
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: glut of evils. It brings false taste, false appetite, false wants, profusion, venality,
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: contempt of order, engendering a spirit of licentiousness, insolence, and
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: faction that keeps the community in continual ferment, and in
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: time destroys all the distinctions of civil society, so that
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: universal anarchy and uproar must ensue. Will any sensible man
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: affirm that the national advantages of opulence are to be
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: sought on these terms? No sure, But I am one
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: of those who think that, by proper regulations, commerce may
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: produce every national benefit without the allay of such concomitant evils.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: So much for the dogmata of my friend Liz Mahego,
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: whom I described the more circumstantially, as I firmly believe
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: he will set up his rest in monmiture yesterday while
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: I was alone with him. He asked, in some confusion
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: if I should have any objection to the success of
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: a gentleman and a soldier, provided he should be so
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: fortunate as to engage my sister's affection. I answered, without hesitation,
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: that my sister was old enough to judge for herself,
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: and that I should be very far from disapproving any
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: resolution she might take in his favor. Dot his eyes
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: sparkled at this declaration. He declared he should think himself
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: the happiest man on earth to be connected with my family,
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: and that he should never be weary of giving me
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: proofs of his gratitude and attachment. I suppose Tabby and
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: he are already agreed, in which case we shall have
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: a wedding at Brambleton Hall, and you shall give away
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: the bride. Dot. It is the least thing you can
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: do by way of atonement for your former cruelty to
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: that poor love sick maiden who has been so long
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: a thorn in the side of yours. Matt bramble September twentieth.
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  Speaker 1: We have been at Buxton, but as I did not
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: much relish either the company or the accommodations, and had
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: no occasion for the water. We stayed but two nights
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: in the place to Sir Watkin Phillips, Bart of Jesus College,
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: ox On deer w A t adventures begin to thicken
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: as we advanced to the southward. Liz Mahego has now
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: professed himself the admirer of our aunt, and carries on
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: his addresses under the sanction of her brother's approbation, so
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: that we shall certainly have a wedding by Christmas. I
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: should be glad you was present at the nuptials to
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: help me throw the stocking and perform other ceremonies peculiar
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: to that occasion. I am sure it will be productive
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: of some diversion, and truly it would be worth your
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: while to come across the country on purpose to see
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: two such original figures in bed together with their lace
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: night caps, he the emblem of good cheer, and she
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: the picture of good nature. All this agreeable prospect was
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: clouded and had well nigh vanished entirely in consequence of
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: a late misunderstanding between the future brothers in law, which however,
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: is now happily removed. A few days ago my uncle
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: and I going to visit a relation met with Lord
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  Speaker 1: Oxmington at his house, who asked us to dine with
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: him next day, and we accepted the invitation accordingly, leaving
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: our women under the care of Captain lis mahego at
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: the inn where we had lodged the preceding night, in
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  Speaker 1: a little town about a mile from his lordship's dwelling.
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  Speaker 1: We went at the hour appointed, and had a fashionable meal,
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  Speaker 1: served up with much ostentation to a company of about
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  Speaker 1: a dozen persons, none of whom he had ever seen before.
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  Speaker 1: Dot His lordship is much more remarkable for his pride
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  Speaker 1: and caprice than for his hospitality and understanding, And indeed
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: it appeared that he considered his guests merely as objects
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  Speaker 1: to shine upon, so as to reflect the luster of
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  Speaker 1: his own magnificence. There was much state, but no courtesy,
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  Speaker 1: and a great deal of compliment without any conversation. Before
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: the desert was removed, our noble entertainer proposed three general toasts, then,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: calling for a glass of wine, and bowing all round,
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: wished us a good afternoon. This was the signal for
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: the company to break up, and they obeyed it immediately,
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: all except our squire, who was greatly shocked at the
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: manner of this dismission, He changed countenance, bit his lip
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: in silence, but still kept his seat, so that his
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: lordship found himself obliged to give us another hint by
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: saying he should be glad to see us another time.
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  Speaker 1: There is no time like the present, cried mister Bramble.
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  Speaker 1: Your lordship has not yet drank a bumper to the
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: best in Christendom. I'll drink no more bumpers to day,
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: answered our landlord, and I am sorry to see you
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: have drank too many. Dot order the gentleman's carriage to
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: the gate, so saying, he rose and retired abruptly, our
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: squire starting up at the same time, laying his hand
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: upon his sword and eyeing him with a most ferocious aspect.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: The master having vanished in this manner, our uncle bad
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: one of the servants to see what was to pay,
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: and the fellow answering, this is no inn, I cry
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: you mercy, cried the other. I perceive it is not.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: If it were, the landlord would be more civil. There's
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: a guinea, however, take it and tell your lord that
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: I shall not leave the country till I have had
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: the opportunity to thank him in person. For his politeness
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: and hospitality. We then walked down stairs through a double
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: range of lackeys, and getting into the chaise, proceeded homewards.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: Perceiving that the Squire much ruffled, I ventured to disapprove
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: of his resentment, observing that as Lord Oxmington was well
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: known to have his brain very ill timbered, a sensible
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: man should rather laugh than be angry at his ridiculous
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: want of breeding. Theth mister Bramble took umbrage at my
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: presuming to be wiser than he upon this occasion, and
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: told me that as he had always thought for himself
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: in every occurrence in life, he would still use the
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: same privilege with my good leave. When we returned to
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: our inn, he closeted lis mahego, and, having explained his grievance,
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: desired that gentlemen to go and demand satisfaction of Lord
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: Oxmington in his name. Dat The Lieutenant charged himself with
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: this commission, and immediately set out a horseback for his
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: lordship's house, attended at his own request by my man
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: Archie MacAlpine, who had been used to military service. And truly,
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: if MacAlpine had been mounted upon an ass this couple
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: might have passed for the night of La Mancha and
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: his squire Panza. It was not till after some demur
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: that lis Mahego obtained a private audience at which he
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: formerly defied his lordship to single combat in the name
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: of mister Bramble, and desired him to appoint the time
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: and place. Lord Oxmington was so confounded at this unexpected
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: message that he could not for some time make any
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: articulate reply, but stood staring at the Lieutenant with manifest
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: marks of perturbation. At length, ringing a bell with great vehemence,
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: he exclaimed, what a commoner sent a challenge to a
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: peer of the realm? Privilege? Privilege? Here's a person brings
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: me a challenge from the Welshman that dined at my table,
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: an impudent fellow. Dot my wine is not yet out
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: of his head. The whole house was immediately in commotion.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: Dot MacAlpine made a soldierly retreat with two horses, but
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: the captain was suddenly surrounded and disarmed by the footmen,
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: whom a French valet de chamber headed. In this exploit,
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: his sword was passed through a close stool, and his
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: person through the horse pond. In this plight. He returned
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: to the inn half mad with his disgrace. So violent
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: was the rage of his indignation that he mistook its objecta.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: He wanted to quarrel with mister Bramble. He said he
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: had been dishonored on his account, and he looked for
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: reparation at his hands. To my uncle's back was up
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: in a moment, and he desired him to explain his pretensions. Dot.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: Either compel Lord Oxmington to give me satisfaction, cried he,
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: or give it me in your own person. The latter
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: part of the alternative is the most easy and expeditious,
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: replied that, the squire starting up. If you are disposed
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: for a walk, I'll attend you this moment. Here They
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: were interrupted by missus Tabby, who had overheard all that
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: past Dot. She now burst into the room and running
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: betwixt them in great agitation. Is this your regard for me?
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: Said she to the lieutenant, to seek the life of
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: my brother. Liz Mahego, who seemed to grow cool as
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: my uncle grew hot, assured her he had a very
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: great respect for mister Bramble, but he had still more
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: for his own honor, which had suffered pollution, but if
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: that could be once purified, he should have no further
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: cause of dissatisfaction. The squire said, he should have thought
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: it incumbent upon him to vindicate the lieutenant's honor, But
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: as he had now carved for himself, he might swallow
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: and digest it as well as he could. In a word,
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: what betwixt the mediation of missus Tabitha, the recollection of
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: the captain, who perceived he had gone too far, and
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: the remonstrances of your humble servant, who joined them at
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: this juncture, Those two originals were perfectly reconciled. And then
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: we proceeded to deliberate upon the means of taking vengeance
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: for the insults they had received from the petulant peer.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: For until that aims should be accomplished, mister Bramble swore
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: with great emphasis that he would not leave thee where
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: we now lodged, even if he should pass his Christmas
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: on the spot. In consequence of our deliberations, we next day,
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: in the forenoon proceeded in a body to his lordship's house,
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: all of us with our servants, including the coachman, mounted
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: a horseback with our pistols loaded and ready prime dot.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: Thus prepared for action, we paraded solemnly and slowly before
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: his Lordship's gate, which we passed three times, in such
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: a manner that he could not but see us and
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: suspect the cause of our appearance. DOT. After dinner we
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: returned and performed the same cavalcade, which was again repeated
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: the morning following, But we had no occasion to persist
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: in these maneuvers. About noon we were visited by the
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: gentleman at whose house we had first seen Lord Oxmington DOT.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: He now came to make apologies in the name of
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: his Lordship, who declared he had no intention to give
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: offense to my uncle in practicing what had been always
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: the custom of his house, and that as for the
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: indignities which had been put upon the art officer, they
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: were offered without his Lordship's knowledge, at the instigation of
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: his Valet de chamber Dot. If that be the case,
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: said my uncle, in a peremptory tone, I shall be
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: contented with Lord Oxmington's personal excuses, and I hope my
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: friend will be satisfied with his Lordship's turning that insolent
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: rascal out of his service. Sir cried liz mahego, I
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: must insist upon taking personal vengeance for the personal injuries
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: I have sustained. After some debate, the affair was adjusted
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: in this manner. Dot his Lordship, meeting us at our
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: friend's house, declared he was sorry for what had happened,
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: and that he had no intention to give umbrage. Dot,
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: though Valet de Chamber asked pardon of the Lieutenant upon
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: his knees, when lis Mahego, to the astonishment of all present,
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: gave him a violent kick on the face, which laid
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: him on his back, exclaiming in a furious tone, we
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: j e t e pardon Jen's fautray. Such was the
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: fortunate issue of this perilous adventure, which threatened abundance of
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: vexation to our family. For the Squire is one of
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: those who will sacrifice both life and fortune rather than
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: leave what they conceive to be the least speck or
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: blemish upon their honor and reputation. His lordship had no
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: sooner pronounced his apology with a very bad grace than
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: he went away in some disorder, and I dare say
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: he will never invite another welchman to his table. We
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: forthwith quitted the field of this achievement in order to
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: prosecute our journey. But we follow no determinate course. We
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: make small deviations to see the remarkable towns, villas and
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: curiosities on each side of our route, so that we
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: advance by slow steps towards the borders of Monmouthshire. But
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: in the midst of these irregular motions there is no
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: aberration nor eccentricity in that affection with which I am
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: dear wat yours always. J. Melford, September twenty eighth to
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: Doctor Lewis, dear Dick, At what time of life may
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: a man think himself exempted from the necessity of sacrificing
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: his repose to the punctilios of a case temptable world.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: I have been engaged in a ridiculous adventure, which I
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: shall recount at meeting, and this I hope will not
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: be much longer delayed, as we have now performed almost
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: all our visits and seen everything that I think has
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: any right to retard us in our journey homewards A
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: few days ago, understanding by accident that my old friend
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: Baynard was in the country, I would not pass so
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: near his habitation without paying him a visit, though our
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: correspondence had been interrupted for a long course of years.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: I felt myself very sensibly affected by the idea of
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: our past intimacy as we approached the place where we
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: had spent so many happy days together. But when we
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: arrived at the house, I could not recognize any one
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: of those objects which had been so deeply impressed upon
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: my remembrance. The tall oaks that shaded the avenue had
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: been cut down, and the iron gates at the end
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: of it removed, together with the high wall that surrounded
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: the courtyard. The house itself, which was formerly a convent
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: of Cistercian monks, hadventulnerable appearance, and along the front that
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: looked into the garden was a stone gallery, which afforded
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: me many an agreeable walk when I was disposed to
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: be contemplative. Now the old front is covered with a
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: screen of modern architecture, so that all without his Grecian
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: and all within Gothic. As for the garden, which was
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: well stocked with the best fruit which England could produce,
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: there is not now the least vestige remaining of trees,
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: walls or hedges. Nothing appears but a naked circus of
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: loose sand with a dry basin and a leaden tritent
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: in the middle. You must know that Baynard, at his
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: father's death had a clear estate of fifteen hundred pounds
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: a year, and was in other respects extremely well qualified
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: to make a respectable figure in the commonwealth. But what
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: with some excesses of youth and the expense of a
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: contested election, he in a few years found himself encumbered
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: with a debt of ten thousand pounds, which he resolved
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: to discharge by means of a prudent marriage. He accordingly
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: married a miss Thompson, whose fortune amounted to double the
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: sum that he owed. She was the daughter of a
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: citizen who had failed in trade, but her fortune came
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: by an uncle who died in the East Indies. Her
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: own parents being dead, she lived with a maiden aunt,
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: who had superintended her education, and in all appearance was
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: well enough qualified for the usual purposes of the married state.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: Her virtues, however, stood rather upon a negative than a
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: positive foundation. She was neither proud, insolent, nor capricious, nor
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: given to scandal, nor addicted to gaming, nor inclined to gallantry.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: She could read and write, and dance, and sing, and
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: play upon the harpsichord, and smatter French, and take a
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: hand at whist and omber. But even these accomplishments she
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: possessed by halves. She excelled in nothing. Her conversation was flat,
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: her style mean, and her expression embarrassed. In a word,
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: her character was totally insipid. Her person was not disagreeable,
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: but there was nothing ungraceful in her address, nor engaging
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: in her manners. And she was so ill qualified to
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: do the honors of the house that when she sat
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: at the head of the table, one was always looking
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: for the mistress of the family in some other place.
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: Baynard had flattered himself that it would be no difficult
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: matter to mold such a subject after his own fashion,
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: and that she would cheerfully enter into his views, which
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: were wholly turned to domestic happiness. He proposed to reside
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: always in the country of which he was fond, to
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: a degree of enthusiasm, to cultivate his estate, which was
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: very improvable, to enjoy the exercise of rural diversions, to
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: maintain an intimacy of correspondence with some friends that were
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: settled in his neighborhood, To keep a comfortable house without
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: suffering his expense to exceed the limits of his income,
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: and to find pleasure and employ merit for his wife
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: in the management and avocations of her own family. This, however,
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: was a visionary scheme which he never was able to realize.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: His wife was as ignorant as a new born babe
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: of everything that really to the conduct of a family,
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: and she had no idea of a country life. Her
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: understanding did not reach so far as to comprehend the
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: first principles of discretion, and indeed, if her capacity had
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: been better than it was, her natural indolence would not
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: have permitted her to abandon a certain routine to which
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: she had been habituated. She had not taste enough to
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: relish any rational enjoyment. But her ruling passion was vanity,
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: not that species which arises from self conceit of superior accomplishments,
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: but that which is of a bastard and idiot nature,
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: excited by shehe and ostentation, which implies not even the
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: least consciousness of any personal merit. The nuptial peal of
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: noise and nonsense being wrung out in all the usual changes.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: Mister Baynard thought it high time to make her acquainted
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: with the particulars of the plan which he had projected.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: He told her that his fortune, though sufficient to afford
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: all the comforts of life, was not ample enough to
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: command all the superfluities of pomp and pageantry, which indeed
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: were equally absurd and entire tolerable. He therefore hoped she
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: would have no objection to their leaving London in the spring,
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: when he would take the opportunity to dismiss some unnecessary
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: domestics whom he had hired for the occasion of their marriage.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: She heard him in silence, and after some pause, so
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: said she, I am to be buried in the country.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: He was so confounded at this reply that he could
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: not speak for some minutes. At length, he told her
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: he was much mortified to find he had proposed anything
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: that was disagreeable to her ideas. I am sure, added he,
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: I meant nothing more than to lay down a comfortable
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: plan of living within the bounds of our fortune, which
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: is but moderate, sir, said she, you are the best
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: judge of your own affairs. My fortune, I know, does
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: not exceed twenty thousand pounds. Yet even with that pittance
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: I might have had a husband, who would not have
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: begrudged me a house in London. Good God, my dear
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: cried poor Baynard, in the utmost agitation. You don't think
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: me so sordid. I only hinted what I thought, But
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: I don't pretend to impose. Yes, sir, resume the lady.
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: It is your prerogative to command and my duty to obey.
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: So saying, she burst into tears and retired to her chamber,
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: where she was joined by her aunt. He endeavored to
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: recollect himself and act with vigor of mind on this occasion,
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: but was betrayed by the tenderness of his nature, which
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: was the greatest defect of his constitution. He found the
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: aunt in tears and the niece in a fit which
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: held her the best part of eight hours, at the
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: expiration of which she began to talk incoherently about death
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: and her dear husband, who had sat by her all
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: this time, and now pressed her hand to his lips
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: in a transport of grief and penitence for the offense
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: he had given. From thenceforward, he carefully avoided mentioning the country,
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: and they continued to be sucked deeper and deeper into
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: the vortex of extravagance and dissipation, leading what is called
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: a fashionable life in town. About the latter end of July, however,
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: Missus Baynard, in order to exhibit a proof of conjugal obedience,
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: desired of her own accord that they might pay a
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: visit to his country house. As there was no company
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: left in London. He would have excused himself from this excursion,
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: which was no part of the economical plan he had proposed,
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: but she insisted upon making this sacrifice to his taste
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: and prejudices, and away they went, with such an equipage
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: as astonished the whole country. All that remained of the
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: season was engrossed by receiving and returning visits in the neighborhood.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: And in this intercourse it was discovered that Sir John
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: Chickwell had a house steward and one footman in livery
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: more than the compliment of mister Baynard's household. This remark
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: was made by the aunt at table, and assented to
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: buy the husband, who observed that Sir John Chickwell might
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: very well afford to keep more servants than were found
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: in the family of a man who had not half
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: his fortune missus Baynard ate no supper that evening, but
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: was seized with a violent fit, which completed her triumph
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: over the spirit of her consort. The two supernumerary servants
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: were added, the family plate was sold for old silver,
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: and a new service procured. Fashionable furniture was provided, and
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: the whole house turned topsy turvy. At their return to
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: London in the beginning of winter, he with a heavy heart,
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: communicated these particulars to me in confidence. Before his marriage,
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: he had introduced me to the lady as his particular friend,
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: and I now offered in that character to lay before
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: her the necessity of reforming her economy if she had
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: any regard to the interest of her own family or
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: complaisance for the inclinations of her husband. But Baynard declined
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: my offer on the supposition that his wife's nerves were
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: too delicate to bear expostulation, and that it would only
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: serve to overwhelm her with such distress as would make
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: himself miserable. Baynard is a man of spirit, and had
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: she proved a termagant, he would have known how to
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: deal with her. But either by accident or instinct, she
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: fastened upon the weak side of his soul, and held
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: it so fast that he has been in subjection ever since.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: I afterwards advised him to carry her abroad to France
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: or Italy, where he might gratify her vanity for half
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: the expense it cost him in England, and this advice
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: he followed accordingly. She was agreeably flattered with the idea
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: of seeing and knowing foreign parts and foreign fashions, of
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: being presented to sovereigns, and living familiarly with princes. She
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: forthwith seized the hint which I had thrown out on purpose,
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: and even pressed mister Baynard to hasten his departure, so
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: that in a few weeks they crossed the sea to
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: France with a moderate train, still including the aunt who
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: was her bosom counselor, and abetted her in all her
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: oppositions to her husband's will. Since that period, I have
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: had little or no opportunity to renew our former correspondents.
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: All that I knew of his transactions amounted to no
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: more than that, after an absence of two years, they
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: returned so little improved in economy that they launched out
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: into new oceans of extravagance, which at length obliged him
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: to mortgage his estate. By this time she had bore
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: him three children, of which the last only survives, a
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: puny boy of twelve or thirteen, who will be ruined
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: in his education by the indulgence of his mother. As
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: for Baynard, neither his own good sense, nor the dread
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: of indigence, nor the consideration of his children, has been
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: of force sufficient to stimulate him into the resolution of
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: breaking at once the shameful spell by which he seems
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: enchanted with a taste capable of the most refined enjoyment,
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: a heart glowing with all the warmth of friendship and humanity,
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: and a disposition strongly turned to the more rational pleasures
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: of a retired and country life. He is hurried about
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: in a perpetual tumult amidst a mob of beings pleased
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: with rattles, baubles, and geugos, so void of sense and
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: distinction that even the most acute philosopher would find it
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: a very hard task to discover for what wise purpose
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: of providence they were created. Friendship is not to be found,
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: nor can the amusements for which his size be enjoyed.
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: Within the rotation of absurdity to which he is doomed
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: for life. He has long resigned all views of improving
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: his fortune by management and attention to the other exercise
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: of husbandry, in which he delighted, and as to domestic happiness,
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: not the least glimpse of hope remains to amuse his imagination.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: Thus blasted in all his prospects, he could not fail
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: to be overwhelmed with melancholy and chagrin, which have preyed
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: upon his health and spirits in such a manner that
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: he is now threatened with a consumption. I have given
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: you a sketch of the man whom the other day
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: I went to visit. At the gate. We found a
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: great number of powdered lackeys, but no civility. After we
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: had sat a considerable time in the coach, we were
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: told that mister Baynard had rode out, and that his
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: lady was dressing. But we were introduced to a parlor
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: so very fine and delicate that in all appearance it
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: was designed to be seen, only not inhabited. The chairs
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: and couches were carved gilt and covered with rich damask,
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: so smooth and slick that they looked as if they
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: had never been sat upon. There was no carpet upon
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: the floor, but the boards were rubbed and waxed in
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: such a manner that we could not walk, but were
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: obliged to slide along them. And as for the stove,
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: it was too bright and polished to be polluted with
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: sea coal or stained by the smoke of any gross
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: material fire. When we had remained above half an hour's
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: sacrificing to the inhospitable powers in the temple of cold reception,
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: my friend Baynard arrived, and, understanding we were in the house,
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: made his appearance so meager, yellow and dejected that I
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: really should not have known him had I met with
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: him in any other place. Running up to me with
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: great eagerness, he strained me in his embrace, and his
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: heart was so full that for some minutes he could
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: not speak. Having saluted us all round, he perceived our
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: uncomfortable situation, and, conducting us into another apartment which had
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: fire in the chimney, called for chocolate. Then withdrawing, he
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: returned with a compliment from his wife, and in the
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: meantime presented his son Harry, a shambling, blear eyed boy
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: in the habit of a hussar, very rude, forward and impertinent.
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: His father would have sent him to a boarding school,
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: but his Mamma and aunt would not hear of his
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: lying out of the house, so that there was a
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: clergyman engaged as his tutor in the family. As it
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: was but just turned of twelve, and the whole house
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: was in commotion to prepare a formal entertainment. I foresaw
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: it would be late before we dined, and proposed a
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: walk to mister Baynard, that we might converse together freely
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: in the course of this perambulation. When I expressed some
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: surprise that he had returned so soon from Italy, he
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: gave me to understand that his going abroad had not
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: at all answered the purpose for which he left England.
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: That although the expense of living was not so great
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: in Italy as at home, respect being had to the
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: same rank of life in both countries, it had been
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: found necessary for him to lift himself above his usual style,
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: that he might be on some footing with the counts,
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: marquesses and cavaliers with whom he kept company. He was
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: obliged to hire a great number of servants, to take
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: off a great variety of rich clothes, and to keep
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: a sumptuous table for the fashionable scoriconi of the country, who,
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: without a consideration of this kind, would not have paid
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: any attention to an untitled foreigner, let his family or
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: fortune be ever so respectable. Besides, Missus Baynard was continually
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: surrounded by a train of expensive loungers under the denominations
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: of language masters, musicians, painters and ciceroni, and had actually
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: fallen into the disease of buying pictures and antiques upon
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: her own judgment, which was far from being infallible. At
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: length she met with an affront which gave her disgust
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: to Italy and drove her back to England with some
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: precipitation by means of frequenting the Duchess of b Edford
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: s Conbersozzioni. While her grace was at Rome, Missus Baynard
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: became acquainted with all the fashionable people of that city,
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: and was admitted to their assemblies without scruple. Thus favored,
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: she conceived too great an idea of her own importance,
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: and when the Duchess left Rome, resolved to have a
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: conversazione that should leave the Romans no room to regret
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: her grace's departure. She provided hands for a musical entertainment,
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: and sent Biglieti of invitation to every person of distinction,
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: But not one Roman of the female sex appeared at
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: her assembly. She was that night seized with a violent fit,
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: and kept her bed three days, at the expiration of
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: which she declared that the air of Italy would be
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: the ruin of her constitution. In order to prevent this catastrophe,
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: she was speedily removed to Geneva, from whence they returned
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: to England by the way of Lions and Paris. By
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: the time they arrived at Calais, she had purchased such
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: a quantity of silks, stuffs, and laces that it was
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: necessary to hire a vessel to smuggle them over, and
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: this vessel was taken by a custom house cutter, so
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: that they lost the whole cargo, which had cost them
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: above eight hundred pounds. It now appears that her travels
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: had produced no effect upon her, but that of making
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: her more expensive and fantastic than ever. She affected to
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: lead the fashion, not only in point of female dress,
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: but in every article of tis taste and connoisseurship. She
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: made a drawing of the new facade to the house
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: in the country. She pulled up the trees and pulled
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 1: down the walls of the garden so as to let
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: in the easterly wind, which mister Baynard's ancestors had been
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: at great pains to exclude. To shew her taste in
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: laying out ground, she seized into her own hand a
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: farm of two hundred acres about a mile from the house,
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: which she parceled out into walks and shrubberies, having a
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: great basin in the middle, into which she poured a
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: whole stream that turned two mills and afforded the best
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: trout in the country. The bottom of the basin, however,
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: was so ill secured that it would not hold the water,
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: which strained through the earth, and made a bog of
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: the whole plantation. In a word, the ground, which formerly
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: paid him one hundred and fifty pounds a year, now
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: cost him two hundred pounds a year to keep it
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: in tolerable order. Over and above the first expense of trees, shrubs, flowers,
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: turf and gravel, there was not an inch of garden
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: ground left about the house, nor a tree that produced
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: fruit of any kind. Nor did he raise a truss
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: of hay or a bushel of oats for his horses,
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: nor had he a single cow to afford milk for
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: his tea. Far less did he ever dream of feeding
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: his own mutton, pigs and poultry. Every article of housekeeping,
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: even the most inconsiderable, was brought from the next market town,
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: at the distance of five miles, and thither they sent
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: a courier every morning to fetch hot rolls for breakfast.
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: In short, Baynard fairly owned that he spent double his income,
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: and that in a few years he should be obliged
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: to sell his estate for the payment of his creditors.
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: He said that his wife had such delicate nerves and
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: such imbecility of spirit, that she could neither bear remonstrance,
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: be it ever so gentle, nor practice any scheme of retrenchment,
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: even if she perceived the necessity of such a measure.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: He had therefore ceased struggling against the stream, and endeavored
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: to reconcile himself to ruin, by reflecting that his child
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: at least would inherit his mother's fortune, which was secured
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: to him by the contract of marriage. The detail which
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: he gave me of his affairs filled me at once
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: with grief and indignation. I inveighed bitterly against the indiscretion
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: of his wife, and reproached him with his unmanly acquiescence
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: under the absurd tyranny which she exerted. I exhorted him
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: to recollect his resolution and make one effectual effort to
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: disengage himself from a thraldom equally shameful and pernicious. I
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: offered him all the assistance in my power I undertook
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: to regulate his affairs, and even to bring about a
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: reformation in his family, if he would only authorize me
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: to execute the plan I should form for his advantage.
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: I was so affected by the subject that I could
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: not help mingling tears with my remonstrances. And Baynard was
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: so penetrated with these marks of my affection that he
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: lost all power of utterance. He pressed me to his
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: breast with great emotion, and wept in silence. At length,
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: he exclaimed, friendship is undoubtedly the most precious balm of life.
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: Your words, dear Brahm, having a great measure, recalled me
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 1: from an abyss of despondence in which I have been
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: long overwhelmed. I will, upon honor, make you acquainted with
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: a distinct state of my affairs, and as far as
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: I am able to go, will follow the course you prescribe.
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: But there are certain lengths which my nature. The truth is,
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: there are tender connections of which a bachelor has no idea.
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: Shall I own my weakness? I cannot bear the thoughts
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 1: of making that woman uneasy. And yet cried I, she
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: has seen you unhappy for a series of years, unhappy
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: from her misconduct, without ever shewing the least inclination to
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: alleviate your distress. Nevertheless, said he, I am persuaded. She
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 1: loves me with the most warm affection. But these are
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: incongruities in the composition of the human mind, which I
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: hold to be inexplicable. I was shocked at his infatuation
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: and changed the subject after we had agreed to maintain
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: a close correspondence for the future. He then gave me
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: to understand that he had two neighbors who, like himself,
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: were driven by their wives at full speed in the
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: high road to bankruptcy. In Ruin. All the three husbands
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: were of dispositions very different from each other, and according
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: to this variation, their consorts were admirably suited to the
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: purpose of keeping them all three. In subjection, the views
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: of the ladies were exactly the same. They vied in grandeur,
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: that is, in ostentation, with the wife of Sir Charles Chickwell,
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: who had four times their fortune, and she again piqued
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 1: herself upon making an equal figure with a neighboring peeress
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 1: whose revenue trebled her own. Here, then, was the fable
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: of the frog and the ox realized in four different
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: instances within the same county, one large fortune and three
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: moderate estates in a fair way of being burst by
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: the inflation of female vanity. And in three of these instances,
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: three different forms of female tyranny were exercised. Mister Baynard
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: was subjugated by practicing upon the tenderness of his nature.
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: Mister milk Sand, being of a timorous disposition, truckled to
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: the insolence of a termagant. Mister Sowerby, who was of
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 1: a temper neither to be moved by fits nor driven
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 1: by menaces, had the fortune to be fitted with a
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 1: helpmate who assailed him with the weapons of irony and satire,
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: sometimes sneering in the way of compliment, sometimes throwing out
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: sarcastic comparisons, implying reproaches upon his want of taste, spirit,
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: and generosity, by which means she stimulated his passions from
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 1: one act of extravagance to another, just as the circumstances
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 1: of her vanity required. All these three ladies have at
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: this time the same number of horses, carriages, and servants
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: in and out of livery, the same variety of dress,
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: the same quantity of plate in china, the like ornaments
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: in furniture, and in their entertainments. They endeavor to exceed
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: one another in the variety, delicacy, and expense of their dishes.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: I believe it will be found upon inquiry that nineteen
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: out of twenty who are ruined by extravagance fall a
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: sacrifice to the ridiculous pride and vanity of silly women,
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: whose parts are held in contempt by the very men
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: whom they pillage and enslave. Thank Heaven, Dick, that among
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: all the follies and weaknesses of human nature, I have
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 1: not yet fallen into that of matrimony. After Baynard and
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: I had discussed all these matters at leisure, we returned
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 1: towards the house and met Jerry with our two women,
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: who had come forth to take the air, as the
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: lady of the mansion had not yet made her appearance.
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: In short, Missus Baynard did not produce herself till about
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: a quarter of an hour before dinner was upon the table.
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 1: Then her husband brought her into the parlor, accompanied by
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: her aunt and son, and she received us with a
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: coldness of reserve sufficient to freeze the very soul of hospitality.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: Though she knew I had been the intimate friend of
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: her husband, and had often seen me with him in London,
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: she shewed no marks of recognition or regard. When I
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: addressed myself to her in the most friendly terms of salutation,
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: she did not even express the common compliment of I
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: am glad to see you, or I hope you have
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: enjoyed your health since we had the pleasure of seeing you,
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 1: or some such words, of course, nor did she once
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: open her mouth in the way of welcome to my
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: sister and my niece, but sat in silence, like a
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: statue with an aspect of insensibility. Her aunt, the model
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: upon which she had been formed, was indeed the very
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: essence of insipid formality. But the boy was very pert
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: and impudent, and prayed without ceasing. At dinner, the lady
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: maintained the same ungracious indifference, never speaking but in whispers
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: to her aunt. And as to the repast, it was
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: made up of a parcel of kickshaws contrived by a
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: French cook, without one substantial article adapted to the satisfaction
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 1: of an English appetite. The pottage was little better than
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: bread soaked in dish washings, lukewarm, the ragous looked as
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: if they had been once eaten and half digested. The
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: fricassees were involved in a nasty yellow poultice, and the
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: rotees were scorched and stinking. For the honor of the fumet,
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 1: the desert consisted of faded fruit and iced froth, a
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: good emblem of our landlady's character. The table beer was sour,
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: the water fowl, and the wine vapid. But there was
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 1: a parade of plate in china, and a powdered lackey
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: stood behind every chair, except those of the Master and
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: Mistress of the house, who were served by two valets
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 1: dressed like gentlemen. We dined in a large old Gothic parlor,
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: which was formerly the hall. It was now paved with marble,
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: and notwithstanding the fire which had been kindled about an hour,
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: struck me with such a chill sensation that when I
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: entered at the teeth chattered in my jaws. In short,
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: everything was cold, comfortless, and disgusting, except the looks of
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: my friend Baynard, which declared the warmth of his affection
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: and humanity. After dinner, we withdrew into another apartment, where
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 1: the boy began to be impertinently troublesome to my niece Liddy.
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: He wanted a playfellow forsooth, and would have romped with
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: her had she encouraged his advances. He was even so
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: impudent as to snatch a kiss, at which she changed
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: countenance and seemed uneasy, And though his father checked him
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 1: for the rudeness of his behavior, he became so outrageous
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: as to thrust his hand in her bosom, an insult
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 1: to which she did not tamely submit, though one of
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: the mildest creatures upon earth. Her eyes sparkling with resentment,
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: she started up and lent him such a box in
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: the ear as sent him staggering to the other side
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: of the room. Miss Melford cried, his father, you have
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: treated him with the utmost propriety. I am only sorry
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 1: that the impertinence of any child of mine should have
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: occasioned this exertion of your spirit, which I cannot but
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: applaud and admire. His wife was so far from ascending
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: to the candor of his apology that she rose from
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 1: the table, and, taking her son by the hand, come child,
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: said she, your father cannot abide you. So saying, she
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: retired with this hopeful youth, and was followed by her gouvernante.
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: But neither the one nor the other deign to take
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: the least notice of the company. Baynard was exceedingly disconcerted,
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: but I perceived his uneasiness was tinctured with resentment, and
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: derived a good omen from this discovery. I ordered the
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: horses to be put to the carriage, and though he
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: made some efforts to detain us all night, I insisted
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: upon leaving the house immediately. But before I went away,
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: I took an opportunity of speaking to him again in private.
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: I said everything I could recollect to animate his endeavors.
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: In shaking off those shameful trammels. I made no scruple
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: to declare that his wife was unworthy of that tender complaisance,
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: which he had shown for her foibles, that she was
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: dead to all the genuine sentiments of conjugal affection, insensible
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: of her own honor and interest, and seemingly destitute of
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: common sense and reflection. I conjured him to remember what
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: he owed to his father's house, to his own reputation,
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: and to his family, including even this unreasonable woman herself,
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: who was driving unblindly to her own destruction. I advised
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: him to form a plan for retrenching superfluous expense, and
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: try to convince the Aunt of the necessity for such
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: a reformation, that she might gradually prepare her niece for
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: its execution. And I exhorted him to turn that disagreeable
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: piece of formality out of the house if he should
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 1: find her averse to his proposal. Here he interrupted me
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: with a sigh, observing that such a step would undoubtedly
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: be fatal to Missus Baynard. I shall lose all patience,
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: cried I to hear you talk so weakly. Missus Baynard's
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 1: fits will never hurt her constitution. I believe in my
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: conscience they are all affected. I am sure she has
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: no feeling for your distresses. And when you are ruined,
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: she will appear to have no feeling for her own. Finally,
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 1: I took his word and honor that he would make
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 1: an effort such as I had advised, that he would
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: form a plan of economy, and if he found it
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: impracticable without my assistance, he would come to Bath in
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: the winter, where I promised to give him the meeting
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: and contribute all in my power to the retrieval of
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: his affairs. With this mutual engagement we parted, and I
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: shall think myself supremely happy if by my means worthy man,
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: whom I love and esteem, can be saved from misery,
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: disgrace and despair. I have only one friend more to
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: visit in this part of the country. But he is
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: of a complexion very different from that of Baynard. You
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: have heard me mention Sir Thomas Beauford, whom I knew
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 1: in Italy. He is now become a country gentleman. But
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: being disabled by the gout from enjoying any amusement abroad,
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 1: he entertains himself within doors by keeping open house for
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 1: all corners and playing upon the oddities and humors of
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: his company. But he himself is generally the greatest original
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: at his table. He is very good humored, talks much,
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: and laughs without ceasing. I am told that all the
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 1: use he makes of his understanding at present is to
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: excite mirth by exhibiting his guests in ludicrous attitudes. I
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 1: know not how far we may furnish him with entertainment
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: of this kind, but I am resolved to beat up
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: his quarters, partly with a view to laugh with the
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: Knight himself, and partly to pay my respects to his lady,
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: a good natured, des sensible woman, with whom he lives
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 1: upon very easy terms, although she has not had the
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: good fortune to bring him an heir to his estate.
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: And now, dear Dick, I must tell you for your
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 1: comfort that you are the only man upon earth to
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: whom I would presume to send such a long winded
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: epistle which I could not find in my heart to curtail,
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 1: because the subject interested the warmest passions of my heart.
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 1: Neither will I make any other apology to a correspondent
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: who has been so long accustomed to the impertinence of
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: Matt Bramble. September thirtieth, to Sir Watkin Phillips bart at Oxen,
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  Speaker 1: Dear Knight, I believe there is something mischievous in my disposition,
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: for nothing diverts me so much as to see certain
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: characters tormented with false terrors. Dot. We last night lodged
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: at the house of Sir Thomas Beauford, an old friend
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: of my uncle, a jolly fellow of moderate intellects, who,
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: in spite of the gout which hath lamb at him,
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 1: is resolved to be merry to the last and mirth.
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: He has a particular knack in extract from his guests,
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: let their humor be ever so caustic or refractory. Dot.
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: Besides our company, there was in the house a fat
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: headed justice of the peace called Frogmore, and a country
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: practitioner in surgery, who seemed to be our landlord's chief
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: companion and confidanta. We found the Knight sitting on a
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 1: couch with his crutches by his side and his feet
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: supported on cushions. But he received us with a hearty welcome,
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: and seemed greatly rejoiced at our arrival. Dot. After tea
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: we were entertained with a sonata on the harpsichord by
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: Lady Bullford, who sung and played to admiration. But Sir
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: Thomas seemed to be a little asinine in the article
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: of ears, though he affected to be in raptures and
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 1: begged his wife to favor us with an arietta of
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: her own, composing Dot. This arietta, however, she no sooner
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: began to perform than he, and the Justice fell asleep.
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 1: But the moment she ceased playing, the night waked, snorting
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: and exclaimed, O Kara, what do you think, gentlemen? Will
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: you talk any more of your pargolissi and your Corelli.
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: At the same time, he thrust his tongue in one
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: cheek and leered with one eye at the doctor and me,
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: who sat on his left hand. He concluded the pantomime
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 1: with a loud laugh, which he could command at all times.
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 1: Extemporary Dot, notwithstanding his disorder, he did not do penance
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: at supper, nor did he ever refuse his glass when
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: the toast went round, but rather encouraged a quick circulation.
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: Both by precept and example, I soon perceived the Doctor
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 1: had made himself very necessary to the Baronet. Dot. He
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: was the whetstone of his wit, the butt of his satire,
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 1: and his operator in certain experiments of humor which were
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: occasionally tried upon stranger's dot Justice Frogmore was an excellent
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: subject for this species of philosophy, sleek and corpulent, solemn
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: and shallow. He had studied Burne with uncommon application, but
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 1: he studied nothing so much as the art of living,
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 1: that is, eating well. This fat buck had often afforded
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 1: good sport to our landlord, and he was frequently started
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 1: with tolerable success in the course of this evening. But
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: the Baronet's appetite for ridicule seemed to be chiefly excited
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: by the appearance, address, and conversation of liz Mahego, whom
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 1: he attempted in all different modes of exposition. But he
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: put me in mind of a contest that I once
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: saw betwixt a young hound and an old hedgehog. The
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: dog turned him over and over, and bounced and barked
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: and mumbled, but as often as he attempted to bite,
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: he felt a prickle in his jaws, and recoiled in
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 1: manifest confusion. The captain, when left to himself, will not
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 1: fail to turn his ludicrous side to the company, But
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 1: if any man attempts to force him into that attitude,
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: he becomes stubborn as a mule, and unmanageable as an
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: elephant unbroke. Diver's tolerable jokes were cracked upon the Justice,
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 1: who eat a most unconscionable supper, and, among other things,
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 1: a large plate of broiled mushrooms, which he had no
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 1: sooner swallowed than. The Doctor of ba served with great
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 1: gravity that they were of the kind called champinions, which
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: in some constitutions has a poisonous effect. Mister Frogmore, startled
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 1: at this remark, asked in some confusion why he had
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 1: not been so kind as to give him that notice
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 1: sooner dot He answered that he took it for granted
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: by his eating them so heartily that he was used
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 1: to the dish. But as he seemed to be under
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 1: some apprehension, he prescribed a bumper of plague water, which
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 1: the Justice drank off immediately and retired to rest, not
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 1: without marks of terror and disquiet. At midnight we were
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 1: shown to our different chambers, and in half an hour
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 1: I was fast asleep in bed. But about three o'clock
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 1: in the morning I was waked with a dismal cry
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: of fire, and starting up, ran to the window in
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: my shirt dot Deth. Night was dark and stormy, and
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 1: a number of people, half dressed, ran backwards and forwards
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 1: through the court yard with lynx and lanterns, seemingly in
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: the utmost hurry intrepidation, slipping on my clothes in a
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 1: twinkling I ran down stairs and upon inquiry found the
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 1: fire was confined to a back stair which led to
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 1: a detached apartment where Liz Machego laid out. By this
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 1: time the lieutenant was alarmed by bawling at his window,
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 1: which was in the second story, but he could not
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 1: find his clothes in the dark, and his room door
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 1: was locked on the outside. The servants called to him
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 1: that the house had been robbed, that without all doubt,
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 1: the villains had taken away his clothes, fastened the door
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 1: and set the house on fire, for the staircase was
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 1: in flames. Dot. In this dilemma, the poor lieutenant ran
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: about the room naked like a squirrel in a cage,
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: popping out his bead at the window between wiles and
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 1: imploring assistance. Dot. At length, the Knight in person was
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 1: brought out in his chair, attended by my uncle and
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 1: all the family, including our aunt Tabitha, who screamed and
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 1: cried and tore her hair as if she had been distracted.
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: Sir Thomas had already ordered his pe people to bring
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: a long ladder, which was applied to the captain's window,
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 1: and now he exhorted him earnestly to descend. Dot There
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 1: was no need of much rhetoric to persuade liz Mahego,
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: who forthwith made his exit by the window, roaring all
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: the time to the people below to hold fast the ladder.
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: Notwithstanding the gravity of the occasion, it was impossible to
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: behold this scene without being seized with an inclination to laugh.
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 1: The rueful aspect of the lieutenant in his shirt, with
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 1: a quilted night cap fastened under his chin, and his long,
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 1: lank limbs and posteriors exposed to the wind, made a
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 1: very picturesque appearance when illumined by the links and torches
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 1: which the servants held up to light him. In his
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 1: descent Dot All the company stood round the ladder, except
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 1: the Knight, who sat in his chair, exclaiming from time
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 1: to time, Lord, have mercy upon us, save the gentleman's life.
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 1: Mind your footing, dear Captain, softly, stand fast, clasp the
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: ladder with both hands. There well done, my dear boy
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: o bravo, an old soldier for ever, bring a blanket,
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: Bring a warm blanket to comfort his poor carcass warm
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 1: the bed in the green room. Give me your hand,
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 1: dear captain. I'm rejoiced to see thee safe and sound
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 1: with all my heart. Liz Mahego was received at the
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 1: foot of the latter by his enamorata, who, snatching a
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 1: blanket from one of the maids, wrapped it about his body.
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 1: Two men servants took him under the arms, and a
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 1: female conducted him to the green room, still accompanied by
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: missus Tabitha, who saw him fairly put to bed. Dot
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 1: During this whole transaction he spoke not a syllable, but
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 1: looked exceeding grim, sometimes at one, sometimes at another. Of
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: the spectators, who now adjourned in a body to the
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 1: parlor where we had supped, every one surveying another with
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 1: marks of astonishment and curiosity the night, being seated in
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 1: an easy chair, seized my uncle by the hand, and
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 1: bursting into a long and loud laugh, Matt cried, he
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 1: crown me with oak or ivy, or laurel or parsley,
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 1: or what you will, and acknowledge this to be a
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 1: coup de matra in the way of waggery. Ha ha ha,
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 1: Such a commissiada scalliata buffada, Oh chay roba, Oh what
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 1: a subject, Oh what caricatura, Oh for a Rosa, a Rembrandt,
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: a sharkan zooks. I'll give a hundred guineas to have
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: it painted. What a fine descent from the cross, or
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 1: ascent to the gallows? What lights and shadows? What a
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 1: group below? What expression above? What an aspect? Did you mind?
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 1: The aspect ha ha ha. And the limbs and the muscles,
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 1: every toe denoted terror ha ha ha. Then the blanket,
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: Oh what costume? Saint Andrew, Saint Lazarus, Saint Barabas ha
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 1: ha ha. After all, then, cried mister Bramble, very gravely,
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 1: this was no more than a false alarm. Dot. We
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 1: have been frightened out of our beds and almost out
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: of our senses for the joke's sake. I and such
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 1: a joke, cried our landlord, Such a farce, such a denument,
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 1: such a catastrophe. Have a little patience, replied our squire.
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: We are not yet come to the catastrophe, and pray
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 1: God it may not turn out a tragedy instead of
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 1: a farce. The captain is one of those saturnine subjects
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 1: who have no idea of humor. Dot He never laughs
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 1: in his own person, nor can he bear that other
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: people should laugh at his expense. Besides, if the subject
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 1: had been properly chosen, the joke was too severe in
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 1: all conscience. Stath cried the Knight. I could not have
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 1: baited him an ace had he been my own father.
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 1: And as for the subject, such another does not present
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 1: itself once in half a century. Here Missus Tabitha, interposing
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 1: and bridling up, declared she did not see that mister
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 1: Lisle Madge was a fitter subject for ridicule than the
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 1: Knight himself, and that she was very much afraid he
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 1: would very soon find he had mistaken his man. Dot.
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 1: The Baronet was a good deal disconcerted by his intimation,
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 1: saying that he must be a Goth and a Barbarian
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 1: if he did not enter into the spirit of such
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 1: a happy and humorous contrivance. Dot. He begged, however, that
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 1: mister Bramble and his sister would bring him to reason,
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: and this request was reinforced by Lady Beauford, who did
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 1: not fail to read the Baronet a lecture upon his indiscretion,
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 1: which lecture he received with submission on one side of
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 1: his face and a leer upon the other. We now
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 1: went to bed for the second time, and before I
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 1: got up, my uncle had visited Liz Machego in the
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 1: green room and used such arguments with him that when
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 1: we met in the parlor, he seemed to be quite appeased.
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 1: He received the Knight's apology with good grace, and even
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: professed himself pleased at finding he had contributed to the
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 1: diversion of the company. Dot Sir Thomas shook him by
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: the hand, laughing heartly, and then desired a pinch of
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 1: snuff in token of perfect reconciliation. The Lieutenant, putting his
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 1: hand in his waistcoat pocket, pulled out, instead of his
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 1: own Scotch mole, a very fine gold snuff box, which
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 1: he no sooner perceived than he said. Here is a
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 1: small mistake, no mistake at all, cried the Baronet. Of
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 1: fair exchange. Is no robbery. Dot oblige me so far,
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 1: Captain as to let me keep your molas a memorial, Sir,
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 1: said the Lieutenant. The moll is much at your service,
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: But this machine. I can by no means retained it.
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 1: It looks like compounding a sort of felony in the
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 1: code of honor. Besides, I don't know, but there may
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 1: be another joke in this conveyance. And I don't find
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: myself disposed to be brought upon the stage again. I
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 1: won't presume to make free with your pockets, but I
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 1: beg you will put it up again with your own hand. So,
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 1: saying with a certain austerity of aspect, he presented the
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 1: snuff box to the Knight, who received it in some confusion,
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 1: and restored the mole, which he would by no means
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 1: keep except on the terms of exchange. This transaction was
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 1: like to give a grave cast to the conversation. When
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 1: my uncle took notice that mister Justice Frogmore had not
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 1: made his appearance, either at the night Alarm or now
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 1: at the General rendezvous. The baronet, hearing Frogmore mentioned odd
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 1: so cried he I had forgot the justice to CARRITHI
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 1: doctor go and bring him out of his kennel. Then,
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: laughing till his sides were well shaken, he said he
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 1: would shew the Captain that he was not the only
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 1: person of the drama exhibited for the entertainment of the company.
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 1: As to the night scene, it could not affect the Justice,
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 1: who had been purposely lodged in the farther end of
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 1: the house, remote from the noise, and lulled with a
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 1: dose of opium into the bargain. In a few minutes,
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 1: mister Justice was led into the parlor in his night
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 1: cap and loose morning gown, rolling his head from side
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 1: to side and groaning piteously all the way to Jesu
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 1: neighbor Frogmore, exclaimed the baronet, what is the matter? You
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 1: look as if you was not a man? For this word?
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: Old Dot set him down softly on the couch. Poor gentleman, Lord,
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 1: have mercy upon us. What makes him so pale and
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 1: yellow and bloated? Oh, sir Thomas, cried the Justice. I
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 1: doubt tis all over with me. Those mushrooms I eat
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 1: at your table have done my business. Ah oh hey,
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 1: now the Lord forbid, said the other, what man, have
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 1: a good heart? How does thy stomach feel? Haul to
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 1: this interrogation, he made no reply, but, throwing aside his nightgown,
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 1: discovered that his waistcoat would not meet upon his belly
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 1: by five good inches at least Heaven protect us all,
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 1: cried Sir Thomas. What a melancholy spectacle. Never did I
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 1: see a man so suddenly swelled, but when he was
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: either just dead or just dying. Do doctor, canst thou
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 1: do nothing for this poor object. I don't think the
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 1: case is quite desperate, said the surgeon, But I would
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 1: advise mister Frogmore to settle his affairs with all expedition.
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 1: The parson may come and pray by him, while I
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 1: prepare a glister and an emetic draft. The justice rolling
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 1: his languid eyes ejaculated with great fervency, Lord, have mercy
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 1: upon us, Christ, have mercy upon us. Then he begged
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 1: the surgeon in the name of God to despatch. As
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 1: for my worldly affairs, said he. They are all settled
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: but one mortgage, which must be left to my heirs.
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 1: But my poor soul, my poor soul. What will become
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 1: of my poor soul? Miserable sinner that I am? Nay
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: piarethee my dear boy, compose thyself resumed the knight. Consider
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 1: the mercy of Heaven is infinite. Thou canst not have
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: any sins of a very deep dye on thy conscience
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 1: or the devil's d Nay not the devil, exclaimed the
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 1: terrified Frogmore, I have more sins to answer for than
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 1: the world dreams of dot ah. Friend, I have been sly,
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: sly damned, sly Send for the parson without loss of time,
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 1: and put me to bed, for I am posting to eternity.
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 1: He was accordingly raised from the couch and supported by
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 1: two servants, who led him back to his room. But
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 1: before he quitted the parlor, he entreated the good company
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 1: to assist him with their prayer's dot He added, take
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 1: warning by me, who am suddenly cut off in my
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: prime like a flower of the field. And God forgive you,
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 1: Sir Thomas, for suffering such poisonous trash to be eaten
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 1: at your table. He was no sooner removed out of
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 1: hearing than the baronet abandoned himself to a violent fit
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 1: of laughing, in which he was joined by the greatest
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 1: part of the company. But we could hardly prevent the
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 1: good lady from going to undeceive the patient by discovering
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 1: that while he slept, his waistcoat had been straightened by
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 1: the contrivance of the surgeon, and that the disorder in
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 1: his stomach and bowels was occasioned by some antimonial wine
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 1: which he had taken over night under the denomination of
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 1: plague water. She seemed to think that his apprehension might
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 1: put an end to his life. The Knight swore he
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 1: was no such chicken, but a tough old rogue that
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 1: would live long enough to plague all his neighbors. Dot
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 1: Upon inquiry, we found his character did not entitle him
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: to much compassion or respect, and therefore we let our
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 1: landlord's humor take its course. Stock a glister was actually
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 1: administered by an old woman of the family who had
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: been Sir Thomas's nurse, and the patient took a draft
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 1: made with oxymal of squills to forward the operation of
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 1: the antimonial wine, which had been retarded by the opiate
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 1: of the preceding night. He was visited by the vicar,
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 1: who read prayers and began to take an account of
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 1: the state of his soul. When those medicines produced their effect,
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 1: so that the parson was obliged to hold his nose
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 1: while he poured forth spiritual consolation from his mouth. The
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 1: same expedient was used by the Knight and me, who
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 1: with the doctor, entered the chamber at this juncture, and
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 1: found Frogmore enthroned on an easy chair under the pressure
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 1: of a double evacuation. The short intervals betwixt every heat
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 1: he employed in crying for mercy, confessing his sins, or
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 1: asking the vicar's opinion of his case, and the vicar
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 1: answered in a solemn, snuffling tone that heightened the ridicule
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 1: of the scene. The emetic having done its office, the
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 1: doctor interfered and ordered the patient to be put in
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 1: bed again. When he examined thee jesta and felt his pulse,
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 1: he declared that much of the virus was discharged, and
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 1: giving him a composing draft, assured him he had good
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 1: hopes of his recovery. Dot This welcome hint he received
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 1: with the tears of joy in his eyes, protesting that
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 1: if he should recover, he would always think himself indebted
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 1: for his life to the great skill and tenderness of
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 1: his doctor, whose hand he squeezed with great fervor. And
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: thus he was left to his repose. We were pressed
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 1: to stay dinner that we might be witnesses of his resuscitation,
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: but my uncle insisted upon our departing before noon, that
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 1: we might reach this town before it should be dark.
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 1: In the mean time, Lady Bullford conducted us into the
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 1: garden to see a fish pond just finished, which mister
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: Bramble censured as being too near the parlor, where the
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 1: Knight now sat by himself dozing in an elbow chair
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 1: after the fatigues of his morning achievement dot In this situation,
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 1: he reclined with his feet wrapped in flannel and supported
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 1: in a line with his body. When the door flying
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 1: open with a violent shock, Lieutenant liz Mahego rushed into
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 1: the room with horror in his looks, exclaiming a mad dog,
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 1: a mad dog, and throwing up the window sash leaped
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 1: into the garden. Sir Thomas, waked by this tremendous exclamation,
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 1: started up and forgetting his gout, followed the Lieutenant's example
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 1: by a kind of instinctive impulse. He not only bolted
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 1: through the window like an arrow from a bow, but
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 1: ran up to his middle in the pond before he
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 1: gave the least sign of recollection. Then the Captain began
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: to bawl, Lord, have mercy upon us, Pray take care
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 1: of the gentleman, for God's sake. Mind your footing my
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 1: dear boy, get warm blankets, comfort his poor carcase, warmed
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: the bed in the green room. Lady Bullford was thunderstruck
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 1: at this phenomenon, and the rest of the company gazed
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 1: in silent astonishment, while the servants hastened to assist their master,
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 1: who suffered himself to be carried back into the parlor
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 1: without speaking a word. Dot being instantly accommodated with dry
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 1: clothes and flannels, comforted with a cordial and replaced in
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 1: static quo. One of the maids was ordered to chafe
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 1: his lower extremities, an operation in consequence of which his
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 1: senses seemed to return, and his good humor to revive. Dot.
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 1: As we had followed him into the room, he looked
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 1: at every individual in his turn with a certain ludicrous
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 1: expression in his countenance, but fixed his eyes in particular
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 1: upon Lis Machego, who presented him with a pinch of snuff,
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 1: And when he took it in silence, Sir Thomas Beauford said,
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 1: he I am much obliged to you for all your favors,
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 1: and some of them I have endeavored to repay in
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 1: your own coin. Give me thy hand, cried the baronet,
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 1: thou hast indeed paid me scot and lot, and even
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 1: left a balance in my hands for which, in presence
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 1: of this company I promised to be accountable so saying,
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 1: he laughed very heartily and even seemed to enjoy the
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 1: retaliation which had been exacted at his own expense. But
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 1: Lady Beaufort looked very grave, and in all probability thought
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 1: the Lieutenant had carried his resentment too far, considering that
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 1: her husband was valetudinary. But according to the proverb, he
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 1: that will play at bulls must expect to meet with rubbers.
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 1: I have seen a tame bear, very diverting, when properly managed,
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 1: become a very dangerous wild beast when teased for the
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 1: entertainment of the spectator's dot. As for liz Mahego, he
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 1: seemed to think the fright and the cold bath would
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 1: have a good effect upon his patient's constitution. But the
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 1: doctor hinted some apprehension that the gouty matter might, by
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 1: such a sudden shock, be repelled from the extremities and
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 1: thrown upon some of the more vile parts of the machine. Dot.
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 1: I should be very sorry to see this prognostic verified
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 1: upon our facetious landlord, who told Missus Tabitha at parting
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 1: that he hoped she would remember him in the distribution
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 1: of the bride's favors, as he had taken so much
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 1: pains to put the captain's parts and meddle to the
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 1: proof dot. After all, I am afraid our squire will
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 1: appear to be the greatest sufferer by the baronet's wit,
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 1: for his constitution is by no means calculated for night alarms.
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 1: He has yawned and shivered all day and gone to
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 1: bed without supper. So that as we have got into
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 1: good quarters, I imagine we shall make a halt tomorrow,
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 1: in which case you will have at least one day's
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 1: respite from the persecution of j Melford. October third, to
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 1: missus Mary Jones at Brambleton Hall, Dear Mary Jones, Miss Lyddy,
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 1: is so good as to unclose me in a chivor
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 1: as fur as Gloucester and the carrier will bring it
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 1: to hand. God send us all safe to Marmoshure, for
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 1: I am quite jaded with rambling. Tis a true saying,
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 1: live and learn, zero woman. What chuckling and changing have
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 1: I seen? Well, there's nothing Sartaine in this world. Who
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 1: would have thought that Mistress, after all the pains taken
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 1: for the good of her Prussia's soul, would gopher to
• 2:13:13
  Speaker 1: throw away her poor body, that she would cast the
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 1: haze of infection upon such a carrying crow as lash mehego,
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 1: as old as matthewslyn, as dry as a red herring,
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 1: and as poor as a starved veasel. Zero Molly hadst
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 1: thou seen him come down the ladder in a shirt
• 2:13:30
  Speaker 1: so scanty that it could not cover his nakedness. The
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 1: young squire called him dunpqwick sat, but he looked for
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 1: all the world like Kradak, a Pymorgan, the old tinker
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 1: that suffered at a Burgundy for stealing of kettle. Then
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 1: he's a profane scuffle, and as mister Clinker says, no
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 1: better than an infiddle continually playing upon the pie bill
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 1: and a new berth. I doubt he has as little
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 1: manners as money, for he can't say a civil word,
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 1: much more make me a present of a pair of
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 1: gloves for goodwill. But he looked as if he wanted
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 1: to be very forward and familiar. O that ever a
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 1: gentlewoman of years and discretion should tear her air and
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 1: cry and disporage herself for such a nubjack. As the
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 1: song goes, I vow she would fain have a bird
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 1: that bid such a price for an owl. But for Sartain,
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 1: he must have dealt with some Scotch musician to bring
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 1: her to this pass. As for me, I put my
• 2:14:23
  Speaker 1: trust in the Lord, and I have got a slice
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 1: of which elms sewed in the gathers of my under petticoat.
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 1: And mister Clinker assures me that by the new light
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 1: of Greece, I may deify the devil and all his works.
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 1: But I knows what I knows. If Mistress should take
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 1: up with lash mahego, this is no service for me,
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 1: Thank God. There's no want of places, and if it
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 1: want for one thing, I would, But no matter. Madame
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 1: Baynar's woman has twenty good pounds a year in parquisites,
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 1: and dresses like a parson of distinction. I dined with her,
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 1: and the valley as shambles with bags and golden jackets,
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 1: but there was nothing comfortable to eat. Be is how
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 1: they lived upon board, and having nothing but a piss
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 1: of good cuddling tart and some blamangy. I was tuck
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 1: with the cullick and a mercy. It was that mistress
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 1: had her vile of assings in the cocks. But as
• 2:15:12
  Speaker 1: I was saying, I think for Sartaine, this match will
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 1: go forward, for things are come to a creesus and
• 2:15:18
  Speaker 1: I have seen with my own baize such smuggling. But
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 1: I scorn for to exclose the secrets of the family.
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 1: And if it once comes to marrying, who knows, but
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 1: the frolic may go round. I believes as how Miss
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 1: Liddy would have no reversion if her swan would appear,
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 1: And you would be surprised, Mollie, to receive a bride's
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 1: fever from your humble servant. But this is all suppository,
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 1: dear girl, and I have sullenly promised to mister Clinker
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 1: that neither man, woman nor child shall know that arrow
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 1: said a civil thing to me in the way of infection.
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 1: I hope to drink your health at Brambleton Hall in
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 1: a horn of October, before the month be out. Pray
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 1: let my bed be turned once a day and the
• 2:15:58
  Speaker 1: wind door opened while the weather is dry, and burn
• 2:16:01
  Speaker 1: a few billets with some brush in the footman's garret,
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 1: and see there Matt rash be dry as a bone,
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 1: for both our gentlemen have got as sad could by
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 1: lying in damp shits at Sir Thomas Belfark's no more
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 1: at present, but my service to Saul and the rest
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 1: of our fellow servants being Dear Mary Jones, always yours.
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 1: Win Jenkins, October fourth, to Miss Letitia Willis at Gloucester,
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 1: My dear Letty. This method of writing to you from
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 1: time to time, without any hopes of an answer, affords
• 2:16:32
  Speaker 1: me I own some ease and satisfaction in the midst
• 2:16:36
  Speaker 1: of my disquiet, as it in some degree lightens the
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 1: burthen of affliction. But it is at best a very
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 1: imperfect enjoyment of friendship, because it admits of no return
• 2:16:45
  Speaker 1: of confidence and good counsel. I would give the whole
• 2:16:48
  Speaker 1: world to have your company for a single day. I
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 1: am heartily tired of this itinerant way of life. I
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 1: am quite dizzy with a perpetual succession of objects. Besides,
• 2:16:58
  Speaker 1: it is impossible to travel such a length of way
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 1: without being exposed to inconveniencies, dangers, and disagreeable accidents, which
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 1: prove very grievous to a poor creature of weak nerves.
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 1: Like me and make me pay very dear for the
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 1: gratification of my curiosity. Nature never intended me for the
• 2:17:15
  Speaker 1: busy world. I long for repose and solitude, where I
• 2:17:18
  Speaker 1: can enjoy that disinterested friendship which is not to be
• 2:17:21
  Speaker 1: found among crowds, and indulge those pleasing reveries that shun
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 1: the hurry and tumult of fashionable society. Unexperienced as I
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 1: am in the commerce of life, I have seen enough
• 2:17:31
  Speaker 1: to give me a disgust to the generality of those
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 1: who carry it on. There is such malice, treachery, and
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 1: dissimulation even among professed friends and intimate companions as cannot
• 2:17:41
  Speaker 1: fail to strike a virtuous mind with horror. And when
• 2:17:44
  Speaker 1: vice quits the stage for a moment, her place is
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 1: immediately occupied by folly, which is often too serious to
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 1: excite any thing but compassion. Perhaps I ought to be
• 2:17:55
  Speaker 1: silent on the foibles of my poor aunt. But with you,
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 1: my dear Willis, I have no secrets, And truly her
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 1: weaknesses are such as cannot be concealed. Since the first
• 2:18:07
  Speaker 1: moment we arrived at Bath, she has been employed constantly
• 2:18:10
  Speaker 1: in spreading nets for the other sex, and at length
• 2:18:13
  Speaker 1: she has caught a superannuated lieutenant who is in a
• 2:18:16
  Speaker 1: fair way to make her change her name. My uncle
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 1: and my brother seem to have no objection to this
• 2:18:20
  Speaker 1: extraordinary match, which I make no doubt will afford abundance
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 1: of matter for conversation and mirth. For my part, I
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 1: am too sensible of my own weaknesses to be diverted
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 1: with those of other people. At present, I have something
• 2:18:34
  Speaker 1: at heart that employs my whole attention and keeps my
• 2:18:37
  Speaker 1: mind in the utmost terror and suspense. Yesterday in the forenoon,
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 1: as I stood with my brother at the parlor window
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 1: of an inn where we had lodged, a person passed
• 2:18:47
  Speaker 1: a horseback, whom, gracious Heaven, I instantly discovered to be Wilson.
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 1: He wore a white riding coat with the cape buttoned
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 1: up to his chin, looking remarkably pale, and passed at
• 2:18:59
  Speaker 1: a round trot without seeming to observe us. Indeed, he
• 2:19:03
  Speaker 1: could not see us, for there was a blind that
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 1: concealed us from the view. You may guess how I
• 2:19:08
  Speaker 1: was affected at this apparition. The light forsook my eyes,
• 2:19:12
  Speaker 1: and I was seized with such a palpitation and trembling
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 1: that I could not stand. I sat down upon a
• 2:19:19
  Speaker 1: couch and strove to compose myself that my brother might
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 1: not perceive my agitation. But it was impossible to escape
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 1: his prying eyes. He had observed the object that alarmed me,
• 2:19:29
  Speaker 1: and doubtless knew him at the first glance. He now
• 2:19:33
  Speaker 1: looked at me with a stern countenance. Then he ran
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 1: out into the street to see what rode the unfortunate
• 2:19:39
  Speaker 1: horseman had taken. He afterwards despatched his man for further intelligence,
• 2:19:43
  Speaker 1: and seemed to meditate some violent design. My uncle being
• 2:19:47
  Speaker 1: out of order, we remained another night at the inn,
• 2:19:50
  Speaker 1: and all day long Jerry acted the part of an
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 1: indefatigable spy upon my conduct. He watched my very looks
• 2:19:56
  Speaker 1: with such eagerness of attention, as if he would have
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 1: penetrated into the uptmos most recesses of my heart. This
• 2:20:01
  Speaker 1: may be owing to his regard for my honor, if
• 2:20:05
  Speaker 1: it is not the effect of his own pride. But
• 2:20:07
  Speaker 1: he is so hot and violent and unrelenting that the
• 2:20:10
  Speaker 1: sight of him alone throws me into a flutter. And
• 2:20:13
  Speaker 1: really it will not be in my power to afford
• 2:20:15
  Speaker 1: him any share of my affection. If he persists in
• 2:20:18
  Speaker 1: persecuting me at this rate, I am afraid he has
• 2:20:21
  Speaker 1: formed some scheme of vengeance which will make me completely wretched.
• 2:20:26
  Speaker 1: I am afraid he suspects some collusion from this appearance
• 2:20:29
  Speaker 1: of Wilson Dot. Good God, did he really appear? Or
• 2:20:34
  Speaker 1: was it only a phantom a pale specter to apprize
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 1: me of his death? Oh, Letty, what shall I do?
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 1: Where shall I turn for advice and consolation? Shall I
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 1: implore the protection of my uncle, who has been always
• 2:20:47
  Speaker 1: kind and compassionate? Dot, This must be my last resource
• 2:20:50
  Speaker 1: to I dread the thoughts of making him uneasy, and
• 2:20:53
  Speaker 1: would rather suffer a thousand deaths than live the cause
• 2:20:55
  Speaker 1: of dissension in the family. Dot. I cannot conceive the
• 2:20:59
  Speaker 1: meaning of Wilson's coming hither. Perhaps it was in quest
• 2:21:03
  Speaker 1: of us in order to disclose his real name and situation.
• 2:21:06
  Speaker 1: But wherefore pass without staying to make the least inquiry,
• 2:21:09
  Speaker 1: my dear willis? I am lost in conjecture. I have
• 2:21:13
  Speaker 1: not closed an eye since I saw him Dot. All
• 2:21:17
  Speaker 1: night long have I been tossed about from one imagination
• 2:21:20
  Speaker 1: to another. The reflection finds no resting place. Dot. I
• 2:21:24
  Speaker 1: have prayed and sighed and wept plentifully. Dot. If this
• 2:21:29
  Speaker 1: terrible suspense continues much longer, I shall have another fit
• 2:21:32
  Speaker 1: of illness, and then the whole family will be in confusion.
• 2:21:35
  Speaker 1: If it was consistent with the wise purposes of Providence
• 2:21:38
  Speaker 1: what I were in my grave. But it is my
• 2:21:40
  Speaker 1: duty to be resigned. Dot, my dearest, letty excuse my weakness,
• 2:21:46
  Speaker 1: excuse these blots. My tears fall so fast that I
• 2:21:49
  Speaker 1: cannot keep the paper dry. Yet I ought to consider
• 2:21:52
  Speaker 1: that I have as yet no cause to despair. But
• 2:21:54
  Speaker 1: I am such a faint hearted, timorous creature. Thank God,
• 2:21:58
  Speaker 1: my uncle is much better than he was yesterday. He
• 2:22:01
  Speaker 1: is resolved to pursue our journey straight to Wales. Dot.
• 2:22:04
  Speaker 1: I hope we shall take Gloucester in our way. That
• 2:22:08
  Speaker 1: hope cheers my poor heart. I shall once more embrace
• 2:22:11
  Speaker 1: my best beloved Willis and pour all my griefs into
• 2:22:14
  Speaker 1: her friendly bosom Dot zero heaven is it possible that
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 1: such happiness is reserved for the dejected and forlorn Lydia Melford,
• 2:22:22
  Speaker 1: October fourth to Sir Watkin Phillips Bart of Jesus College, Oxon.
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  Speaker 1: Dear Watkin, I yesterday met with an incident which I
• 2:22:32
  Speaker 1: believe you will own to be very surprising. As I
• 2:22:34
  Speaker 1: stood with Lydia at the window of thee in where
• 2:22:36
  Speaker 1: we had lodged, who should pass by but Wilson a horseback.
• 2:22:40
  Speaker 1: I could not be mistaken in a person, for I
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 1: had a full view of him as he advanced. I
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 1: plainly perceived by my sister's confusion that she recognized him.
• 2:22:49
  Speaker 1: At the same time, I was equally astonished and incensed
• 2:22:53
  Speaker 1: at his appearance, which I could not but interpret into
• 2:22:56
  Speaker 1: an insult or something worse. I ran out at the gate,
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 1: and seeing him turn the corner of the street, I
• 2:23:02
  Speaker 1: dispatched my servant to observe his motions, but the fellow
• 2:23:06
  Speaker 1: was too late to bring me that satisfaction. He told me, however,
• 2:23:10
  Speaker 1: that there was an inn called the Red Lion at
• 2:23:13
  Speaker 1: that end of the town, where he supposed the horseman
• 2:23:15
  Speaker 1: had alighted, but that he would not inquire without further orders.
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 1: I sent him back immediately to know what strangers were
• 2:23:22
  Speaker 1: in the house, and he returned with a report that
• 2:23:25
  Speaker 1: there was one mister Wilson lately arrived. In consequence of
• 2:23:29
  Speaker 1: this information, I charged him with a note directed to
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 1: that gentleman, desiring him to meet me in half an
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 1: hour in a certain field at the town's end, with
• 2:23:36
  Speaker 1: a case of pistols, in order to decide the difference
• 2:23:39
  Speaker 1: which could not be determined at our last encounter. But
• 2:23:42
  Speaker 1: I did not think proper to subscribe the billet. My
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 1: man assured me he had delivered it into his own hand,
• 2:23:48
  Speaker 1: and that having read it, he declared he would wait
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 1: upon the gentleman at the place and time appointed. Malpine,
• 2:23:55
  Speaker 1: being an old soldier and luckily sober at the time,
• 2:23:58
  Speaker 1: I entrusted him with my secret. I ordered him to
• 2:24:01
  Speaker 1: be within call, and, having given him a letter to
• 2:24:04
  Speaker 1: be delivered to my uncle in case of accident, I
• 2:24:06
  Speaker 1: repaired to the rendezvous, which was an enclosed field at
• 2:24:09
  Speaker 1: a little distance from the highway. I found my antagonist
• 2:24:13
  Speaker 1: had already taken his ground, wrapped in a dark horseman's coat,
• 2:24:17
  Speaker 1: with a laced hat flapped over his eyes. But what
• 2:24:19
  Speaker 1: was my astonishment? When throwing off this wrapper, he appeared
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 1: to be a person whom I had never seen before.
• 2:24:26
  Speaker 1: He had one pistol stuck in a leather belt and
• 2:24:29
  Speaker 1: another in his hand, ready for action, and, advancing a
• 2:24:32
  Speaker 1: few steps, called to know if I was ready. I
• 2:24:35
  Speaker 1: answered no, and desired a parley, upon which he turned
• 2:24:38
  Speaker 1: the muzzle of his piece towards the earth, then replaced
• 2:24:41
  Speaker 1: it in his belt, and met me half way. When
• 2:24:45
  Speaker 1: I assured him he was not the man I expected
• 2:24:47
  Speaker 1: to meet, he said it might be so that he
• 2:24:49
  Speaker 1: had received a slip of paper directed to mister Wilson
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 1: requesting him to come hither, and that as there was
• 2:24:55
  Speaker 1: no other in the place of that name, he naturally
• 2:24:57
  Speaker 1: concluded the note was intended for him and only. I
• 2:25:00
  Speaker 1: then gave him to understand that I had been injured
• 2:25:04
  Speaker 1: by a person who assumed that name, which person I
• 2:25:07
  Speaker 1: had actually seen within the hour passing through the street
• 2:25:09
  Speaker 1: on horseback. That hearing there was a mister Wilson at
• 2:25:12
  Speaker 1: the Red Lion, I took it for granted he was
• 2:25:14
  Speaker 1: the man, and in that belief had rit the billet,
• 2:25:17
  Speaker 1: And I expressed my surprise that he, who was a
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 1: stranger to me and my concerns, should give me such
• 2:25:23
  Speaker 1: a rendezvous without taking the trouble to demand a previous explanation.
• 2:25:29
  Speaker 1: He replied that there was no other of his name
• 2:25:31
  Speaker 1: in the whole country, that no such horseman had alighted
• 2:25:34
  Speaker 1: at the Red Lion since nine o'clock when he arrived, that,
• 2:25:37
  Speaker 1: having had the honor to serve his majesty, he thought
• 2:25:40
  Speaker 1: he could not decently decline any invitation of this kind,
• 2:25:43
  Speaker 1: from what quarter soever it might come, and that if
• 2:25:47
  Speaker 1: any explanation was necessary, it did not belong to him
• 2:25:50
  Speaker 1: to demand it, but to the gentleman who summoned him
• 2:25:52
  Speaker 1: into the field. Vexed as I was at this adventure,
• 2:25:56
  Speaker 1: I could not help admiring the coolness of this officer,
• 2:25:59
  Speaker 1: whose open countenance prepossessed me in his favor. He seemed
• 2:26:03
  Speaker 1: to be turned of forty, wore his own short black hair,
• 2:26:05
  Speaker 1: which curled naturally about his ears, and was very plain
• 2:26:09
  Speaker 1: in his apparel. When I begged pardon for the trouble
• 2:26:11
  Speaker 1: I had given him, he received my apology with great
• 2:26:14
  Speaker 1: good humor. Dot He told me that he lived about
• 2:26:17
  Speaker 1: ten miles off at a small farmhouse, which would afford
• 2:26:21
  Speaker 1: me tolerable lodging if I would come and take diversion
• 2:26:24
  Speaker 1: of hunting with him for a few weeks, in which
• 2:26:26
  Speaker 1: case we might perhaps find out the man who had
• 2:26:29
  Speaker 1: given me offense. I thanked him very sincerely for his
• 2:26:32
  Speaker 1: courteous offer, which I told him I was not at
• 2:26:36
  Speaker 1: liberty to accept at present on account of my being
• 2:26:38
  Speaker 1: engaged in a family party, and so we parted with
• 2:26:41
  Speaker 1: mutual professions of good will and esteem. Now tell me,
• 2:26:45
  Speaker 1: dear Knight, what am I to make of this singular adventure?
• 2:26:49
  Speaker 1: Am I to suppose that the horseman I saw was
• 2:26:52
  Speaker 1: really a thing of flesh and blood or a bubble
• 2:26:54
  Speaker 1: that vanished into air? Or must I imagine Liddy knows
• 2:26:58
  Speaker 1: more of the matter than she choose to disclose. If
• 2:27:01
  Speaker 1: I thought her capable of carrying on any clandestine correspondence
• 2:27:04
  Speaker 1: with such a fellow, I should at once discard all
• 2:27:07
  Speaker 1: tenderness and forget that she was connected with me by
• 2:27:10
  Speaker 1: the ties of blood. But how is it possible that
• 2:27:12
  Speaker 1: a girl of her simplicity and inexperience should maintain such
• 2:27:17
  Speaker 1: an intercourse, surrounded as she is with so many eyes,
• 2:27:21
  Speaker 1: destitute of all opportunity, and shifting quarters every day of
• 2:27:24
  Speaker 1: her life. Besides, she has solemnly promised no. I can't
• 2:27:30
  Speaker 1: think the girl so base, so insensible to the honor
• 2:27:33
  Speaker 1: of her family. Dot What disturbs me chiefly is the
• 2:27:37
  Speaker 1: impression which these occurrences seem to make upon her spirits.
• 2:27:40
  Speaker 1: These are the symptoms from which I conclude that the
• 2:27:42
  Speaker 1: rascal has still a hold on her affection. Surely I
• 2:27:45
  Speaker 1: have a right to call him a rascal, and to
• 2:27:47
  Speaker 1: conclude that his designs are infamous. But it shall be
• 2:27:51
  Speaker 1: my fault if he does not one day repent his presumption.
• 2:27:54
  Speaker 1: I confess I cannot think much less right on this
• 2:27:56
  Speaker 1: subject with any degree of temper or patience. I shall
• 2:28:00
  Speaker 1: will therefore conclude with telling you that we hope to
• 2:28:02
  Speaker 1: be in Wales by the latter end of the month.
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 1: But before that period you will probably hear again from
• 2:28:08
  Speaker 1: your Affectionate Jay Melford, October fourth, to Sir Watkin Phillips,
• 2:28:13
  Speaker 1: Bart of Jesus College, Oxon. Dear Phillips, when I wrote
• 2:28:18
  Speaker 1: you by last post, I did not imagine I should
• 2:28:21
  Speaker 1: be tempted to trouble you again so soon. But I
• 2:28:24
  Speaker 1: now sit down with a heart so full that it
• 2:28:26
  Speaker 1: cannot contain itself. Though I am under such agitation of
• 2:28:29
  Speaker 1: spirits that you are to expect neither method nor connection
• 2:28:33
  Speaker 1: in this address. We have been this day within a
• 2:28:35
  Speaker 1: hair's breadth of losing honest Matthew Bramble, in consequence of
• 2:28:39
  Speaker 1: a cursed accident, which I will endeavor to explain Dot
• 2:28:43
  Speaker 1: in crossing the country. To get into the post road,
• 2:28:45
  Speaker 1: it was necessary to ford a river, and we that
• 2:28:48
  Speaker 1: were a horseback passed without any danger or difficulty. But
• 2:28:51
  Speaker 1: a great quantity of rain having fallen last night and
• 2:28:54
  Speaker 1: this morning, there was such an accumulation of water that
• 2:28:57
  Speaker 1: a mill head gave way just as the coach was
• 2:29:00
  Speaker 1: passing under it, and the flood rushed down with such
• 2:29:03
  Speaker 1: impetuosity as first floated and then fairly overturned the carriage
• 2:29:07
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the stream. Liz Mahego and I
• 2:29:10
  Speaker 1: and the two servants alighting instantaneously ran into the river
• 2:29:14
  Speaker 1: to give all the assistance in our power dot hour.
• 2:29:18
  Speaker 1: And missus Tabitha, who had the good fortune to be uppermost,
• 2:29:21
  Speaker 1: was already half way out of the coach window when
• 2:29:24
  Speaker 1: her lover, approaching, disengaged her entirely. But whether his foot
• 2:29:28
  Speaker 1: slipped or the burthen was too great, they fell over
• 2:29:31
  Speaker 1: head and ears in each other's arms. He endeavored more
• 2:29:35
  Speaker 1: than once to get up, and even to disentangle himself
• 2:29:38
  Speaker 1: from her embrace, but she hung about his neck like
• 2:29:40
  Speaker 1: a mill stone, no bad emblem of matrimony. And if
• 2:29:43
  Speaker 1: my man had not proved a stanch auxiliary. Those two
• 2:29:46
  Speaker 1: lovers would, in all probability have gone hand in hand
• 2:29:49
  Speaker 1: to the shades below. For my part, I was too
• 2:29:53
  Speaker 1: much engaged to take any cognizance of their distress. Dot.
• 2:29:56
  Speaker 1: I snatched out my sister by the hair of the head,
• 2:29:58
  Speaker 1: and dragging her to the bank, recollected that my uncle
• 2:30:02
  Speaker 1: had not yet appeared. Rushing again into the stream, I
• 2:30:05
  Speaker 1: met clinker hauling ashore, Missus Jenkins, who looked like a mermaid,
• 2:30:09
  Speaker 1: with her hair disheveled about her ears. But when I
• 2:30:12
  Speaker 1: asked if his master was safe, he forthwith shook her
• 2:30:15
  Speaker 1: from him, and she must have gone to pot if
• 2:30:18
  Speaker 1: a miller had not seasonably come to her relief. Dot.
• 2:30:20
  Speaker 1: As for Humphrey, he flew like lightning to the coach
• 2:30:25
  Speaker 1: that was by this time filled with water, and diving
• 2:30:28
  Speaker 1: into it, brought up the poor squire to all appearance
• 2:30:32
  Speaker 1: deprived of life. It is not in my power to
• 2:30:34
  Speaker 1: describe what I felt at this melancholy spectacle. It was
• 2:30:37
  Speaker 1: such an agony as baffles all description. The faithful clinker,
• 2:30:42
  Speaker 1: taking him up in his arms as if he had
• 2:30:44
  Speaker 1: been an infant of six months, carried him ashore, howling
• 2:30:47
  Speaker 1: most piteously. All the way, and I followed him in
• 2:30:50
  Speaker 1: a transport of grief and consternation. When he was laid
• 2:30:53
  Speaker 1: upon the grass and turned from side to side, a
• 2:30:55
  Speaker 1: great quantity of water ran out at his mouth. Then
• 2:30:58
  Speaker 1: he opened his eyes and fetched a deep sigh. Clinker,
• 2:31:03
  Speaker 1: perceiving these signs of life, immediately tied up his arm
• 2:31:06
  Speaker 1: with a garter, and, pulling out a horse fleame, let
• 2:31:09
  Speaker 1: him blood in the ferrier styled. At first, a few
• 2:31:13
  Speaker 1: drops only issued from the orifice, but the limb being chafed,
• 2:31:17
  Speaker 1: in a little time the blood began to flow in
• 2:31:19
  Speaker 1: a continued stream, and he uttered some incoherent words, which
• 2:31:22
  Speaker 1: were the most welcome sounds that ever saluted my ear.
• 2:31:26
  Speaker 1: There was a country in hard by, the landlord of
• 2:31:29
  Speaker 1: which had by this time come with his people to
• 2:31:31
  Speaker 1: give their assistance. Dot thither my uncle, being carried, was
• 2:31:35
  Speaker 1: undressed and put to bed, wrapped in warm blankets. But
• 2:31:39
  Speaker 1: having been moved too soon, he fainted away and once
• 2:31:42
  Speaker 1: more lay without sense or motion, notwithstanding all the efforts
• 2:31:46
  Speaker 1: of Clinker and the landlord, who bathed his temples with
• 2:31:48
  Speaker 1: hungry water and held a smelling bottle to his nose.
• 2:31:53
  Speaker 1: As I had heard of the efficacy of salt in
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 1: such cases. I ordered all that was in the house
• 2:31:57
  Speaker 1: to be laid under his head and body, and whether
• 2:31:59
  Speaker 1: the application had the desired effect or nature of herself prevailed.
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 1: He in less than a quarter of an hour began
• 2:32:06
  Speaker 1: to breathe regularly, and soon retrieved his recollection, to the
• 2:32:10
  Speaker 1: unspeakable joy of all the bystanders. As for Clinker, his
• 2:32:15
  Speaker 1: brain seemed to be effected. He laughed and wept, and
• 2:32:19
  Speaker 1: danced about in such a distracted manner that the landlord
• 2:32:22
  Speaker 1: very judiciously conveyed him out of the room. My uncle,
• 2:32:26
  Speaker 1: seeing me dropping wet, comprehended the whole of what had happened,
• 2:32:30
  Speaker 1: and asked if all the company was safe. Being answered
• 2:32:33
  Speaker 1: in the affirmative, he insisted upon my putting on dry clothes, and,
• 2:32:37
  Speaker 1: having swallowed a little warm wine, desired he might be
• 2:32:40
  Speaker 1: left to his repose. Before I went to shift myself,
• 2:32:44
  Speaker 1: I inquired about the rest of the family. I found
• 2:32:47
  Speaker 1: Missus Tabitha, still delirious from her fright, discharging very copiously
• 2:32:51
  Speaker 1: the water she had swallowed. She was supported by the
• 2:32:54
  Speaker 1: captain distilling drops from his uncurled periwig. So lank and
• 2:32:58
  Speaker 1: so dank that he looked like Father Thames without his
• 2:33:01
  Speaker 1: sedges embracing isis, while she cascaded in his urn. Missus
• 2:33:06
  Speaker 1: Jenkins was present, also in a loose bed gown, without
• 2:33:09
  Speaker 1: either cap or handkerchief. But she seemed to be as
• 2:33:12
  Speaker 1: little compassmentus as her mistress, and acted so many cross
• 2:33:16
  Speaker 1: purposes in the course of her attendants that between the
• 2:33:19
  Speaker 1: two Lis Machegel had occasion for all his philosophy. As
• 2:33:23
  Speaker 1: for Lyddy, I thought the poor girl would have actually
• 2:33:26
  Speaker 1: lost her senses. The good woman of the house had
• 2:33:29
  Speaker 1: shifted her linen and put her into bed, but she
• 2:33:32
  Speaker 1: was seized with the idea that her uncle had perished,
• 2:33:34
  Speaker 1: and in this persuasion made a dismal outcry. Nor did
• 2:33:37
  Speaker 1: she pay the least regard to what I said when
• 2:33:39
  Speaker 1: I solemnly assured her he was safe. Mister Bramble, hearing
• 2:33:43
  Speaker 1: the noise and being informed of her apprehension, desired she
• 2:33:47
  Speaker 1: might be brought into his chamber. And she no sooner
• 2:33:50
  Speaker 1: received this intimation than she ran thither half naked, with
• 2:33:53
  Speaker 1: the wildest expression of eagerness in her countenance. Seeing that
• 2:33:56
  Speaker 1: a squire sitting up in the bed, she sprung, going
• 2:34:00
  Speaker 1: forwards and throwing her arms about his neck, exclaimed in
• 2:34:03
  Speaker 1: a most pathetic tone. Are you are you indeed my uncle,
• 2:34:07
  Speaker 1: my dear uncle, my best friend, my father? Are you
• 2:34:11
  Speaker 1: really living? Or is it an illusion of my poor brain? Honest?
• 2:34:16
  Speaker 1: Matthew was so much affected that he could not help
• 2:34:18
  Speaker 1: shedding tears while he kissed her forehead, saying, my dear liddy,
• 2:34:23
  Speaker 1: I hope I shall live long enough to shew how
• 2:34:25
  Speaker 1: sensible I am of your affection. But your spirits are fluttered. Child.
• 2:34:29
  Speaker 1: You want rest, go to bed and compose yourself, well,
• 2:34:34
  Speaker 1: I will, she replied, But still methinks this cannot be real.
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 1: The coach was full of water. My uncle was under us.
• 2:34:40
  Speaker 1: All gracious God, you was under water? How did you
• 2:34:44
  Speaker 1: get out? Tell me that? Or I shall think this
• 2:34:47
  Speaker 1: is all a deception? In what manner I was brought out?
• 2:34:50
  Speaker 1: I know as little as you do, my dear, said
• 2:34:53
  Speaker 1: the squire, And truly that is a circumstance of which
• 2:34:57
  Speaker 1: I want to be informed. I would have give in
• 2:35:00
  Speaker 1: him a detail of the whole adventure, but he would
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 1: not hear me until I should change my clothes, so
• 2:35:05
  Speaker 1: that I had only time to tell him that he
• 2:35:07
  Speaker 1: owed his life to the courage and fidelity of Clinker,
• 2:35:09
  Speaker 1: and having given him this hint, I conducted my sister
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 1: to her own chamber. This accident happened about three o'clock
• 2:35:16
  Speaker 1: in the afternoon, and in little more than an hour
• 2:35:19
  Speaker 1: the hurricane was all over, But as the carriage was
• 2:35:21
  Speaker 1: found to be so much damaged that it could not
• 2:35:24
  Speaker 1: proceed without considerable repairs, a blacksmith and wheelwright were immediately
• 2:35:28
  Speaker 1: sent for to the next market town, and we congratulated
• 2:35:32
  Speaker 1: ourselves upon being housed at an inn, which, though remote
• 2:35:35
  Speaker 1: from the post road, afforded exceeding good lodging, the women
• 2:35:39
  Speaker 1: being pretty well composed, and the men all afoot. My
• 2:35:43
  Speaker 1: uncle sent for his servant, and in the presence of
• 2:35:45
  Speaker 1: lis mahego and me accosted him in these words, So, Clinker,
• 2:35:50
  Speaker 1: I find you are resolved. I shan't die by water,
• 2:35:52
  Speaker 1: as you have fished me up from the bottom at
• 2:35:54
  Speaker 1: your own risque. You are at least entitled to all
• 2:35:57
  Speaker 1: the money that was in my pocket and there where
• 2:36:00
  Speaker 1: it is so saying, he presented him with a purse
• 2:36:03
  Speaker 1: containing thirty guineas and a ring nearly of the same value.
• 2:36:06
  Speaker 1: God forbid, cried Clinker, your honor shall excuse me. I
• 2:36:11
  Speaker 1: am a poor fellow, but I have a heart. Oh
• 2:36:14
  Speaker 1: if your honor did but know how I rejoiced to
• 2:36:17
  Speaker 1: see blessed be his Holy name, that made me the
• 2:36:19
  Speaker 1: humble instrument. But as for the lucre of gain, I
• 2:36:22
  Speaker 1: renounce it. I have done no more than my duty,
• 2:36:25
  Speaker 1: no more than I would have done for the most
• 2:36:27
  Speaker 1: worthless of my fellow creatures, no more than I would
• 2:36:30
  Speaker 1: have done for Captain Lismhego, or Archie MacAlpine, or any
• 2:36:35
  Speaker 1: sinner upon earth. But for your worship, I would go
• 2:36:37
  Speaker 1: through fire as well as water. I do believe it.
• 2:36:40
  Speaker 1: Humphrey said that a squire. But as you think it
• 2:36:43
  Speaker 1: was your duty to save my life at the hazard
• 2:36:45
  Speaker 1: of your own, I think it is mine to express
• 2:36:48
  Speaker 1: the sense I have of your extraordinary fidelity and attachment.
• 2:36:52
  Speaker 1: I insist upon your receiving this small token of my gratitude.
• 2:36:55
  Speaker 1: But don't imagine that I look upon this as an
• 2:36:57
  Speaker 1: adequate recompense for the service you have done me. I
• 2:37:00
  Speaker 1: have determined to settle thirty pounds a year upon you
• 2:37:02
  Speaker 1: for life, and I desire these gentlemen will bear witness
• 2:37:06
  Speaker 1: to this my intention, of which I have a memorandum
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 1: in my pocket book. Lord, make me thankful for all
• 2:37:12
  Speaker 1: these mercies, cried Clinker, sobbing. I have been a poor,
• 2:37:17
  Speaker 1: bankrupt from the beginning. Your Honor's goodness found me when
• 2:37:20
  Speaker 1: I was naked, when I was sick and forlorn. I
• 2:37:24
  Speaker 1: understand your Honor's looks. I would not give offense, but
• 2:37:27
  Speaker 1: my heart is very full, and if your Worship won't
• 2:37:29
  Speaker 1: give me leave to speak, I must vanit in prayers
• 2:37:32
  Speaker 1: to Heaven for my benefactor. When he quitted the room,
• 2:37:36
  Speaker 1: Liz Machego said he should have a much better opinion
• 2:37:39
  Speaker 1: of his honesty if he did not whine and cant
• 2:37:41
  Speaker 1: so abominably, but that he had always observed those weeping
• 2:37:44
  Speaker 1: and praying fellows were hypocrites at bottom. Mister Bramble made
• 2:37:48
  Speaker 1: no reply to this sarcastic remark, proceeding from the Lieutenant's
• 2:37:52
  Speaker 1: resentment of Clinker, having, in pure simplicity of heart, ranked
• 2:37:56
  Speaker 1: him with Malpine and the sinners of the earth. The landlord,
• 2:37:59
  Speaker 1: being called to restive some orders about the beds, told
• 2:38:02
  Speaker 1: that the squire that his house was very much at
• 2:38:04
  Speaker 1: his service, but he was sure he should not have
• 2:38:07
  Speaker 1: the honor to lodge him in his company. He gave
• 2:38:10
  Speaker 1: us to understand that his master, who lived hard by,
• 2:38:13
  Speaker 1: would not suffer us to be at a public house
• 2:38:15
  Speaker 1: when there was accommodation for us at his own, and
• 2:38:18
  Speaker 1: that if he had not dined abroad in the neighborhood,
• 2:38:21
  Speaker 1: he would have undoubtedly come to offer his services at
• 2:38:24
  Speaker 1: our first arrival. He then launched out in praise of
• 2:38:27
  Speaker 1: that gentleman whom he had served as butler, representing him
• 2:38:30
  Speaker 1: as a perfect miracle of goodness and generosity. He said
• 2:38:34
  Speaker 1: he was a person of great learning, and allowed to
• 2:38:37
  Speaker 1: be the best farmer in the country, that he had
• 2:38:39
  Speaker 1: a lady who was as much beloved as himself, and
• 2:38:41
  Speaker 1: an only son, a very hopeful young gentleman just recovered
• 2:38:45
  Speaker 1: from a dangerous fever which had liked to have proved
• 2:38:47
  Speaker 1: fatal to the whole family, for if the sun had died,
• 2:38:52
  Speaker 1: he was sure the parents would not have survived their loss.
• 2:38:55
  Speaker 1: He had not yet finished the encomium of mister Denison
• 2:38:57
  Speaker 1: when this gentleman arrived in a post chaise, and his
• 2:39:00
  Speaker 1: appearance seemed to justify all that had been said in
• 2:39:03
  Speaker 1: his favor. He is pretty well advanced in years, but hail,
• 2:39:07
  Speaker 1: robust and florid, with an ingenuous countenance expressive of good
• 2:39:12
  Speaker 1: sense and humanity. Having condoled with us on the accident
• 2:39:15
  Speaker 1: which had happened, he said he was come to conduct
• 2:39:18
  Speaker 1: us to his habitation, where we should be less incommoded
• 2:39:20
  Speaker 1: than at such a paltry in, and expressed his hope
• 2:39:23
  Speaker 1: that the ladies would not be the worse for going
• 2:39:25
  Speaker 1: thither in his carriage, as the distance was not above
• 2:39:28
  Speaker 1: a quarter of a mile. My uncle, having made a
• 2:39:31
  Speaker 1: proper return to this courteous exhibition, eyed him attentively, and
• 2:39:34
  Speaker 1: then asked if he had not been at Oxford, a
• 2:39:37
  Speaker 1: commoner of Queen's College, When mister Denison answered yes, with
• 2:39:41
  Speaker 1: some marks of surprise, look at me, then, set our squire,
• 2:39:45
  Speaker 1: and let us see if you can recollect the features
• 2:39:47
  Speaker 1: of an old friend whom you have not seen these
• 2:39:49
  Speaker 1: forty years. The gentlemen taking him by the hand and
• 2:39:55
  Speaker 1: gazing at him earnestly, I protest, cried he. I do
• 2:39:58
  Speaker 1: think I recall the idea of Matthew Lloyd of Glamorganshire,
• 2:40:02
  Speaker 1: who was student of Jesus well remembered my dear friend,
• 2:40:06
  Speaker 1: Charles Denison, exclaimed my uncle, pressing him to his breast.
• 2:40:10
  Speaker 1: I am that very identical Matthew Lloyd of Glamorgan, Clinker,
• 2:40:15
  Speaker 1: who had just entered the room with some coals for
• 2:40:17
  Speaker 1: the fire, no sooner heard these words than throwing down
• 2:40:20
  Speaker 1: the scuttle on the toes of Liz Machego. He began
• 2:40:23
  Speaker 1: to caper as if he was mad, crying, Matthew Lloyd
• 2:40:26
  Speaker 1: of Glamorgan, O providence, Matthew Lloyd of Glamorgan. Then clasping
• 2:40:32
  Speaker 1: my uncle's knees, he went on, in this manner, your
• 2:40:35
  Speaker 1: worship must forgive me Matthew Lloyd of Glamorgan. O, Lord Sir,
• 2:40:41
  Speaker 1: I can't contain myself. I shall lose my senses. Nay,
• 2:40:44
  Speaker 1: thou hast lost them already, I believe, said the squire, peevishly. Prithee, Clinker,
• 2:40:51
  Speaker 1: be quiet, what is the matter? Humphrey, fumbling in his bosom,
• 2:40:56
  Speaker 1: pulled out an old wooden snuff box, which he presented
• 2:40:59
  Speaker 1: in great intrepidation to his master, who, opening it, immediately
• 2:41:03
  Speaker 1: perceived a small Cornelian seal and two scraps of paper.
• 2:41:07
  Speaker 1: At sight of these articles, he started and changed color,
• 2:41:10
  Speaker 1: and casting his eye upon the inscriptions, Ha, how what where?
• 2:41:15
  Speaker 1: Cried he is the person here? Named Clinker, knocking his
• 2:41:20
  Speaker 1: own breast, could hardly pronounce these words. Here here, here
• 2:41:24
  Speaker 1: is Matthew Lloyd as the certificate. Schureth Humphrey Clinker was
• 2:41:28
  Speaker 1: the name of the farrier that took me, prentice. And
• 2:41:30
  Speaker 1: who gave you these tokens? Said my uncle hastily. My
• 2:41:35
  Speaker 1: poor mother, on her death bed, replied the other. And
• 2:41:38
  Speaker 1: who was your mother? Dorothy twyford An, please your honor?
• 2:41:42
  Speaker 1: Heretofore bar keeper at the Angel at Chippenham. And why
• 2:41:45
  Speaker 1: were not these tokens produced before? My mother told me
• 2:41:49
  Speaker 1: she had wrote to Glamorganshire at the time of my
• 2:41:52
  Speaker 1: birth but had no answer, and that afterwards, when she
• 2:41:55
  Speaker 1: made inquiry, there was no such person in that county.
• 2:41:59
  Speaker 1: And so oh, in consequence of my changing my name
• 2:42:01
  Speaker 1: and going abroad at that very time, thy poor mother
• 2:42:04
  Speaker 1: and thou have been left to want and misery. I
• 2:42:07
  Speaker 1: am really shocked at the consequence of my own folly. Then,
• 2:42:12
  Speaker 1: laying his hand on Clinker's head, he added, stand forth,
• 2:42:15
  Speaker 1: Matthew Lloyd, you see, gentlemen, how the sins of my
• 2:42:19
  Speaker 1: youth rise up in judgment against me. Here is my
• 2:42:22
  Speaker 1: direction written with my own hand, and the seal, which
• 2:42:24
  Speaker 1: I left at the woman's request, and this is a
• 2:42:27
  Speaker 1: certificate of the child's baptism, signed by the Curate of
• 2:42:30
  Speaker 1: the parish. The company were not a little surprised at
• 2:42:34
  Speaker 1: this discovery, upon which mister Denison fasiciously congratulated both the
• 2:42:38
  Speaker 1: father and the son. For my part, I shook my
• 2:42:41
  Speaker 1: new found cousin heartily by the hand, and liz mahego
• 2:42:44
  Speaker 1: complimented him with the tears in his eyes, for he
• 2:42:46
  Speaker 1: had been hopping about the room, swearing in broad scotch
• 2:42:50
  Speaker 1: and bellowing with the pain occasioned by the fall of
• 2:42:53
  Speaker 1: the coal scuttle upon his foot. He had even vowed
• 2:42:56
  Speaker 1: to drive the saul out of the body of that
• 2:42:58
  Speaker 1: mad rascal, but pursued Siving the unexpected turn which things
• 2:43:01
  Speaker 1: had taken, he wished in joy of his good fortune,
• 2:43:04
  Speaker 1: observing that it went very near his heart, as he
• 2:43:08
  Speaker 1: was like to be a great toe out of pocket
• 2:43:09
  Speaker 1: by the discovery. Mister Denison now desired to know for
• 2:43:13
  Speaker 1: what reason my uncle had changed the name by which
• 2:43:15
  Speaker 1: he knew him at Oxford, and our squire satisfied him
• 2:43:18
  Speaker 1: by answering to this effect. I took my mother's name,
• 2:43:21
  Speaker 1: which was Lloyd as heir to her lands in Glamorganshire.
• 2:43:25
  Speaker 1: But when I came of age, I sold that property
• 2:43:28
  Speaker 1: in order to clear my paternal estate, and resumed my
• 2:43:31
  Speaker 1: real name, so that I am now Matthew Bramble of
• 2:43:34
  Speaker 1: Brambleton Hall in Monmouthshire, at your service, and this is
• 2:43:37
  Speaker 1: my nephew, Jeremy Melford of Bellfield in the County of Glamorgan.
• 2:43:42
  Speaker 1: At that instant, the ladies entering the room, he presented
• 2:43:45
  Speaker 1: missus Tabitha as his sister, and Lyddy as his niece.
• 2:43:49
  Speaker 1: The old gentleman saluted them very cordially and seemed struck
• 2:43:52
  Speaker 1: with the appearance of my sister, whom he could not
• 2:43:55
  Speaker 1: help surveying with a mixture of complacency and surprise. Sister said,
• 2:43:59
  Speaker 1: my uncle, there is a poor relation that recommends himself
• 2:44:03
  Speaker 1: to your good graces. The quondam Humphrey Clinker is metamorphosed
• 2:44:06
  Speaker 1: into Matthew Lloyd and claims the honor of being your
• 2:44:09
  Speaker 1: carnal kinsman. In short, the rogue proves to be a
• 2:44:12
  Speaker 1: crab of my own planting in the days of hot
• 2:44:14
  Speaker 1: blood and unrestrained libertinism. Clinker had by this time dropped
• 2:44:19
  Speaker 1: upon one knee by the side of missus Tabitha, who,
• 2:44:22
  Speaker 1: eyeing him askance and flirting her fan with marks of agitation,
• 2:44:26
  Speaker 1: thought proper after some conflict, to hold out her hand
• 2:44:30
  Speaker 1: for him to kiss, saying with a demure aspect, Brother,
• 2:44:33
  Speaker 1: you have been very wicked, but I hope you'll live
• 2:44:36
  Speaker 1: to see the folly of your ways. I am very
• 2:44:39
  Speaker 1: sorry to say, the young man whom you have this
• 2:44:41
  Speaker 1: day acknowledged, has more grace and religion, by the gift
• 2:44:45
  Speaker 1: of God than you, with all your profane learning and
• 2:44:47
  Speaker 1: repeated opportunity. I do think he has got the trick
• 2:44:50
  Speaker 1: of the eye and the tip of the nose of
• 2:44:52
  Speaker 1: my uncle Lloyd of Floydwellen. And as for the long chin,
• 2:44:56
  Speaker 1: it is the very moral of the Governor's brother. As
• 2:44:59
  Speaker 1: you have changed his name, pray change his dress. Also
• 2:45:02
  Speaker 1: that livery doth not become any person that hath got
• 2:45:04
  Speaker 1: our blood in his veins. Liddy seemed much pleased with
• 2:45:08
  Speaker 1: this acquisition to the family, dot she took him by
• 2:45:12
  Speaker 1: the hand, declaring she should always be proud to own
• 2:45:15
  Speaker 1: her connection with a virtuous young man who had given
• 2:45:18
  Speaker 1: so many proofs of his gratitude and affection to her uncle.
• 2:45:22
  Speaker 1: Missus Winnifred Jenkins, extremely fluttered between her surprise at this
• 2:45:26
  Speaker 1: discovery and the apprehension of losing her sweetheart, exclaimed in
• 2:45:29
  Speaker 1: a giggling tone, I wish you joy, mister Clinker Floyd.
• 2:45:33
  Speaker 1: I would say, Hi, Hi, Hi, You'll be so proud
• 2:45:37
  Speaker 1: you won't look at your poor fellow servants. Oh oh, oh,
• 2:45:41
  Speaker 1: honest Clinker owned he was overjoyed at his good fortune,
• 2:45:44
  Speaker 1: which was greater than he deserved. But wherefore should I
• 2:45:47
  Speaker 1: be proud? Said he A poor object conceived in sin
• 2:45:52
  Speaker 1: and brought forth in iniquity, nursed in a parish workhouse,
• 2:45:55
  Speaker 1: and bred in a smithy. Whenever I seem proud, Missus
• 2:45:59
  Speaker 1: Jay Lincoln's, I beg of you to put me in
• 2:46:01
  Speaker 1: mind of the condition I was in when I first
• 2:46:04
  Speaker 1: saw you. Between Chippenham and Marlborough. When this momentous affair
• 2:46:08
  Speaker 1: was discussed to the satisfaction of all parties, concerned, the
• 2:46:11
  Speaker 1: weather being dry, the ladies declined the carriage, so that
• 2:46:15
  Speaker 1: we walked altogether to mister Denison's house, where we found
• 2:46:18
  Speaker 1: the tea ready prepared by his lady, an amiable matron,
• 2:46:21
  Speaker 1: who received us with all the benevolence of hospitality. The
• 2:46:25
  Speaker 1: house is old fashioned and irregular, but lodgible and commodious.
• 2:46:30
  Speaker 1: To the south it has the river in front at
• 2:46:32
  Speaker 1: the distance of a hundred paces, and on the north
• 2:46:35
  Speaker 1: there is a rising ground covered with an agreeable plantation.
• 2:46:38
  Speaker 1: The greens and walks are kept in the nicest order,
• 2:46:41
  Speaker 1: and all is rural and romantic. I have not yet
• 2:46:44
  Speaker 1: seen the young gentleman who is on a visit to
• 2:46:47
  Speaker 1: a friend in the neighborhood, from whose house he is
• 2:46:49
  Speaker 1: not expected till tomorrow. In the meantime, as there is
• 2:46:53
  Speaker 1: a man going to the next market town with letters
• 2:46:55
  Speaker 1: for the post, I take this opportunity to send you
• 2:46:58
  Speaker 1: the history of this day, which has been remarkably full
• 2:47:01
  Speaker 1: of adventures, and you will own. I give you them
• 2:47:03
  Speaker 1: like a beef steak at Dolly's Hot and hot, without
• 2:47:06
  Speaker 1: ceremony and parade, just as they come from the recollection
• 2:47:10
  Speaker 1: of yours. J. Melford to doctor Lewis, dear Dick. Since
• 2:47:15
  Speaker 1: the last trouble I gave you, I have met with
• 2:47:17
  Speaker 1: a variety of incidents, some of them of a singular nature,
• 2:47:20
  Speaker 1: which I reserve as a fund for conversation. But there
• 2:47:23
  Speaker 1: are others so interesting that they will not keep in
• 2:47:26
  Speaker 1: petto till meeting. Know then it was a thousand pounds
• 2:47:30
  Speaker 1: to a sixpence, that you should now be executing my
• 2:47:33
  Speaker 1: will instead of perusing my letter. Two days ago our
• 2:47:37
  Speaker 1: coach was overturned in the midst of a rapid river,
• 2:47:40
  Speaker 1: where my life was saved with the utmost difficulty by
• 2:47:43
  Speaker 1: the courage, activity and presence of mind of my servant,
• 2:47:46
  Speaker 1: Humphrey Clinker. But this is not the most surprising circumstance
• 2:47:49
  Speaker 1: of the adventure. The said Humphrey Clinker proves to be
• 2:47:52
  Speaker 1: Matthew Lloyd, natural son of one Matthew Lloyd of Glamorgan.
• 2:47:56
  Speaker 1: If you know any such person, you see doctor that,
• 2:48:00
  Speaker 1: notwithstanding all your philosophy, it is not without some reason
• 2:48:03
  Speaker 1: that the welsh Men ascribe such energy to the force
• 2:48:05
  Speaker 1: of blood. But we shall discuss this point on some
• 2:48:08
  Speaker 1: future occasion. This is not the only discovery which I
• 2:48:12
  Speaker 1: made in consequence of our disaster. We happen to be
• 2:48:15
  Speaker 1: wrecked upon a friendly shore. The lord of the manner
• 2:48:17
  Speaker 1: is no other than Charles Denison, our fellow rake at Oxford.
• 2:48:21
  Speaker 1: We are now happily housed with that gentleman who has
• 2:48:23
  Speaker 1: really attained to that pitch of rural felicity at which
• 2:48:27
  Speaker 1: I have been aspiring these twenty years in vain. He
• 2:48:31
  Speaker 1: is blessed with a consort whose disposition is suited to
• 2:48:34
  Speaker 1: his own in all respects, tender, generous, and benevolent. She
• 2:48:38
  Speaker 1: moreover possesses an uncommon share of understanding, fortitude, and discretion,
• 2:48:43
  Speaker 1: and is admirably qualified to be his companion, confidante, counselor,
• 2:48:49
  Speaker 1: and coajetrics. These excellent persons have an only son, about
• 2:48:54
  Speaker 1: nineteen years of age, just such a youth as they
• 2:48:56
  Speaker 1: could have wished that Heaven would bestow to fill up
• 2:48:58
  Speaker 1: the measure of their enjoyment. In a word, they know
• 2:49:01
  Speaker 1: no other allay to their happiness but their apprehension and
• 2:49:04
  Speaker 1: anxiety about the life and concerns of this beloved object.
• 2:49:08
  Speaker 1: Our old friend, who had the misfortune to be a
• 2:49:11
  Speaker 1: second brother, was bred to the law, and even called
• 2:49:14
  Speaker 1: to the bar, but he did not find himself qualified
• 2:49:16
  Speaker 1: to shine in that province, and had very little inclination
• 2:49:19
  Speaker 1: for his profession. He disobliged his father by marrying for
• 2:49:23
  Speaker 1: love without any consideration of fortune, so that he had
• 2:49:27
  Speaker 1: little or nothing to depend upon for some years. But
• 2:49:30
  Speaker 1: his practice, which afforded him a bare subsistence, and the
• 2:49:33
  Speaker 1: prospect of an increasing family, began to give him disturbance
• 2:49:37
  Speaker 1: and disquiet. In the meantime, his father, dying, was succeeded
• 2:49:41
  Speaker 1: by his elder brother, a fox hunter and assaut, who
• 2:49:45
  Speaker 1: neglected his affairs, insulted and oppressed his servants, and in
• 2:49:48
  Speaker 1: a few years had well nigh ruined the estate when
• 2:49:51
  Speaker 1: he was happily carried off by a fever, the immediate
• 2:49:54
  Speaker 1: consequence of a debauch, Charles, with the approbation of his wife,
• 2:49:59
  Speaker 1: immediately deterred to quit business and retire into the country.
• 2:50:02
  Speaker 1: Although this resolution was strenuously and zealously opposed by every
• 2:50:06
  Speaker 1: individual whom he consulted on the subject, those who had
• 2:50:10
  Speaker 1: tried the experiment assured him that he could not pretend
• 2:50:13
  Speaker 1: to breathe in the country for less than the double
• 2:50:15
  Speaker 1: of what his estate produced, that in order to be
• 2:50:18
  Speaker 1: upon the footing of a gentleman, he would be obliged
• 2:50:20
  Speaker 1: to keep horses, hounds, carriages, with a suitable number of servants,
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  Speaker 1: and maintain an elegant table for the entertainment of his neighbors.
• 2:50:29
  Speaker 1: That farming was a mystery known only to those who
• 2:50:32
  Speaker 1: had been bred up to it from the cradle, the
• 2:50:34
  Speaker 1: success of it depending not only upon skill and industry,
• 2:50:37
  Speaker 1: but also upon such attention and economy as no gentleman
• 2:50:40
  Speaker 1: could be supposed to give or practice. Accordingly, every attempt
• 2:50:44
  Speaker 1: made by gentlemen miscarried, and not a few had been
• 2:50:47
  Speaker 1: ruined by their prosecution of agriculture. Nay, they affirmed that
• 2:50:51
  Speaker 1: he would find it cheaper to buy hay and oats
• 2:50:53
  Speaker 1: for his cattle, and to go to market for poultry, eggs,
• 2:50:56
  Speaker 1: kitchen herbs, and roots, and every the most inconsiderable article
• 2:51:00
  Speaker 1: of house keeping, then to have those articles produced on
• 2:51:04
  Speaker 1: his own ground. These objections did not deter mister Denison,
• 2:51:08
  Speaker 1: because they were chiefly founded on the supposition that he
• 2:51:11
  Speaker 1: would be obliged to lead a life of extravagance and dissipation,
• 2:51:15
  Speaker 1: which he and his consort equally detested, despised, and determined
• 2:51:19
  Speaker 1: to avoid. The objects he had in view were health
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  Speaker 1: of body, peace of mind, and the private satisfaction of
• 2:51:26
  Speaker 1: domestic quiet, unallayed by actual want and uninterrupted by the
• 2:51:30
  Speaker 1: fears of indigence. He was very moderate in his estimate
• 2:51:33
  Speaker 1: of the necessaries and even of the comforts of life.
• 2:51:36
  Speaker 1: He required nothing but wholesome air, pure water, agreeable exercise,
• 2:51:40
  Speaker 1: plain diet, convenient lodging, and decent apparel. He reflected that
• 2:51:47
  Speaker 1: if a peasant, without education or any great share of
• 2:51:50
  Speaker 1: natural sagacity, could maintain a large family and even become
• 2:51:54
  Speaker 1: opulent upon a farm for which he paid an annual
• 2:51:56
  Speaker 1: rent of two or three hundred pounds to the landlord,
• 2:51:59
  Speaker 1: surely he himself might hope for some success from his industry,
• 2:52:03
  Speaker 1: having no rent to pay, but on the contrary, three
• 2:52:07
  Speaker 1: or four hundred pounds a year to receive. He considered
• 2:52:11
  Speaker 1: that the earth was an indulgent mother that yielded her
• 2:52:13
  Speaker 1: fruits to all her children without distinction. He had studied
• 2:52:17
  Speaker 1: the theory of agriculture with a degree of eagerness and delight,
• 2:52:21
  Speaker 1: and he could not conceive there was any mystery in
• 2:52:23
  Speaker 1: the practice. But what he should be able to disclose
• 2:52:25
  Speaker 1: by dint of care and application. With respect to household expense,
• 2:52:30
  Speaker 1: he entered into a minute detail and investigation by which
• 2:52:33
  Speaker 1: he perceived the assertions of his friends were altogether erroneous.
• 2:52:37
  Speaker 1: He found he should save sixty pounds a year in
• 2:52:39
  Speaker 1: the single article of house rent, and as much more
• 2:52:41
  Speaker 1: in pocket money and contingencies, that even butcher's meat was
• 2:52:46
  Speaker 1: twenty percent cheaper in the country than in London, but
• 2:52:49
  Speaker 1: that poultry and almost every other circumstance of housekeeping might
• 2:52:53
  Speaker 1: be had for less than one half of what they
• 2:52:54
  Speaker 1: cost in town. Besides a considerable saving on the side
• 2:52:58
  Speaker 1: of dress. In being delivered from the oppressive imposition of
• 2:53:01
  Speaker 1: ridiculous modes invented by ignorance and adopted by folly as
• 2:53:07
  Speaker 1: to the danger of vying with the rich and pomp
• 2:53:09
  Speaker 1: and equipage, it never gave him the least disturbance. He
• 2:53:13
  Speaker 1: was now turned of forty, and having lived half that
• 2:53:16
  Speaker 1: time in the busy scenes of life, was well skilled
• 2:53:19
  Speaker 1: in the science of mankind. There cannot be in nature
• 2:53:23
  Speaker 1: a more contemptible figure than that of a man who,
• 2:53:25
  Speaker 1: with five hundred a year, presumes to rival in expense
• 2:53:28
  Speaker 1: a neighbor who possesses five times that income. His ostentation,
• 2:53:33
  Speaker 1: far from concealing, serves only to discover his indigence and
• 2:53:36
  Speaker 1: render his vanity the more shocking, for it attracts the
• 2:53:39
  Speaker 1: eyes of censure and excites the spirit of inquiry. There
• 2:53:44
  Speaker 1: is not a family in the county, nor a servant
• 2:53:46
  Speaker 1: in his own house, nor a farmer in the parish.
• 2:53:49
  Speaker 1: But what knows the utmost farthing that his lands produce,
• 2:53:52
  Speaker 1: and all these behold him with scorn or compassion. I
• 2:53:56
  Speaker 1: am surprised that these reflections do not occur to persons
• 2:53:59
  Speaker 1: in this unhappy delay and produce a salutary effect. But
• 2:54:02
  Speaker 1: the truth is, of all the passions incident to human nature,
• 2:54:06
  Speaker 1: vanity is that which most effectually perverts the faculties of
• 2:54:09
  Speaker 1: the understanding. Nay, it sometimes becomes so incredibly depraved as
• 2:54:14
  Speaker 1: to aspire at infamy and find pleasure in bearing the
• 2:54:17
  Speaker 1: stigmas of reproach. I have now given you a sketch
• 2:54:21
  Speaker 1: of the character and situation of mister Denison when he
• 2:54:24
  Speaker 1: came down to take possession of this estate. But as
• 2:54:27
  Speaker 1: the messenger who carries the letters to the next town
• 2:54:30
  Speaker 1: is just setting off, I shall reserve what further I
• 2:54:32
  Speaker 1: have to say on this subject till the next post,
• 2:54:36
  Speaker 1: when you shall certainly hear from yours always Matt Bramble,
• 2:54:40
  Speaker 1: October eighth to Doctor Lewis, once more, Dear doctor, I
• 2:54:46
  Speaker 1: resume the pen for your amusement. It was on the
• 2:54:49
  Speaker 1: morning after our arrival that walking out with my friend
• 2:54:53
  Speaker 1: mister Denison, I could not help breaking forth into the
• 2:54:56
  Speaker 1: warmest expressions of applause at the beauty of the scene,
• 2:54:59
  Speaker 1: which is really in chan and I signified in particular
• 2:55:02
  Speaker 1: how much I was pleased with the disposition of some
• 2:55:05
  Speaker 1: detached groves that afforded at once shelter an ornament to
• 2:55:09
  Speaker 1: his habitation. When I took possession of these lands about
• 2:55:13
  Speaker 1: two and twenty years ago, said he, there was not
• 2:55:16
  Speaker 1: a tree standing within a mile of the house, except
• 2:55:19
  Speaker 1: those of an old, neglected orchard, which produced nothing but
• 2:55:22
  Speaker 1: leaves and moss. Dot. It was in the gloomy month
• 2:55:26
  Speaker 1: of November when I arrived and found the house in
• 2:55:29
  Speaker 1: such a condition that it might have been justly styled
• 2:55:31
  Speaker 1: the Tower of Desolation. The courtyard was covered with nettles
• 2:55:36
  Speaker 1: and docks, and the garden exhibited such a rank plantation
• 2:55:39
  Speaker 1: of weeds as I had never seen before. The window
• 2:55:42
  Speaker 1: shutters were falling in pieces, the sashes broken, and owls
• 2:55:45
  Speaker 1: and jackdaws had taken possession of the chimney's dot. The
• 2:55:49
  Speaker 1: prospect within was still more dreary. All was dark and
• 2:55:53
  Speaker 1: damp and dirty beyond description. The rain penetrated in several
• 2:55:57
  Speaker 1: parts of the roof. In some apartments, the very floors
• 2:56:00
  Speaker 1: had given way. The hangings were parted from the walls
• 2:56:02
  Speaker 1: and shaking in moldy remnants. The glasses were dropping out
• 2:56:06
  Speaker 1: of their frames. Though family pictures were covered with dust,
• 2:56:10
  Speaker 1: and all the chairs and tables worm eaten. In crazy Dot,
• 2:56:13
  Speaker 1: there was not a bed in the house that could
• 2:56:15
  Speaker 1: be used except one old fashioned machine with a high
• 2:56:18
  Speaker 1: gilt tester, and fringed curtains of yellow mohair, which had
• 2:56:21
  Speaker 1: been for ought I know, two centuries in the family Dot.
• 2:56:25
  Speaker 1: In short, there was no furniture, but the utensils of
• 2:56:28
  Speaker 1: the kitchen and the cellar afforded nothing but a few
• 2:56:31
  Speaker 1: empty butts and barrels that stunk so abominably that I
• 2:56:34
  Speaker 1: would not suffer any body to enter it until I
• 2:56:37
  Speaker 1: had flashed a considerable quantity of gunpowder to qualify the
• 2:56:40
  Speaker 1: foul air within. An old katager and his wife, who
• 2:56:44
  Speaker 1: were hired to lie in the house, had left it
• 2:56:46
  Speaker 1: with precipitation, all edging, among other causes of retreat, that
• 2:56:50
  Speaker 1: they could not sleep for frightful noises, and that my
• 2:56:53
  Speaker 1: poor brother certainly walked after his death. Dot, in a word,
• 2:56:57
  Speaker 1: the house appeared uninhabitable the barn stable and outhouses were
• 2:57:01
  Speaker 1: in ruins, all the fences broken down, and the fields
• 2:57:05
  Speaker 1: lying waste. The farmer who kept the key never dreamed
• 2:57:09
  Speaker 1: I had any intention to live upon the spot. He
• 2:57:11
  Speaker 1: rented a farm of sixty pounds, and his lease was
• 2:57:14
  Speaker 1: just expiring. Dot. He had formed a scheme of being
• 2:57:18
  Speaker 1: appointed bailiff to the estate, and of converting the house
• 2:57:21
  Speaker 1: and the adjacent grounds to his own use. Dot. A
• 2:57:25
  Speaker 1: hint of his intention I received from the curate at
• 2:57:27
  Speaker 1: my first arrival. I therefore did not pay much regard
• 2:57:30
  Speaker 1: to what he said by way of discouraging me from
• 2:57:32
  Speaker 1: coming to settle in the country. But I was a
• 2:57:34
  Speaker 1: little startled when he gave me warning that he should
• 2:57:36
  Speaker 1: quit the farm at the expiration of his lease unless
• 2:57:39
  Speaker 1: I could abate considerably in the rent. At this period
• 2:57:42
  Speaker 1: I accidentally became acquainted with a person whose friendship laid
• 2:57:46
  Speaker 1: the foundation of all my prosperity. In the next market town,
• 2:57:50
  Speaker 1: I chanced to dine at an inn with a mister Wilson,
• 2:57:53
  Speaker 1: who was lately come to settle in the neighborhood. Dot.
• 2:57:55
  Speaker 1: He had been lieutenant of a man of war, but
• 2:57:59
  Speaker 1: quitted the sea, and so undiscussed and married the only
• 2:58:02
  Speaker 1: daughter of Farmer Bland, who lives in this parish and
• 2:58:04
  Speaker 1: has acquired a good fortune in the way of husbandry. Dot.
• 2:58:07
  Speaker 1: Wilson is one of the best natured men I ever knew, Brave, frank, obliging,
• 2:58:13
  Speaker 1: and ingenuous. He liked my conversation. I was charmed with
• 2:58:17
  Speaker 1: his liberal manner, and acquaintance immediately commenced, and this was
• 2:58:21
  Speaker 1: soon improved into a friendship without reserve. Dot. There are
• 2:58:24
  Speaker 1: characters which, like similar particles of matter, strongly attract each other. Dot.
• 2:58:29
  Speaker 1: He forthwith introduced me to his father in law, Farmer Bland,
• 2:58:34
  Speaker 1: who was well acquainted with every acre of my estate.
• 2:58:37
  Speaker 1: Of consequence, well qualified to advise me on this occasion.
• 2:58:40
  Speaker 1: Finding I was inclined to embrace a country life, and
• 2:58:44
  Speaker 1: even to amuse myself with the occupation of farming, he
• 2:58:47
  Speaker 1: approved of my design. He gave me to understand that
• 2:58:50
  Speaker 1: all my farms were under let, that the estate was
• 2:58:53
  Speaker 1: capable of great improvement, that there was plenty of chalk
• 2:58:56
  Speaker 1: in the neighborhood, and that my own ground produced excellent
• 2:59:00
  Speaker 1: e merely for MINERDOT. With respect to the farm which
• 2:59:03
  Speaker 1: was like to fall into my hands, he said he
• 2:59:05
  Speaker 1: would willingly take it at the present rent, but at
• 2:59:07
  Speaker 1: the same time owned that if I would expend two
• 2:59:10
  Speaker 1: hundred pounds in enclosure, it would be worth more than
• 2:59:12
  Speaker 1: double the sum. Thus encouraged, I began the execution of
• 2:59:17
  Speaker 1: my scheme without further delay, and plunged into a sea
• 2:59:20
  Speaker 1: of expense, though I had no fund in reserve, and
• 2:59:23
  Speaker 1: the whole produce of the estate did not exceed three
• 2:59:25
  Speaker 1: hundred pounds a year. In one week my house was
• 2:59:28
  Speaker 1: made weather tight and thoroughly cleansed from top to bottom.
• 2:59:32
  Speaker 1: Then it was well ventilated by throwing all the doors
• 2:59:35
  Speaker 1: and windows open, and making blazing fires of wood in
• 2:59:38
  Speaker 1: every chimney from the kitchen to the garrets. The floors
• 2:59:41
  Speaker 1: were repaired, the sashes new glazed, and out of the
• 2:59:44
  Speaker 1: old furniture of the whole house I made shift to
• 2:59:47
  Speaker 1: fit up a parlor and three chambers in a plain
• 2:59:49
  Speaker 1: yet decent manner. The courtyard was cleared of weeds and rubbish,
• 2:59:54
  Speaker 1: and my friend Wilson charged himself with the dressing of
• 2:59:57
  Speaker 1: the garden. Bricklayers were set at work upon the barn
• 2:59:59
  Speaker 1: and stable, and laborers engaged to restore the fences and
• 3:00:03
  Speaker 1: begin the work of hedging and ditching, under the direction
• 3:00:06
  Speaker 1: of Farmer Bland, at whose recommendation I hired a careful
• 3:00:10
  Speaker 1: hind to lie in the house and keep constant fires
• 3:00:13
  Speaker 1: in the apartments. Having taken these measures, I returned to London,
• 3:00:17
  Speaker 1: where I forthwith sold off my household furniture, and in
• 3:00:21
  Speaker 1: three weeks from my first visit brought my wife hither
• 3:00:24
  Speaker 1: to keep her Christmas Dot. Considering the gloomy season of
• 3:00:28
  Speaker 1: the year, the dreariness of the place, and the decayed
• 3:00:31
  Speaker 1: aspect of our habitation, I was afraid that her resolution
• 3:00:34
  Speaker 1: would sink under the sudden transition from a town life
• 3:00:37
  Speaker 1: to such a melancholy state of rustication. But I was
• 3:00:40
  Speaker 1: agreeably disappointed Dot. She found the reality less uncomfortable than
• 3:00:44
  Speaker 1: the picture I had drawn Dot. By this time, indeed,
• 3:00:48
  Speaker 1: things were mended in appearance. The outhouses had risen out
• 3:00:51
  Speaker 1: of their ruins. The pigeon house was rebuilt and replenished
• 3:00:54
  Speaker 1: by Wilson, who also put my garden in decent order,
• 3:00:57
  Speaker 1: and provided a good stock of poultry, which made an
• 3:01:00
  Speaker 1: agreeable figure in my yard, and the house on the
• 3:01:03
  Speaker 1: whole looked like the habitation of human creatures. Dot. Farmer
• 3:01:08
  Speaker 1: Bland spared me a milch cow for my family and
• 3:01:10
  Speaker 1: an ordinary saddle horse for my servant to go to market.
• 3:01:13
  Speaker 1: At the next town, I hired a country lad for
• 3:01:15
  Speaker 1: a footman. The hind's daughter was my housemaid, and my
• 3:01:18
  Speaker 1: wife had brought a cook maid from London. Such was
• 3:01:22
  Speaker 1: my family when I began housekeeping in this place with
• 3:01:25
  Speaker 1: three hundred pounds in my pocket raised from the sale
• 3:01:28
  Speaker 1: of my superfluous furniture, DOT, I knew we should find
• 3:01:32
  Speaker 1: occupation enough through the day to employ our time, but
• 3:01:35
  Speaker 1: I dreaded the long winter evenings. Yet for those two
• 3:01:38
  Speaker 1: we found a remedy. The curate, who was a single man,
• 3:01:41
  Speaker 1: soon became so naturalized to the family that he generally
• 3:01:45
  Speaker 1: lay in the house, and his company was equally agreeable
• 3:01:48
  Speaker 1: and useful. He was a modest man, a good scholar,
• 3:01:52
  Speaker 1: and perfectly well qualified to instruct me in such country
• 3:01:55
  Speaker 1: matters as I wanted to know. That mister Wilson brought
• 3:01:58
  Speaker 1: his wife to see us, and she became so fond
• 3:02:00
  Speaker 1: of Missus Denison that she said she was never so
• 3:02:03
  Speaker 1: happy as when she enjoyed the benefit of her conversation Dot.
• 3:02:06
  Speaker 1: She was then a fine buxom country Lass exceedingly docile
• 3:02:11
  Speaker 1: and as good natured as her husband, Jack Wilson, so
• 3:02:14
  Speaker 1: that a friendship ensued among the women, which hath continued
• 3:02:17
  Speaker 1: to this day. As for Jack, he hath been my
• 3:02:20
  Speaker 1: constant companion, counselor, and commissary. Dot. I would not for
• 3:02:24
  Speaker 1: a hundred pounds you should leave my house without seeing him. Dot.
• 3:02:27
  Speaker 1: Jack is a universal genius. His talents are really astonishing.
• 3:02:33
  Speaker 1: He is an excellent carpenter, joiner and turner, and a
• 3:02:36
  Speaker 1: cunning artist in iron and brass. Dot He not only
• 3:02:40
  Speaker 1: superintended my economy but also presided over my pastimes. He
• 3:02:44
  Speaker 1: taught me to brew beer, to make sitter perry mead usquebaugh,
• 3:02:49
  Speaker 1: and plague water, to cook several outlandish delicacies such as
• 3:02:52
  Speaker 1: Allah's pepper pots, pillows, chorus, chubobs, and Staffada's. Dot. He
• 3:02:59
  Speaker 1: understands all manner of games, from chest down to chuck farthing,
• 3:03:02
  Speaker 1: sings a good song, plays upon the violin, and dances
• 3:03:06
  Speaker 1: a hornpipe with surprising agility. Dot. He and I walked
• 3:03:10
  Speaker 1: and rode, and hunted and fished together without minding the
• 3:03:14
  Speaker 1: vicissitudes of the weather. And I am persuaded that in
• 3:03:17
  Speaker 1: a raw moist climate like this of England, continual exercise
• 3:03:21
  Speaker 1: is as necessary as food to the preservation of the individual. Dot.
• 3:03:24
  Speaker 1: In the course of two and twenty years, there has
• 3:03:28
  Speaker 1: not been one hour's interruption or abatement in the friendship
• 3:03:31
  Speaker 1: subsisting between Wilson's family and mine, and what is a
• 3:03:34
  Speaker 1: rare instance of good fortune that friendship is continued to
• 3:03:38
  Speaker 1: our children, Dot. His son and mine are nearly of
• 3:03:41
  Speaker 1: the same age and the same disposition. They have been
• 3:03:44
  Speaker 1: bred up together at the same school and college, and
• 3:03:47
  Speaker 1: love each other with the warmest affection. By Wilson's means,
• 3:03:51
  Speaker 1: I likewise formed an acquaintance with a sensible physician who
• 3:03:54
  Speaker 1: lives in the ex market town, and his sister, an
• 3:03:57
  Speaker 1: agreeable old maiden, pasted the Christmas holiday at our house. Meanwhile,
• 3:04:02
  Speaker 1: I began my farming with great eagerness, and that very
• 3:04:05
  Speaker 1: winter planted these groves that please you so much. Dot.
• 3:04:08
  Speaker 1: As for the neighboring gentry, I had no trouble from
• 3:04:12
  Speaker 1: that quarter during my first campaign. They were all gone
• 3:04:15
  Speaker 1: to town before I settled in the country, and by
• 3:04:17
  Speaker 1: the summer I had taken measures to defend myself from
• 3:04:20
  Speaker 1: their attacks. Dot. When a gay equipage came to my gates.
• 3:04:24
  Speaker 1: I was never at home. Those who visited me in
• 3:04:26
  Speaker 1: a modest way I received, and, according to the remarks
• 3:04:30
  Speaker 1: I made on their characters and conversation, either rejected their
• 3:04:33
  Speaker 1: advances or returned their civility. I was in general despised
• 3:04:36
  Speaker 1: among the fashionable company as a low fellow, both in
• 3:04:40
  Speaker 1: breeding and circumstances. Nevertheless, I found a few individuals of
• 3:04:45
  Speaker 1: moderate fortune who gladly adopted my style of living, and
• 3:04:49
  Speaker 1: many others would have acceded to our society had they
• 3:04:51
  Speaker 1: not been prevented by the pride, envy, and ambition of
• 3:04:54
  Speaker 1: their wives and daughters. Dot. Those in times of luxury
• 3:04:59
  Speaker 1: and dissipation are the rocks upon which all the small
• 3:05:02
  Speaker 1: estates in the country are wrecked. I reserved in my
• 3:05:05
  Speaker 1: own hands some acres of ground adjacent to the house
• 3:05:08
  Speaker 1: for making experiments in agriculture, according to the directions of
• 3:05:12
  Speaker 1: Lyle tull Heart to Hammel and others who have written
• 3:05:15
  Speaker 1: on this subject, and qualified their theory with the practical
• 3:05:19
  Speaker 1: observations of Farmer Bland, who was my great master in
• 3:05:23
  Speaker 1: the art of husbandry. Dot. In short, I became enamored
• 3:05:27
  Speaker 1: of a country life and my success greatly exceeded my expectation.
• 3:05:31
  Speaker 1: I drained bogs, burned heath, grubbed up furs and fern.
• 3:05:35
  Speaker 1: I planted cops and willows where nothing else would grow.
• 3:05:38
  Speaker 1: I gradually enclosed all my farms and made such improvements
• 3:05:43
  Speaker 1: that my estate now yields me clear twelve hundred pounds
• 3:05:45
  Speaker 1: a year. All this time, my wife and I have
• 3:05:48
  Speaker 1: enjoyed uninterrupted health and a regular flow of spirits, except
• 3:05:52
  Speaker 1: on a very few occasions, when our cheerfulness was invaded
• 3:05:55
  Speaker 1: by such accidents as are inseparable from the condition of life.
• 3:05:59
  Speaker 1: I lost too children in their infancy by the smallpox,
• 3:06:02
  Speaker 1: so that I have one son only in whom all
• 3:06:05
  Speaker 1: our hopes are centered. Dot. He went yesterday to visit
• 3:06:08
  Speaker 1: a friend with whom he has stayed all night. But
• 3:06:10
  Speaker 1: he will be here to dinner. DOT. I shall this
• 3:06:14
  Speaker 1: day have the pleasure of presenting him to you and
• 3:06:16
  Speaker 1: your family, And I flatter myself you will find him
• 3:06:18
  Speaker 1: not altogether unworthy of our affection. The truth is either
• 3:06:22
  Speaker 1: I am blinded by the partiality of a parent, or
• 3:06:25
  Speaker 1: he is a boy of very amiable character, And yet
• 3:06:28
  Speaker 1: his conduct has given us unspeakable disquiet. That you must
• 3:06:32
  Speaker 1: know we had projected a match between him and a
• 3:06:35
  Speaker 1: gentleman's daughter in the next county, who will, in all
• 3:06:38
  Speaker 1: probability be heiress of a considerable fortune. But it seems
• 3:06:42
  Speaker 1: he had a personal disgust to the alliance. He was
• 3:06:45
  Speaker 1: then at Cambridge and tried to gain time on various pretenses,
• 3:06:49
  Speaker 1: but being pressed in letters by his mother and me
• 3:06:51
  Speaker 1: to give a definitive answer, he fairly gave his tutor
• 3:06:54
  Speaker 1: the slip and disappeared. About eight months ago dot. Before
• 3:06:58
  Speaker 1: he took this rash step, he wrote me a letter
• 3:07:01
  Speaker 1: explaining his objections to the match, and declaring that he
• 3:07:04
  Speaker 1: would keep himself concealed until he should understand that his
• 3:07:07
  Speaker 1: parents would dispense with his contracting an engagement that must
• 3:07:10
  Speaker 1: make him miserable for life. And he prescribed the form
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  Speaker 1: of advertising in a certain newspaper by which he might
• 3:07:17
  Speaker 1: be apprized. Of our sentiments on this subject, you may
• 3:07:20
  Speaker 1: easily conceive how much we were alarmed and afflicted by
• 3:07:23
  Speaker 1: this elopement, which he had made without dropping the least
• 3:07:26
  Speaker 1: hint to his companion, Charles Wilson, who belonged to the
• 3:07:29
  Speaker 1: same college Dot. We resolved to punish him with the
• 3:07:33
  Speaker 1: appearance of neglect in hopes that he would return of
• 3:07:36
  Speaker 1: his own accord. But he maintained his purpose till the
• 3:07:38
  Speaker 1: young lady chose a partner for herself. Then he produced
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  Speaker 1: himself and made his peace by the mediation of Wilson. DOT.
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  Speaker 1: Suppose we should unite our families by joining him with
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  Speaker 1: your niece, who is one of the most lovely creatures
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  Speaker 1: I ever beheld. Dot. My wife is already as fond
• 3:07:54
  Speaker 1: of her as if she were her own child, and
• 3:07:56
  Speaker 1: I have a presentiment that my son will be captivated
• 3:07:58
  Speaker 1: by her at first sight. Nothing could be more agreeable
• 3:08:02
  Speaker 1: to all our family, said I, than such an alliance.
• 3:08:06
  Speaker 1: But my dear friend Candor obliges me to tell you
• 3:08:09
  Speaker 1: that I am afraid Liddy's heart is not wholly disengaged.
• 3:08:12
  Speaker 1: There is a cursed obstacle. You mean the young stroller
• 3:08:15
  Speaker 1: at Gloucester, said he. You are surprised that I should
• 3:08:18
  Speaker 1: know this circumstance, But you will be more surprised when
• 3:08:21
  Speaker 1: I tell you that stroller is no other than my
• 3:08:24
  Speaker 1: son George Denison. That was the character he assumed in
• 3:08:27
  Speaker 1: his eclipse. I am indeed astonished and overjoyed, cried I,
• 3:08:32
  Speaker 1: and shall be happy beyond expression to see your proposal
• 3:08:35
  Speaker 1: take effect. He then gave me to understand that the
• 3:08:39
  Speaker 1: young gentleman, at his emerging from concealment, had disclosed his
• 3:08:42
  Speaker 1: passion for Miss Melford, the niece of mister Bramble of Monmouthshire.
• 3:08:47
  Speaker 1: Though mister Denison little dreamed that this was his old
• 3:08:50
  Speaker 1: friend Matthew Lloyd, he nevertheless furnished his son with proper credentials,
• 3:08:54
  Speaker 1: and he had been at Bath, London and many other
• 3:08:57
  Speaker 1: places in quest of us to make himself and his
• 3:08:59
  Speaker 1: pretension known. The bad success of his inquiry had such
• 3:09:03
  Speaker 1: an effect upon his spirits that immediately at his return
• 3:09:06
  Speaker 1: he was seized with a dangerous fever, which overwhelmed his
• 3:09:09
  Speaker 1: parents with terror and affliction. But he was now happily recovered,
• 3:09:13
  Speaker 1: though still weak and disconsolate. My nephew, joining us in
• 3:09:17
  Speaker 1: our walk, I informed him of these circumstances, with which
• 3:09:20
  Speaker 1: he was wonderfully pleased. He declared he would promote the
• 3:09:24
  Speaker 1: match to the utmost of his power, and that he
• 3:09:26
  Speaker 1: longed to embrace young mister Denison as his friend and brother.
• 3:09:29
  Speaker 1: Dot mean while the father went to desire his wife
• 3:09:33
  Speaker 1: to communicate this discovery. Gradually to Liddy that her delicate
• 3:09:37
  Speaker 1: nerves might not suffer too sudden a shock. And I
• 3:09:39
  Speaker 1: imparted the particulars to my sister Tabby, who expressed some surprise,
• 3:09:44
  Speaker 1: not altogether unmixed, I believe, with an emotion of envy,
• 3:09:48
  Speaker 1: for though she could have no objection to an alliance
• 3:09:51
  Speaker 1: at once so honorable and advantageous, she hesitated in giving
• 3:09:55
  Speaker 1: her consent, on pretense of the youth and inexperience of
• 3:09:58
  Speaker 1: the parties. At length, however, she acquiesced in consequence of
• 3:10:02
  Speaker 1: having consulted with Captain les Mahego. Mister Denison took care
• 3:10:06
  Speaker 1: to be in the way when his son arrived at
• 3:10:08
  Speaker 1: the gate, and, without giving him time or opportunity to
• 3:10:11
  Speaker 1: make any inquiry about the strangers, brought him upstairs to
• 3:10:15
  Speaker 1: be presented to mister Lloyd and his family. The first
• 3:10:17
  Speaker 1: person he saw when he entered the room was Lyddy, who,
• 3:10:21
  Speaker 1: notwithstanding all her preparation, stood trembling in the utmost confusion
• 3:10:26
  Speaker 1: at sight of this object. He was fixed motionless to
• 3:10:29
  Speaker 1: the floor, and, gazing at her with the utmost eagerness
• 3:10:32
  Speaker 1: of astonishment, exclaimed, sacred Heaven, what is this ha? Wherefore?
• 3:10:39
  Speaker 1: Here his speech failing, he stood, straining his eyes. In
• 3:10:42
  Speaker 1: the most emphatic silence. George said his father, this is
• 3:10:46
  Speaker 1: my friend. Mister Lloyd roused at this intimation, he turned
• 3:10:50
  Speaker 1: and received my salute when I said, young gentlemen, if
• 3:10:53
  Speaker 1: you had trusted me with your secret at our last meeting,
• 3:10:56
  Speaker 1: we should have parted upon better terms. Before he could
• 3:11:00
  Speaker 1: make any answer, Jerry came round and stood before him
• 3:11:03
  Speaker 1: with open arms. Dot At first, he started and changed color,
• 3:11:07
  Speaker 1: but after a short pause he rushed into his embrace,
• 3:11:10
  Speaker 1: and they hugged one another as if they had been
• 3:11:12
  Speaker 1: intimate friends from their infancy. Then he paid his respects
• 3:11:15
  Speaker 1: to missus Tabitha, and advancing to Lyddy. Is it possible,
• 3:11:20
  Speaker 1: cried he, that my senses do not play me false,
• 3:11:23
  Speaker 1: that I see Miss Melford under my father's roof, that
• 3:11:26
  Speaker 1: I am permitted to speak to her without giving offense,
• 3:11:29
  Speaker 1: and that her relations have honored me with their countenance
• 3:11:32
  Speaker 1: and protection. Lyddy blushed and trembled and faltered. To be sure, sir,
• 3:11:37
  Speaker 1: said she. It is a very surprising circumstance, a great
• 3:11:41
  Speaker 1: a providential. I really know not what I say, but
• 3:11:45
  Speaker 1: I beg you will think I have said what's agreeable,
• 3:11:48
  Speaker 1: missus Denison, interposing, said, compose yourselves, my dear children. Your
• 3:11:53
  Speaker 1: mutual happiness shall be our peculiar care. The son, going
• 3:11:57
  Speaker 1: up to his mother, kissed one hand, my niece bathed
• 3:12:00
  Speaker 1: the other with her tears, and the good old lady
• 3:12:03
  Speaker 1: pressed them both in their turns to her breast. Ut
• 3:12:05
  Speaker 1: The lovers were too much affected to get rid of
• 3:12:09
  Speaker 1: their embarrassment for one day, But the scene was much
• 3:12:11
  Speaker 1: enlivened by the arrival of Jack Wilson, who brought, as
• 3:12:15
  Speaker 1: usual some game of his own killing. His honest countenance
• 3:12:18
  Speaker 1: was a good letter of recommendation. I received him like
• 3:12:22
  Speaker 1: a dear friend after a long separation, and I could
• 3:12:25
  Speaker 1: not help wondering to see him shake Jerry by the
• 3:12:27
  Speaker 1: hand as an old acquaintance. They had indeed been acquainted
• 3:12:31
  Speaker 1: some days in consequence of a diverting incident, which I
• 3:12:34
  Speaker 1: shall explain at meeting. That same night, a consultation was
• 3:12:38
  Speaker 1: held upon the concerns of the lovers. When the match
• 3:12:41
  Speaker 1: was formally agreed to, and all the marriage articles were
• 3:12:44
  Speaker 1: settled without the least dispute, my nephew and I promised
• 3:12:47
  Speaker 1: to make Liddy's fortune five thousand pounds. Mister Denison declared
• 3:12:52
  Speaker 1: he would make over one half of his estate immediately
• 3:12:55
  Speaker 1: to his son, and that his daughter in law should
• 3:12:57
  Speaker 1: be secured in a jointure of four hundred. Tabby posed that,
• 3:13:01
  Speaker 1: considering their youth, they should undergo one year at least
• 3:13:04
  Speaker 1: of probation before the indissoluble knot should be tied. But
• 3:13:08
  Speaker 1: the young gentleman being very impatient and importunate, and the
• 3:13:11
  Speaker 1: scheme implying that the young couple should live in the
• 3:13:13
  Speaker 1: house under the wings of his parents, we resolved to
• 3:13:16
  Speaker 1: make them happy without further delay. As the law requires
• 3:13:20
  Speaker 1: that the parties should be some weeks resident in the parish,
• 3:13:23
  Speaker 1: we shall stay here till the ceremony is performed. That
• 3:13:26
  Speaker 1: mister Lismahago requests that he may take the benefit of
• 3:13:29
  Speaker 1: the same occasion, so that next Sunday the bands will
• 3:13:32
  Speaker 1: be published for all four together. Dot By doubt I
• 3:13:35
  Speaker 1: shall not be able to pass my Christmas with you
• 3:13:38
  Speaker 1: at Brambleton Hall. Dot. Indeed, I am so agreeably situated
• 3:13:42
  Speaker 1: in this place that I have no desire to shift
• 3:13:44
  Speaker 1: my quarters. And I foresee that when the day of
• 3:13:47
  Speaker 1: separation comes, there will be abundance of sorrow on all sides. DOT.
• 3:13:51
  Speaker 1: In the meantime we must make the most of those
• 3:13:55
  Speaker 1: blessings which Heaven bestows Dot. Considering how you are tethered
• 3:13:59
  Speaker 1: by your profession, I cannot hope to see you so
• 3:14:01
  Speaker 1: far from home. Yet the distance does not exceed a
• 3:14:04
  Speaker 1: summer day's journey. And Charles Denison, who desires to be
• 3:14:07
  Speaker 1: remembered to you, would be rejoiced to see his old competator.
• 3:14:11
  Speaker 1: But as I am now stationary, I expect regular answers
• 3:14:15
  Speaker 1: to the epistles of yours, invariably Matt Bramble October eleventh
• 3:14:20
  Speaker 1: to Sir Watkin Phillips bart at Oxon, Dear w A
• 3:14:26
  Speaker 1: t every day is now big with incident and discovery.
• 3:14:29
  Speaker 1: Young mister Denison proves to be no other than that
• 3:14:32
  Speaker 1: identical person whom I have execrated so long under the
• 3:14:35
  Speaker 1: name of Wilson. He had alope from college at Cambridge
• 3:14:38
  Speaker 1: to avoid a match that he detested, and acted in
• 3:14:41
  Speaker 1: different parts of the country as a stroller until the
• 3:14:44
  Speaker 1: lady in question made choice of a husband for herself.
• 3:14:47
  Speaker 1: Then he returned to his father and disclosed his passion
• 3:14:50
  Speaker 1: for Lyddy, which met with the approbation of his parents,
• 3:14:53
  Speaker 1: though the father little imagined that mister Bramble was his
• 3:14:56
  Speaker 1: old companion. Matthew Lloyd, the young gentleman, being power to
• 3:15:00
  Speaker 1: make honorable proposals to my uncle and me, had been
• 3:15:03
  Speaker 1: in search of us all over England without effect. And
• 3:15:06
  Speaker 1: he it was whom I had seen pass on horseback
• 3:15:08
  Speaker 1: by the window of the inn where I stood with
• 3:15:10
  Speaker 1: my sister. But he little dreamed that we were in
• 3:15:13
  Speaker 1: the house. As for the real mister Wilson, whom I
• 3:15:16
  Speaker 1: called forth to combat by mistake, he is the neighbor
• 3:15:19
  Speaker 1: and intimate friend of old mister Denison, and this connection
• 3:15:22
  Speaker 1: had suggested to the son the idea of taking that
• 3:15:25
  Speaker 1: name while he remained in obscurity. You may easily conceive
• 3:15:29
  Speaker 1: what pleasure I must have felt on discovering that the
• 3:15:31
  Speaker 1: honor of our family was in no danger from the
• 3:15:33
  Speaker 1: conduct of a sister whom I loved with uncommon affection,
• 3:15:36
  Speaker 1: that instead of debasing her sentiments and views to a
• 3:15:39
  Speaker 1: wretched stroller, she had really captivated the heart of a gentleman,
• 3:15:44
  Speaker 1: her equal in rank and superior in fortune, And that,
• 3:15:47
  Speaker 1: as his parents approved of his attachment, I was on
• 3:15:49
  Speaker 1: the eve of acquiring a brother in law so worthy
• 3:15:52
  Speaker 1: of my friendship and esteem. George Denison is, without all question,
• 3:15:57
  Speaker 1: one of the most accomplished young fellows in England. His
• 3:16:01
  Speaker 1: person is at once elegant and manly, and his understanding
• 3:16:04
  Speaker 1: highly cultivated. Though his spirit is lofty, his heart is kind,
• 3:16:09
  Speaker 1: and his manner so engaging as to command veneration and
• 3:16:12
  Speaker 1: love even from malice and indifference. When I weigh my
• 3:16:16
  Speaker 1: own character with his, I am ashamed to find myself
• 3:16:19
  Speaker 1: so light in the balance. But the comparison excites no envy.
• 3:16:23
  Speaker 1: I propose him as a model for imitation. I have
• 3:16:26
  Speaker 1: endeavored to recommend myself to his friendship and hope I
• 3:16:29
  Speaker 1: have already found a place in his affection. I am, however,
• 3:16:33
  Speaker 1: mortified to refect what flagrant injustice we every day commit,
• 3:16:37
  Speaker 1: and what absurd judgment we form in viewing objects through
• 3:16:40
  Speaker 1: the falsifying mediums of prejudice and passion. Had you asked
• 3:16:44
  Speaker 1: me a few days ago the picture of Wilson the Player,
• 3:16:47
  Speaker 1: I should have drawn a portrait very unlike the real
• 3:16:50
  Speaker 1: person and character of George Denison. Without all doubt, the
• 3:16:54
  Speaker 1: greatest advantage acquired in traveling and perusing mankind in the
• 3:16:57
  Speaker 1: original is that of dispelling those shameful clouds that darken
• 3:17:01
  Speaker 1: the faculties of the mind, preventing it from judging with
• 3:17:03
  Speaker 1: candor and precision. The real Wilson is a great original
• 3:17:07
  Speaker 1: and the best tempered, companionable man I ever knew. I
• 3:17:11
  Speaker 1: question if ever he was angry or low spirited in
• 3:17:14
  Speaker 1: his life. He makes no pretensions to letters, but he
• 3:17:18
  Speaker 1: is an adept in everything else that can be either
• 3:17:20
  Speaker 1: useful or entertaining. Among other qualifications, he is a complete sportsman,
• 3:17:25
  Speaker 1: and counted the best shot in the county. He and
• 3:17:29
  Speaker 1: Denison and liz Mahego and I, attended by Clinker, went
• 3:17:32
  Speaker 1: a shooting yesterday and made a great havoc among the partridges.
• 3:17:36
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow we shall take the field against the woodcocks and snipes.
• 3:17:40
  Speaker 1: In the evening we dance and sing or play at
• 3:17:43
  Speaker 1: commerce loo and quadrille. Mister Denison is an elegant poet,
• 3:17:48
  Speaker 1: and has written some detached pieces on the subject of
• 3:17:51
  Speaker 1: his passion for Liddy, which must be very flattering to
• 3:17:53
  Speaker 1: the vanity of a young woman. Perhaps he is one
• 3:17:56
  Speaker 1: of the greatest theatrical geniuses that ever appeared. He sometimes
• 3:18:00
  Speaker 1: entertains us with reciting favorite speeches from our best plays.
• 3:18:04
  Speaker 1: We are resolved to convert the Great Hall into a
• 3:18:07
  Speaker 1: theater and get up the beaux stratagem without delay. I
• 3:18:10
  Speaker 1: think I shall make no contemptible figure in the character
• 3:18:13
  Speaker 1: of Scrubb, and Liz Machegel will be very great in
• 3:18:15
  Speaker 1: Captain Gibbett Wilson undertakes to entertain the country people with
• 3:18:20
  Speaker 1: harlequin skeleton, for which he has got a jacket ready
• 3:18:22
  Speaker 1: painted with his own hand. Our society is really enchanting,
• 3:18:28
  Speaker 1: even the severity of Liz Machegel relaxes, and the vinegar
• 3:18:31
  Speaker 1: of missus Tabby is remarkably dulcified, ever since it was
• 3:18:34
  Speaker 1: agreed that she should take precedency of her niece in
• 3:18:37
  Speaker 1: being first noosed. For you must know the day is
• 3:18:40
  Speaker 1: fixed for Liddy's marriage, and the bands for both couples
• 3:18:43
  Speaker 1: have been already once published in the parish church. The
• 3:18:47
  Speaker 1: Captain earnestly begged that one trouble might serve for all,
• 3:18:50
  Speaker 1: and Tabitha assented with a vile affectation of reluctance. Her Andamorado,
• 3:18:55
  Speaker 1: who came hither very slenderly equipped, has sent for his
• 3:18:58
  Speaker 1: baggage to London, which in all probability will not arrive
• 3:19:02
  Speaker 1: in time for the wedding, but it is of no
• 3:19:04
  Speaker 1: great consequence, as everything is to be transacted with the
• 3:19:08
  Speaker 1: utmost privacy. Meanwhile, directions are given for making out the
• 3:19:12
  Speaker 1: contracts of marriage, which are very favorable for both females.
• 3:19:16
  Speaker 1: Liddy will be secured in a good jointure, and her
• 3:19:19
  Speaker 1: aunt will remain mistress of her own fortune, except one
• 3:19:22
  Speaker 1: half of the interest, which her husband shall have a
• 3:19:24
  Speaker 1: right to enjoy for his natural life. I think this
• 3:19:27
  Speaker 1: is as little in conscience as can be done for
• 3:19:29
  Speaker 1: a man who yokes with such a partner for life.
• 3:19:32
  Speaker 1: These expectants seem to be so happy that if mister
• 3:19:35
  Speaker 1: Denison had an agreeable daughter, I believe I should be
• 3:19:38
  Speaker 1: for making the third couple in this country dance. The
• 3:19:41
  Speaker 1: humor seems to be infectious for Clinker Alias Lloyd has
• 3:19:45
  Speaker 1: a month's mind to play the fool in the same
• 3:19:48
  Speaker 1: fashion with missus Winnifred Jenkins. He has even sounded me
• 3:19:52
  Speaker 1: on the subject, but I have given him no encouragement
• 3:19:55
  Speaker 1: to prosecute this scheme. I told him I thought he
• 3:19:58
  Speaker 1: might do better, as there was no one gains nor promise,
• 3:20:01
  Speaker 1: subsisting that I did not know what designs my uncle
• 3:20:03
  Speaker 1: might have formed for his advantage. But I was of
• 3:20:06
  Speaker 1: opinion that he should not at present run the risque
• 3:20:10
  Speaker 1: of disobliging him by any premature application of this nature.
• 3:20:14
  Speaker 1: Honest Humphrey protested he would suffer death sooner than do
• 3:20:17
  Speaker 1: or say anything that should give offense to the Squire.
• 3:20:19
  Speaker 1: But he owned he had a kindness for the young woman,
• 3:20:22
  Speaker 1: and had reason to think she looked upon him with
• 3:20:24
  Speaker 1: a favorable eye. That he considered this mutual manifestation of
• 3:20:28
  Speaker 1: good will as an engagement understood which ought to be
• 3:20:31
  Speaker 1: binding to the conscience of an honest man. And he
• 3:20:34
  Speaker 1: hoped that a squire and I would be of the
• 3:20:35
  Speaker 1: same opinion when we should be at leisure to bestow
• 3:20:38
  Speaker 1: any thought about the matter. I believe he is in
• 3:20:40
  Speaker 1: the right, and we shall find time to take his
• 3:20:43
  Speaker 1: case into consideration. You see, we are fixed for some
• 3:20:46
  Speaker 1: weeks at least, and as you have had a long respite,
• 3:20:49
  Speaker 1: I hope you will begin immediately to discharge the arrears
• 3:20:51
  Speaker 1: due to your Affectionate J. Melford October fourteenth to Miss
• 3:20:56
  Speaker 1: Letitia Willis at Gloucester, My dear dear Letty. Never did
• 3:21:01
  Speaker 1: I sit down to write in such agitation as I
• 3:21:03
  Speaker 1: now feel. In the course of a few days, we
• 3:21:06
  Speaker 1: have met with a number of incidents so wonderful and
• 3:21:08
  Speaker 1: interesting that all my ideas are thrown into confusion and perplexity.
• 3:21:13
  Speaker 1: You must not expect either method or coherence in what
• 3:21:15
  Speaker 1: I am going to relate, my dearest willis since my
• 3:21:19
  Speaker 1: last The aspect of affairs is totally changed, and so changed.
• 3:21:25
  Speaker 1: But I would fain give you a regular detail. In
• 3:21:27
  Speaker 1: passing a river about eight days ago, our coach was overturned,
• 3:21:31
  Speaker 1: and some of us narrowly escaped with life. My uncle
• 3:21:34
  Speaker 1: had well nigh perished. O Heaven, I cannot reflect upon
• 3:21:38
  Speaker 1: that circumstance without horror, should have lost my best friend,
• 3:21:42
  Speaker 1: my father and protector. But for the resolution and activity
• 3:21:45
  Speaker 1: of his servant, Humphrey Clinker, whom providence really seems to
• 3:21:48
  Speaker 1: have placed near him for the necessity of this occasion.
• 3:21:50
  Speaker 1: Dot I would not be thought superstitious, But surely he
• 3:21:55
  Speaker 1: acted from a stronger impulse than common fidelity. Was it
• 3:21:59
  Speaker 1: not the void of nature that loudly called upon him
• 3:22:02
  Speaker 1: to save the life of his own father? For zero
• 3:22:05
  Speaker 1: letty it was discovered that Humphrey Clinker was my uncle's
• 3:22:08
  Speaker 1: natural son. Almost at the same instant, a gentleman who
• 3:22:13
  Speaker 1: came to offer us his assistance and invite us to
• 3:22:15
  Speaker 1: his house turned out to be a very old friend
• 3:22:18
  Speaker 1: of mister Brambleda. His name is mister Denison, one of
• 3:22:21
  Speaker 1: the worthiest men living, and his lady is a perfect
• 3:22:23
  Speaker 1: saint upon earth. They have an only son. Who do
• 3:22:27
  Speaker 1: you think is this only son? O? Letty, O gracious Heaven,
• 3:22:31
  Speaker 1: how my heart palpitates when I tell you that this
• 3:22:34
  Speaker 1: only son of mister Denison's. Is that very identical youth
• 3:22:37
  Speaker 1: who under the name of Wilson has made such ravage
• 3:22:41
  Speaker 1: in my heart? Yes, my dear friend, Wilson and I
• 3:22:45
  Speaker 1: are now lodged in the same house and converse together freely.
• 3:22:48
  Speaker 1: His father approves of his sentiments in my favor. His
• 3:22:51
  Speaker 1: mother loves me with all the tenderness of a parent.
• 3:22:54
  Speaker 1: My uncle, my aunt, and my brother no longer oppose
• 3:22:57
  Speaker 1: my inclinations. On the contrary, they have agreed to make
• 3:23:00
  Speaker 1: us happy without delay, and in three weeks or a month,
• 3:23:05
  Speaker 1: if no unforeseen accident intervenes, your friend, Lydia Melford, will
• 3:23:09
  Speaker 1: have changed her name and condition. I say, if no
• 3:23:12
  Speaker 1: accident intervenes, because such a torrent of success makes me tremble.
• 3:23:16
  Speaker 1: I wish there may not be something treacherous in this
• 3:23:18
  Speaker 1: sudden reconciliation of fortune. I have no merit, I have
• 3:23:22
  Speaker 1: no title to such felicity. Far from enjoying the prospect
• 3:23:26
  Speaker 1: that lies before me, my mind is harassed with a
• 3:23:29
  Speaker 1: continued tumult, made up of hopes and wishes, doubts and apprehensions.
• 3:23:33
  Speaker 1: I can neither eat nor sleep, and my spirits are
• 3:23:35
  Speaker 1: in perpetual flutter dot. I more than ever feel that
• 3:23:38
  Speaker 1: vacancy in my heart which your presence alone can fill. Dot.
• 3:23:42
  Speaker 1: Though mind, in every disquiet, seeks to repose itself on
• 3:23:46
  Speaker 1: the bosom of a friend. And this is such a
• 3:23:48
  Speaker 1: trial as I really know not how to support without
• 3:23:51
  Speaker 1: your company and counsel. I must, therefore, dear Letty, put
• 3:23:55
  Speaker 1: your friendship to the test. I must beg you will
• 3:23:57
  Speaker 1: come and do the last offices of maidenhood to your companion,
• 3:24:00
  Speaker 1: Lydia Melford. This letter goes enclosed in one to our
• 3:24:04
  Speaker 1: worthy Governess from Missus Denison, entreating her to interpose with
• 3:24:08
  Speaker 1: your Mamma, that you may be allowed to favor us
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  Speaker 1: with your company on this occasion, and I flatter myself
• 3:24:13
  Speaker 1: that no material objection can be made to our request.
• 3:24:17
  Speaker 1: The distance from Hence to Gloucester does not exceed one
• 3:24:20
  Speaker 1: hundred miles, and the roads are good. Dot. Mister Clinker
• 3:24:23
  Speaker 1: alias Lloyd, shall be sent over to attend your motions.
• 3:24:27
  Speaker 1: If you step into the post Chaise with your maid
• 3:24:29
  Speaker 1: Betty Barker, at seven in the morning, you will arrive
• 3:24:32
  Speaker 1: by four in the afternoon at the half way house,
• 3:24:35
  Speaker 1: where there is good accommodation. There you shall be met
• 3:24:39
  Speaker 1: by my brother and myself, who will next day conduct
• 3:24:41
  Speaker 1: you to this place, where I am sure you will
• 3:24:44
  Speaker 1: find yourself perfectly at your case in the midst of
• 3:24:46
  Speaker 1: an agreeable society, that, dear Letty, I will take no refusal.
• 3:24:50
  Speaker 1: If you have any friendship, any humanity, you will come. Dot.
• 3:24:54
  Speaker 1: I desire that immediate application may be made to your Mamma,
• 3:24:58
  Speaker 1: and that the moment her permission is obtained, you will
• 3:25:01
  Speaker 1: apprize your ever faithful Lydia Melford, October fourteenth, to missus
• 3:25:05
  Speaker 1: Jermyn at her house in Gloucester. Dear Madam, though I
• 3:25:10
  Speaker 1: was not so fortunate as to be favored with an
• 3:25:12
  Speaker 1: answer to the letter with which I troubled you in
• 3:25:14
  Speaker 1: the spring. I still flatter myself that you retain some
• 3:25:17
  Speaker 1: regard for me and my concerns. I am sure the
• 3:25:20
  Speaker 1: care and tenderness with which I was treated under your
• 3:25:23
  Speaker 1: roof and tuition demand the warmest returns of gratitude and
• 3:25:26
  Speaker 1: affection on my part, and these sentiments I hope I
• 3:25:29
  Speaker 1: shall cherish to my dying day. At present, I think
• 3:25:33
  Speaker 1: it my duty to make you acquainted with the happy
• 3:25:36
  Speaker 1: issue of that indiscretion by which I incurred your displeasure,
• 3:25:38
  Speaker 1: dot Ah, Madam, the slighted Wilson is metamorphosed into George Denison,
• 3:25:44
  Speaker 1: only son and heir of a gentleman whose character is
• 3:25:47
  Speaker 1: second to none in England. As you may understand upon inquiry,
• 3:25:52
  Speaker 1: my guardian, my brother, and I are now in his house,
• 3:25:55
  Speaker 1: and an immediate union of the two families is to
• 3:25:58
  Speaker 1: take place in the persons of the young gentlemen and
• 3:26:00
  Speaker 1: your poor Lydia Melford. Dot You will easily conceive how
• 3:26:04
  Speaker 1: embarrassing this situation must be to a young, inexperienced creature
• 3:26:08
  Speaker 1: like me, of weak nerves and strong apprehensions, and how
• 3:26:11
  Speaker 1: much the presence of a friend and confidant would encourage
• 3:26:14
  Speaker 1: and support me on this occasion. You know that of
• 3:26:18
  Speaker 1: all the young ladies, Miss Willis, was she that possessed
• 3:26:20
  Speaker 1: the greatest share of my confidence and affection, and therefore
• 3:26:24
  Speaker 1: I fervently wish to have the happiness of her company
• 3:26:27
  Speaker 1: at this interesting crisis. Missus Denison, who is the object
• 3:26:31
  Speaker 1: of universal love and esteem, has at my request, written
• 3:26:35
  Speaker 1: to you on this subject, and I now beg leave
• 3:26:38
  Speaker 1: to reinforce her solicitations. My dear Missus Jerman, my ever
• 3:26:43
  Speaker 1: honored governess, Let me conjure you by that fondness which
• 3:26:47
  Speaker 1: once distinguished your favorite Lydia, by that benevolence of heart
• 3:26:51
  Speaker 1: which disposes you to promote the happiness of your fellow
• 3:26:54
  Speaker 1: creatures in general. Lend a favorable ear to my petition,
• 3:26:58
  Speaker 1: and use your influence with Letty's Mamma, that my most
• 3:27:01
  Speaker 1: earnest desire may be gratified. Should I be indulged in
• 3:27:05
  Speaker 1: this particular, I will engage to return her safe, and
• 3:27:09
  Speaker 1: even to accompany her to Gloucester, where, if you will
• 3:27:11
  Speaker 1: give me leave, I will present to you under another name,
• 3:27:15
  Speaker 1: dear Madam, your most affectionate, humble, servant, and penitent Lydia Melford,
• 3:27:19
  Speaker 1: October fourteenth to missus Mary Jones at Brambleton Hall. Oh
• 3:27:25
  Speaker 1: Mary Jones, Mary Jones, I have met with so many accidents,
• 3:27:31
  Speaker 1: surprisals and terrifications that I am in a paipech fantigo,
• 3:27:35
  Speaker 1: and I believe I shall never be my own self again.
• 3:27:39
  Speaker 1: Last week I was dragged out of a river like
• 3:27:41
  Speaker 1: a drowned rat and lost a brand new night cap
• 3:27:44
  Speaker 1: with a sulfur stay hook that cost me a good
• 3:27:47
  Speaker 1: half a crown and an odd shoe of green gallow monkey,
• 3:27:50
  Speaker 1: besides wetting my clothes and tearing my smuck and an
• 3:27:53
  Speaker 1: ugly gash made in the back part of my eye
• 3:27:56
  Speaker 1: by the stump of a tree. To be sure, mister
• 3:27:58
  Speaker 1: Clinker tucked me out of the car, but he left
• 3:28:01
  Speaker 1: me on my back in the water to go to
• 3:28:03
  Speaker 1: the squire. And I might have had a watchy grave
• 3:28:06
  Speaker 1: if a miller had not brought me to the dry land.
• 3:28:08
  Speaker 1: But oh what choppings and changes girl. The player man
• 3:28:13
  Speaker 1: that came after miss Lyddy and frightened me with a
• 3:28:15
  Speaker 1: beard at Bristol Well is now Matthew murphied into a
• 3:28:19
  Speaker 1: fine young gentleman, son and heir of Squire Dollison. We
• 3:28:22
  Speaker 1: are all together in the same house, and all parties
• 3:28:25
  Speaker 1: have agreed to the match, and in a fortnight the
• 3:28:27
  Speaker 1: ceremony will be performed. But this is not the only
• 3:28:31
  Speaker 1: wedding we are to have. Mistress is resolved to have
• 3:28:34
  Speaker 1: the same frolic in the gnom of God last Sunday
• 3:28:38
  Speaker 1: in the parish crutch, if my own ours may be trusted.
• 3:28:41
  Speaker 1: The clerk called the banes of marriage betwixt Opania, lash
• 3:28:44
  Speaker 1: Mahego and tapitha brample spinster. He might as well have
• 3:28:48
  Speaker 1: called her inkle weaver, for she never spun an hank
• 3:28:52
  Speaker 1: of yarn in her life. Young Squire Dollison and Miss
• 3:28:55
  Speaker 1: Lyddy make the second kipple, and there might have been
• 3:28:57
  Speaker 1: a turd, But times are changed. With mister Klint, Oh, Molly,
• 3:29:02
  Speaker 1: what douce think? Mister Clinker is found to be a
• 3:29:05
  Speaker 1: pie blow of our own squire, and his right knom
• 3:29:08
  Speaker 1: is mister Matthew Lloyd thought, God, he knows how that
• 3:29:10
  Speaker 1: can be. And he is now out of livery and
• 3:29:13
  Speaker 1: wears ruffles. But I knew him when he was out
• 3:29:15
  Speaker 1: at elbows and had not a rag to kiver his pistoreros.
• 3:29:19
  Speaker 1: So he need not hold his head so high he is,
• 3:29:21
  Speaker 1: for sertan very humble and compleasant. And Pattis says how
• 3:29:26
  Speaker 1: he has the same regard as before, but that he
• 3:29:28
  Speaker 1: is no longer his own master, and cannot pretend to
• 3:29:31
  Speaker 1: marry without that a squire's consent. He says, he must
• 3:29:34
  Speaker 1: wait with patience and trust to providence and such nonsense.
• 3:29:38
  Speaker 1: But if so be, as how his regard be the same,
• 3:29:40
  Speaker 1: why stand shilly shurely? Why not strike while the iron
• 3:29:44
  Speaker 1: is hot and speak to the squire without loss of time?
• 3:29:48
  Speaker 1: What subjection can that a squire make to a coming together? Thought?
• 3:29:52
  Speaker 1: My father want a gentleman. My mother was an honest woman.
• 3:29:55
  Speaker 1: I didn't come on the wrong side of the blanket. Girl.
• 3:29:58
  Speaker 1: My parents were marred according to the right of Holy
• 3:30:00
  Speaker 1: Mother Crutch in the face of men and angles mark
• 3:30:04
  Speaker 1: that Mary Jones. Mister clinker Lloyd, I would say, had
• 3:30:09
  Speaker 1: best look to his tackle. There be other chaps in
• 3:30:12
  Speaker 1: the market, as the saying is, What would he say
• 3:30:15
  Speaker 1: if I should accept the soot and service of the
• 3:30:17
  Speaker 1: young squire's valley? Mister mac Happy is a gentleman born
• 3:30:21
  Speaker 1: and has been abroad in the wars. He has a
• 3:30:23
  Speaker 1: world of buck larning and speaks French and Ditch and Scotch,
• 3:30:27
  Speaker 1: and all manner of outlandish lingos. To be sure, he's
• 3:30:30
  Speaker 1: a little the worse for the wear, and is much
• 3:30:32
  Speaker 1: given to drink. But then he's good tempered in his liquor,
• 3:30:36
  Speaker 1: and a prudent woman mought wind him about her finger.
• 3:30:39
  Speaker 1: But I have no thoughts of him, I'll assure you.
• 3:30:42
  Speaker 1: I scorn for to do, or to say, or to
• 3:30:44
  Speaker 1: think anything that might give unbreach to mister Lloyd without
• 3:30:48
  Speaker 1: further occasion. But then I have such vapors, Molly, I
• 3:30:51
  Speaker 1: sit and cry by myself, and take ass of Edita,
• 3:30:54
  Speaker 1: and smell to burnt fathers and kindle snuffs, and I
• 3:30:58
  Speaker 1: pray constantly for grease, that I may have a glimpse
• 3:31:01
  Speaker 1: of the new light to shew me the way through
• 3:31:03
  Speaker 1: this wretched vale of tears. And yet I want for
• 3:31:07
  Speaker 1: nothing in this family of love, where every soul is
• 3:31:10
  Speaker 1: so kind and so courteous that one would think they
• 3:31:13
  Speaker 1: are so many saints in haven. Dear Molly, I recommend
• 3:31:17
  Speaker 1: myself to your prayers, being with my service to Saul,
• 3:31:20
  Speaker 1: your ever loving and discounseled friend. Win Jenkins, October fourteenth
• 3:31:27
  Speaker 1: to doctor Lewis, Dear Dick. You cannot imagine what pleasure
• 3:31:31
  Speaker 1: I have in seeing your handwriting after such a long
• 3:31:34
  Speaker 1: cessation on your side of our correspondence. Yet Heaven knows
• 3:31:38
  Speaker 1: I have often seen your handwriting with disgust. I mean
• 3:31:42
  Speaker 1: when it appeared in abbreviations of Apothecary's Latin. I like
• 3:31:46
  Speaker 1: your hint of making interest for the reversion of the
• 3:31:48
  Speaker 1: collector's place for mister Lesmahego, who is much pleased with
• 3:31:51
  Speaker 1: the scheme, and presents you with his compliments and best
• 3:31:54
  Speaker 1: thanks for thinking so kindly of his concerns. The man
• 3:31:57
  Speaker 1: seems to mend upon further acquaintance that harsh reserve, which
• 3:32:02
  Speaker 1: formed a disagreeable husk about his character, begins to peel
• 3:32:06
  Speaker 1: off in the course of our communication. I have great
• 3:32:08
  Speaker 1: hopes that he and Tabby will be as happily paired
• 3:32:11
  Speaker 1: as any two draft animals in the Kingdom, and I
• 3:32:13
  Speaker 1: make no doubt but that he will prove a valuable
• 3:32:15
  Speaker 1: acquisition to our little society. In the article of conversation
• 3:32:20
  Speaker 1: by the fire side and winter, your objection to my
• 3:32:24
  Speaker 1: passing this season of the year at such a distance
• 3:32:26
  Speaker 1: from home would have more weight if I did not
• 3:32:28
  Speaker 1: find myself perfectly at my ease where I am, and
• 3:32:31
  Speaker 1: my health so much improved that I am disposed to
• 3:32:35
  Speaker 1: bid defiance to gout and rheumatism. I begin to think
• 3:32:37
  Speaker 1: I have put myself on the superannuated list too soon
• 3:32:40
  Speaker 1: and absurdly sought for health in the retreats of laziness.
• 3:32:44
  Speaker 1: I am persuaded that all valetudinarians are too sedentary, too regular,
• 3:32:48
  Speaker 1: and too cautious. We should sometimes increase the motion of
• 3:32:51
  Speaker 1: the machine to unclog the wheels of life, and now
• 3:32:55
  Speaker 1: and then take a plunge amidst the waves of excess
• 3:32:58
  Speaker 1: in order to case harden the constitution. I have even
• 3:33:01
  Speaker 1: found a change of company as necessary as a change
• 3:33:04
  Speaker 1: of air, to promote a vigorous circulation of the spirits,
• 3:33:07
  Speaker 1: which is the very essence and criterion of good health.
• 3:33:11
  Speaker 1: Since my last I have been performing the duties of
• 3:33:14
  Speaker 1: friendship that required a great deal of exercise, from which
• 3:33:17
  Speaker 1: I hoped to derive some benefit. Understanding by the greatest
• 3:33:21
  Speaker 1: accident in the world that mister Baynard's wife was dangerously
• 3:33:24
  Speaker 1: ill of a pluridic fever, I borrowed Denison's post chaise
• 3:33:27
  Speaker 1: and went across the country to his habitation attended only
• 3:33:31
  Speaker 1: by Lloyd Quondam Clinker on horseback Dot. As the distance
• 3:33:36
  Speaker 1: is not above thirty miles. I arrived about four in
• 3:33:39
  Speaker 1: the afternoon, and, meeting the physician at the door, was
• 3:33:41
  Speaker 1: informed that his patient had just expired DOT. I was
• 3:33:44
  Speaker 1: instantly seized with a violent emotion, but it was not
• 3:33:47
  Speaker 1: grief DOT though family being in confusion, I ran upstairs
• 3:33:52
  Speaker 1: into the chamber, where indeed they were all assembled DOT.
• 3:33:56
  Speaker 1: The aunt stood wringing her hands in a kind of
• 3:33:58
  Speaker 1: stupefaction of sorrow. But my friend acted all the extravagancies
• 3:34:02
  Speaker 1: of affliction. He held the body in his arms, and
• 3:34:04
  Speaker 1: poured forth such a lamentation that one would have thought
• 3:34:08
  Speaker 1: he had lost the most amiable consort and valuable companion
• 3:34:12
  Speaker 1: upon earth. Affection may certainly exist independent of esteem. Nay,
• 3:34:17
  Speaker 1: the same object may be lovely in one respect and
• 3:34:20
  Speaker 1: detestable in another. The mind has a surprising faculty of
• 3:34:23
  Speaker 1: accommodating and even attaching itself in such a manner by
• 3:34:27
  Speaker 1: dint of use, to things that are in their own
• 3:34:30
  Speaker 1: nature disagreeable and even pernicious, that it cannot bear to
• 3:34:33
  Speaker 1: be delivered from them without reluctance and regret. Baynard was
• 3:34:37
  Speaker 1: so absorbed in his delirium that he did not perceive
• 3:34:40
  Speaker 1: me when I entered, and desired one of the women
• 3:34:43
  Speaker 1: to conduct the ant into her own chamber. Dot At
• 3:34:46
  Speaker 1: the same time, I begged the tutor to withdraw the boy,
• 3:34:49
  Speaker 1: who stood gaping in a corner, very little affected with
• 3:34:52
  Speaker 1: the distress of the Sinda. These steps being taken, I
• 3:34:56
  Speaker 1: waited till the first violence of my friend's transport was abetted.
• 3:35:00
  Speaker 1: Then disengaged him gently from the melancholy object, and led
• 3:35:03
  Speaker 1: him by the hand into another apartment. Though he struggled
• 3:35:06
  Speaker 1: so hard that I was obliged to have recourse to
• 3:35:09
  Speaker 1: the assistance of his valet a chamber. In a few minutes, however,
• 3:35:13
  Speaker 1: he recollected himself, enfolding me in his arms. This cried,
• 3:35:18
  Speaker 1: he is a friendly office. Indeed, I know not how
• 3:35:21
  Speaker 1: you came hither, but I think Heaven sent you to
• 3:35:24
  Speaker 1: prevent my going distracted. O Matthew, I have lost my
• 3:35:29
  Speaker 1: dear Harriet, my poor gentle, tender creature that loved me
• 3:35:33
  Speaker 1: with such warmth and purity of affection, my constant companion
• 3:35:36
  Speaker 1: of twenty years. She's gone. She's gone forever Heaven and
• 3:35:41
  Speaker 1: earth where is she? Death shall not part us? So
• 3:35:46
  Speaker 1: saying he started up and could hardly be withheld from
• 3:35:49
  Speaker 1: returning to the scene we had quitted. You will perceive
• 3:35:52
  Speaker 1: it would have been very absurd for me to argue
• 3:35:54
  Speaker 1: with a man that talked so madly. Do on all
• 3:35:58
  Speaker 1: such occasions, the first torn of passion must be allowed
• 3:36:01
  Speaker 1: to subside gradually. Dot. I endeavored to beguile his attention
• 3:36:04
  Speaker 1: by starting little hints and insinuating other objects of discourse imperceptibly,
• 3:36:09
  Speaker 1: and being exceedingly pleased in my own mind at this event,
• 3:36:13
  Speaker 1: I exerted myself with such an extraordinary flow of spirits
• 3:36:16
  Speaker 1: as was attended with success Dot. In a few hours
• 3:36:19
  Speaker 1: he was calm enough to hear reason and even to
• 3:36:21
  Speaker 1: own that Heaven could not have interposed more effectually to
• 3:36:24
  Speaker 1: rescue him from disgrace, and ruined Dot that he might, not, however,
• 3:36:29
  Speaker 1: relapse into weaknesses for want of company. I passed the
• 3:36:32
  Speaker 1: night in his chamber in a little tent bed brought
• 3:36:35
  Speaker 1: thither on purpose, and well it was I took this precaution,
• 3:36:38
  Speaker 1: for he started up in bed several times, and would
• 3:36:41
  Speaker 1: have played the fool if I had not been present.
• 3:36:44
  Speaker 1: Next day he was in a condition to talk of business,
• 3:36:47
  Speaker 1: and vested me with full authority over his household, which
• 3:36:50
  Speaker 1: I began to exercise without loss of time, though not
• 3:36:53
  Speaker 1: before he knew and approved of the scheme I had
• 3:36:55
  Speaker 1: projected for his advantage DOT. He would have quitted the
• 3:36:58
  Speaker 1: house immediately, But this Reich treat I opposed DOT, far
• 3:37:02
  Speaker 1: from encouraging a temporary disgust which might degenerate into an
• 3:37:06
  Speaker 1: habitual aversion, I resolved, if possible, to attach him more
• 3:37:10
  Speaker 1: than ever to his household gods. I gave directions for
• 3:37:14
  Speaker 1: the funeral to be as private as was consistent with decency.
• 3:37:17
  Speaker 1: I wrote to London that an inventory and estimate might
• 3:37:20
  Speaker 1: be made of the furniture and effects in his town house,
• 3:37:23
  Speaker 1: and gave notice to the landlord that mister Baynard should
• 3:37:26
  Speaker 1: quit the premises At Lady Day. I set a person
• 3:37:29
  Speaker 1: at work to take account of everything in the country house,
• 3:37:32
  Speaker 1: including horses, carriages, and harness. I settled the young gentlemen
• 3:37:36
  Speaker 1: at a boarding school kept by a clergyman in the neighborhood,
• 3:37:39
  Speaker 1: and thither he went without reluctance. As soon as he
• 3:37:42
  Speaker 1: knew that he was to be troubled no more with
• 3:37:44
  Speaker 1: his tutor, whom we dismissed. The aunt continued very sullen
• 3:37:49
  Speaker 1: and never appeared at table, though mister Baynard paid his
• 3:37:52
  Speaker 1: respects to her every day. In her own chamber, there
• 3:37:54
  Speaker 1: also she held conferences with the waiting women and other
• 3:37:57
  Speaker 1: servants of the family. But the moment her niece was interred,
• 3:38:01
  Speaker 1: she went away in a post chaise prepared for that purpose.
• 3:38:05
  Speaker 1: She did not leave the house, however, without giving mister
• 3:38:08
  Speaker 1: Baynard to understand that the wardrobe of her niece was
• 3:38:11
  Speaker 1: the perquisite of her woman. Accordingly, that worthless drab received
• 3:38:14
  Speaker 1: all the clothes, laces, and linen of her deceased mistress,
• 3:38:18
  Speaker 1: to the value of five hundred pounds at a moderate computation.
• 3:38:22
  Speaker 1: The next step I took was to disband that legion
• 3:38:25
  Speaker 1: of supernumerary domestics, who had prayed so long upon the
• 3:38:28
  Speaker 1: vitals of my friend, a parcel of idol drones, so
• 3:38:31
  Speaker 1: intolerably insolent that they even treated their own master with
• 3:38:35
  Speaker 1: the most contemptuous neglect. They had been generally hired by
• 3:38:39
  Speaker 1: his wife according to the recommendation of her woman, and
• 3:38:42
  Speaker 1: these were the only patrons to whom they paid the
• 3:38:44
  Speaker 1: least deference I had therefore uncommon satisfaction in clearing the
• 3:38:49
  Speaker 1: house of these vermin the woman of the deceased, and
• 3:38:52
  Speaker 1: a chambermaid, a valet de chamber, a butler, a French cook,
• 3:38:56
  Speaker 1: a master gardener, two footmen, and a coachman. I paid
• 3:39:00
  Speaker 1: off and turned out of the house, immediately, paying to
• 3:39:03
  Speaker 1: each a month's wages in lieu of warning. Those whom
• 3:39:06
  Speaker 1: I retained consisted of the female cook who had been
• 3:39:09
  Speaker 1: assistant to the frenchman, a housemaid, an old lackey, a postilion,
• 3:39:14
  Speaker 1: and under gardener. Thus I removed at once a huge
• 3:39:17
  Speaker 1: mountain of expense and care from the shoulders of my friend,
• 3:39:20
  Speaker 1: who could hardly believe the evidence of his own senses
• 3:39:23
  Speaker 1: when he found himself so suddenly and so effectually relieved.
• 3:39:28
  Speaker 1: His heart, however, was still subject to vibrations of tenderness,
• 3:39:32
  Speaker 1: which returned at certain intervals, extorting sighs and tears, and
• 3:39:36
  Speaker 1: exclamations of grief and impatience. But these fits grew every
• 3:39:40
  Speaker 1: day less violent and less frequent, till at length his
• 3:39:42
  Speaker 1: reason obtained a complete victory over the infirmities of his nature.
• 3:39:47
  Speaker 1: Upon an accurate inquiry into the state of his affairs,
• 3:39:50
  Speaker 1: I find his debts amount to twenty thousand pounds for
• 3:39:53
  Speaker 1: eighteen thousand pounds, of which some his estate is mortgaged,
• 3:39:56
  Speaker 1: and as he pays five percent interest, and some of
• 3:40:00
  Speaker 1: his farms are unoccupied, he does not receive above two
• 3:40:03
  Speaker 1: hundred pounds a year clear from his lands, over and
• 3:40:06
  Speaker 1: above the interest of his wife's fortune, which produced eight
• 3:40:09
  Speaker 1: hundred pounds annually. For lightning this heavy burthen, I devise
• 3:40:14
  Speaker 1: the following expedient. His wife's jewels, together with his superfluous
• 3:40:19
  Speaker 1: plate and furniture in both houses. His horses and carriages,
• 3:40:22
  Speaker 1: which are already advertised to be sold by auction, will,
• 3:40:26
  Speaker 1: according to the estimate, produce two thousand, five hundred pounds
• 3:40:29
  Speaker 1: in ready money, with which the debt will be immediately
• 3:40:32
  Speaker 1: reduced to eighteen thousand pounds. I have undertaken to find
• 3:40:36
  Speaker 1: him ten thousand pounds at four percent, by which means
• 3:40:39
  Speaker 1: he will save one hundred a year in the article
• 3:40:41
  Speaker 1: of interest, and perhaps we shall be able to borrow
• 3:40:43
  Speaker 1: the other eight thousand on the same terms. According to
• 3:40:47
  Speaker 1: his own scheme of a country life, he says he
• 3:40:49
  Speaker 1: can live comfortably for three hundred pounds a year, but
• 3:40:52
  Speaker 1: as he has a son to educate, we will allow
• 3:40:55
  Speaker 1: him five hundred. Then there will be an accumulating fund
• 3:40:58
  Speaker 1: of seven hundred year principle an interest to pay off
• 3:41:01
  Speaker 1: the encumbrance, and I think we may modestly add three
• 3:41:05
  Speaker 1: hundred on the presumption of new leasing and improving the
• 3:41:09
  Speaker 1: vacant farms, so that in a couple of years I
• 3:41:12
  Speaker 1: suppose there will be above a thousand a year appropriated
• 3:41:15
  Speaker 1: to liquidate a debt of sixteen thousand. We forthwith began
• 3:41:19
  Speaker 1: to class and set apart the articles designed for sale,
• 3:41:22
  Speaker 1: under the direction of an upholder from London, and that
• 3:41:25
  Speaker 1: nobody in the house might be idle. Commenced our reformation
• 3:41:28
  Speaker 1: with out doors as well as within. With Baynard's good leave,
• 3:41:32
  Speaker 1: I ordered the gardener to turn the rivulet into its
• 3:41:35
  Speaker 1: old channel to refresh the fainting Naiads, who had so
• 3:41:38
  Speaker 1: long languished among moldering roots, withered leaves, and dry pebbles.
• 3:41:42
  Speaker 1: The shrubbery is condemned to extirpation, and the pleasure ground
• 3:41:47
  Speaker 1: will be restored to its original use of cornfield and pasture.
• 3:41:50
  Speaker 1: Orders are given for rebuilding the walls of the garden
• 3:41:53
  Speaker 1: at the back of the house, and for planting clumps
• 3:41:55
  Speaker 1: of firs intermingled with beech and chestnut at the east end,
• 3:41:59
  Speaker 1: which is now quite exposed to the surly blasts that
• 3:42:01
  Speaker 1: come from that quarter. All these works being actually begun,
• 3:42:06
  Speaker 1: and the house and auction left to the care and
• 3:42:08
  Speaker 1: management of a reputable attorney, I brought Baynard along with
• 3:42:11
  Speaker 1: me in the chaise, and made him acquainted with Denison,
• 3:42:14
  Speaker 1: whose goodness of heart would not fail to engage his
• 3:42:16
  Speaker 1: esteem and affection. That he is indeed charmed with our
• 3:42:21
  Speaker 1: society in general, and declares that he never saw the
• 3:42:23
  Speaker 1: theory of true pleasure reduced to practice before. I really
• 3:42:27
  Speaker 1: believe it would not be an easy task to find
• 3:42:30
  Speaker 1: such a number of individuals assembled under one roof more
• 3:42:33
  Speaker 1: happy than we are at present. I must tell you, however,
• 3:42:37
  Speaker 1: in confidence, I suspect Tabby of trajiversation. I have been
• 3:42:41
  Speaker 1: so long accustomed to that original that I know all
• 3:42:44
  Speaker 1: the caprices of her heart, and can often perceive her
• 3:42:46
  Speaker 1: designs while they are yet in embryo. She attached herself
• 3:42:50
  Speaker 1: to liz Mahego for no other reason but that she
• 3:42:52
  Speaker 1: despaired of making a more agreeable conquest at present. If
• 3:42:56
  Speaker 1: I am not much mistaken in my observation she would
• 3:42:59
  Speaker 1: gladly convert the widowhood of Baynard to her own advantage. Dot.
• 3:43:02
  Speaker 1: Since he arrived, she has behaved very coldly to the
• 3:43:05
  Speaker 1: Captain and strove to fasten on the other's heart with
• 3:43:08
  Speaker 1: the hooks of overstrained civility. These must be the instinctive
• 3:43:12
  Speaker 1: efforts of her constitution, rather than the effects of any
• 3:43:15
  Speaker 1: deliberate design, For matters are carried to such a length
• 3:43:18
  Speaker 1: with the Lieutenant that she could not retract with any
• 3:43:21
  Speaker 1: regard to conscience or reputation. Besides, she will meet with
• 3:43:25
  Speaker 1: nothing but indifference or aversion on the side of Baynard,
• 3:43:28
  Speaker 1: who has too much sense to think of such a
• 3:43:30
  Speaker 1: partner at any time, and too much delicacy to admit
• 3:43:33
  Speaker 1: a thought of any such connection at the present juncture. Meanwhile,
• 3:43:37
  Speaker 1: I have prevailed upon her to let him have four
• 3:43:40
  Speaker 1: thousand pounds at four percent towards paying off his mortgage.
• 3:43:44
  Speaker 1: Young Denison has agreed that Liddy's fortune shall be appropriated
• 3:43:47
  Speaker 1: to the same purpose on the same terms. Dot his
• 3:43:50
  Speaker 1: father will sell out three thousand pounds stock for his accommodation.
• 3:43:54
  Speaker 1: Farmer Bland has, at the desire of Wilson, undertaken for
• 3:43:58
  Speaker 1: two thousand and I must must make an effort to
• 3:44:00
  Speaker 1: advance what further will be required to take my friend
• 3:44:03
  Speaker 1: out of the hands of the philistins. He is so
• 3:44:06
  Speaker 1: pleased with the improvements made on his estate, which is
• 3:44:09
  Speaker 1: all cultivated like a garden, that he has entered himself
• 3:44:12
  Speaker 1: as a pupil in farming to mister Denison, and resolved
• 3:44:15
  Speaker 1: to attach himself wholly to the practice of husbandry. Everything
• 3:44:19
  Speaker 1: is now prepared for our double wedding. The marriage articles
• 3:44:23
  Speaker 1: for both couples are drawn and executed, and the ceremony
• 3:44:26
  Speaker 1: only waits until the parties shall have been resident in
• 3:44:29
  Speaker 1: the parish, the term prescribed by law. Young Denison betrays
• 3:44:33
  Speaker 1: some symptoms of impatience, but lisz Mahego bears this necessary
• 3:44:37
  Speaker 1: delay with the temper of a philosopher. Dot You must
• 3:44:41
  Speaker 1: know the captain does not stand altogether on the foundation
• 3:44:44
  Speaker 1: of personal merit. Besides his half pay amounting to two
• 3:44:48
  Speaker 1: and forty pounds a year, this indefatigable economist has amassed
• 3:44:52
  Speaker 1: eight hundred pounds, which he has secured in the funds.
• 3:44:56
  Speaker 1: This sum arises partly from his pays running up while
• 3:44:58
  Speaker 1: he remained among the Indians, partly from what he received
• 3:45:01
  Speaker 1: as a consideration for the difference between his full appointment
• 3:45:04
  Speaker 1: and the half pay to which he is now restricted,
• 3:45:07
  Speaker 1: and partly from the profits of a little traffic he
• 3:45:09
  Speaker 1: drove in Peltry during his sattermship among the Miamis. Liddy's
• 3:45:14
  Speaker 1: fears and perplexities have been much assuaged by the company
• 3:45:17
  Speaker 1: of one Miss Willis, who had been her intimate companion
• 3:45:20
  Speaker 1: at the boarding school. Her parents have been earnestly solicited
• 3:45:24
  Speaker 1: to allow her making this friendly visit on such an
• 3:45:26
  Speaker 1: extraordinary occasion, And two days ago she arrived with her mother,
• 3:45:30
  Speaker 1: who did not choose that she should come without a
• 3:45:32
  Speaker 1: proper gouvernante. The young lady is very sprightly, handsome and agreeable,
• 3:45:37
  Speaker 1: and the mother a mighty good sort of a woman,
• 3:45:40
  Speaker 1: so that their coming adds considerably to our enjoyment. But
• 3:45:43
  Speaker 1: we shall have a third couple yoked in the matrimonial chain.
• 3:45:47
  Speaker 1: Mister Clinker Lloyd has made humble remonstrance through the canal
• 3:45:51
  Speaker 1: of my nephew, setting forth the sincere love and affection
• 3:45:54
  Speaker 1: mutually subsisting between him and Missus Winnifred Jenkins, and praying
• 3:45:57
  Speaker 1: my consent to their coming together for life. I would
• 3:46:01
  Speaker 1: have wished that mister Clinker had kept out of this scrape.
• 3:46:04
  Speaker 1: But as the Nymph's happiness is at stake, and she
• 3:46:06
  Speaker 1: has already some fits in the way of despondence, I,
• 3:46:09
  Speaker 1: in order to prevent any tragical catastrophe, have given him
• 3:46:13
  Speaker 1: leave to play the fool in imitation of his betters,
• 3:46:16
  Speaker 1: And I suppose we shall in time have a whole
• 3:46:19
  Speaker 1: litter of his progeny at Brambleton Hall. The fellow is
• 3:46:22
  Speaker 1: stout and lusty, very sober and conscientious, and the Wench
• 3:46:26
  Speaker 1: seems to be as great an enthusiast in love as
• 3:46:28
  Speaker 1: in religion. I wish you would think of employing him
• 3:46:32
  Speaker 1: some other way, that the parish may not be overstocked.
• 3:46:35
  Speaker 1: You know he has been bred a farrier, consequently belongs
• 3:46:38
  Speaker 1: to the faculty, and as he is very docile, I
• 3:46:41
  Speaker 1: make no doubt but with your good instruction he may
• 3:46:44
  Speaker 1: be in a little time qualified to act as a
• 3:46:47
  Speaker 1: welch apothecary. Tabby, who never did a favor with the
• 3:46:51
  Speaker 1: Good Grace, has consented with great reluctance to this match.
• 3:46:56
  Speaker 1: Perhaps it hurts her pride as she now considers Clinker
• 3:46:59
  Speaker 1: in the light of a relation. But I believe her
• 3:47:02
  Speaker 1: objections are of a more selfish nature. She declares she
• 3:47:06
  Speaker 1: cannot think of retaining the wife of Matthew Lloyd in
• 3:47:08
  Speaker 1: the character of a servant, and she foresees that on
• 3:47:11
  Speaker 1: such an occasion the woman will expect some gratification for
• 3:47:14
  Speaker 1: her past services. As for Clinker, exclusive of other considerations,
• 3:47:19
  Speaker 1: he is so trusty, brave, affectionate and alert, and I
• 3:47:23
  Speaker 1: owe him such personal obligations that he merits more than
• 3:47:27
  Speaker 1: all the indulgence that can possibly be shown him by yours.
• 3:47:30
  Speaker 1: Matt Bramble, October twenty sixth to Sir Watkin Phillips bart
• 3:47:37
  Speaker 1: at Oxen, Dear Knight, The fatal knots are now tied,
• 3:47:41
  Speaker 1: the comedy is nearer close, and the curtain is ready
• 3:47:44
  Speaker 1: to drop. But the latter scenes of this act I
• 3:47:47
  Speaker 1: shall recapitulate in order. About a fortnight ago, my uncle
• 3:47:50
  Speaker 1: made an excursion across the country and brought hither a
• 3:47:53
  Speaker 1: particular friend, one mister Baynard, who has just lost his
• 3:47:56
  Speaker 1: wife and was for some time disconsolate, though by all
• 3:48:00
  Speaker 1: accounts he had much more cause for joy than for
• 3:48:03
  Speaker 1: sorrow at this event. That his countenance, however, clears up
• 3:48:07
  Speaker 1: a pace, and he appears to be a person of
• 3:48:09
  Speaker 1: rare accomplishments to But we have received another, still more
• 3:48:12
  Speaker 1: agreeable reinforcement to our company, by the arrival of Miss
• 3:48:16
  Speaker 1: Willis from Gloucester. She was Lyddy's bosom friend at the
• 3:48:19
  Speaker 1: boarding school, and, being earnestly solicited to assist at the nuptials,
• 3:48:24
  Speaker 1: her mother was so obliging as to grant my sister's request,
• 3:48:27
  Speaker 1: and even to come with her in person. Lyddy, accompanied
• 3:48:31
  Speaker 1: by George Denison and Me, gave them the meeting half way,
• 3:48:34
  Speaker 1: and next day conducted them hither in safety. Miss Willis
• 3:48:38
  Speaker 1: is a charming girl, and in point of disposition, an
• 3:48:41
  Speaker 1: agreeable contrast to my sister, who is rather too grave
• 3:48:44
  Speaker 1: and sentimental for my turn of mind. The other is gay, frank,
• 3:48:49
  Speaker 1: a little giddy, and always good humored. She has moreover
• 3:48:54
  Speaker 1: a genteel fortune, is well born, and remarkably handsome, Ah Phillips.
• 3:49:00
  Speaker 1: If these qualities were permanent, if her humor would never change,
• 3:49:04
  Speaker 1: nor her beauties decay, what efforts would I not make?
• 3:49:07
  Speaker 1: But these are idle reflections. My destiny must one day
• 3:49:11
  Speaker 1: be fulfilled. At present we passed the time as agreeably
• 3:49:14
  Speaker 1: as we can DOT. We have got up several farces
• 3:49:18
  Speaker 1: which afforded unspeakable entertainment by the effects they produced among
• 3:49:22
  Speaker 1: the country people who are admitted to all our exhibitions. DOT.
• 3:49:26
  Speaker 1: Two nights ago, Jack Wilson acquired great applause in Harlequins
• 3:49:29
  Speaker 1: Skeleton and liz Mahego surprised us all in the character
• 3:49:32
  Speaker 1: of Pyrota. His long, lank sides and strong marked features
• 3:49:38
  Speaker 1: were all peculiarly adapted to his partner. He appeared with
• 3:49:41
  Speaker 1: a ludicrous stare from which he had discharged all meaning.
• 3:49:44
  Speaker 1: He adopted the impressions of fear and amazement so naturally
• 3:49:48
  Speaker 1: that many of the audience were infected by his looks.
• 3:49:51
  Speaker 1: But when the skeleton held him in chase, his horror
• 3:49:54
  Speaker 1: became most divertingly picturesque, and seemed to endow him with
• 3:49:57
  Speaker 1: such preternatural agility as confounded all all the spectators. It
• 3:50:02
  Speaker 1: was a lively representation of death in pursuit of consumption,
• 3:50:05
  Speaker 1: and had such an effect upon the commonalty that some
• 3:50:08
  Speaker 1: of them shrieked aloud, and others ran out of the
• 3:50:10
  Speaker 1: hall in the utmost consternation. This is not the only
• 3:50:14
  Speaker 1: instance in which the Lieutenant has lately excited our wonder.
• 3:50:18
  Speaker 1: His temper, which had been soured and shriveled by disappointment
• 3:50:21
  Speaker 1: and chagrin, is now swelled out and smooth, like a
• 3:50:24
  Speaker 1: raisin in plump porridge. From being reserved and punctilious, he
• 3:50:29
  Speaker 1: is become easy and obliging. He cracks jokes, laughs and
• 3:50:34
  Speaker 1: banters with the most facetious familiarity, and in a word,
• 3:50:38
  Speaker 1: enters into all our schemes of merriment and pastime. The
• 3:50:41
  Speaker 1: other day his baggage arrived in the wagon from London,
• 3:50:44
  Speaker 1: contained in two large trunks and a long deal box,
• 3:50:47
  Speaker 1: not unlike a coffin. The trunks were filled with his wardrobe,
• 3:50:51
  Speaker 1: which he displayed for the entertainment of the company, and
• 3:50:53
  Speaker 1: he freely owned that it consisted chiefly of the Opmaspolia
• 3:50:57
  Speaker 1: taken in battle. What he selected for his wedding suit
• 3:51:01
  Speaker 1: was a tarnished white cloth faced with blue velvet embroidered
• 3:51:04
  Speaker 1: with silver. But he valued himself most upon a ty periwig,
• 3:51:08
  Speaker 1: in which he had made his first appearance as a
• 3:51:10
  Speaker 1: lawyer above thirty years ago. This machine had been in
• 3:51:14
  Speaker 1: Buckle ever since, and now all the servants in the
• 3:51:16
  Speaker 1: family were employed to frizz it out for the occasion,
• 3:51:19
  Speaker 1: which was yesterday celebrated at the parish church. George Denison
• 3:51:24
  Speaker 1: and his bride were distinguished by nothing extraordinary in their apparel.
• 3:51:28
  Speaker 1: His eyes lightened with eagerness and joy, and she trembled
• 3:51:31
  Speaker 1: with coyness and confusion. My uncle gave her away, and
• 3:51:35
  Speaker 1: her friend Willis supported her during the ceremony, But my
• 3:51:39
  Speaker 1: aunt and her paramour took the paw and formed indeed
• 3:51:43
  Speaker 1: such a pair of originals as I believe all England
• 3:51:46
  Speaker 1: could not parallel. She was dressed in the style of
• 3:51:49
  Speaker 1: seventeen thirty nine, and the day, being cold, put on
• 3:51:53
  Speaker 1: a mantel of green velvet laced with gold, but this
• 3:51:56
  Speaker 1: was taken off by the bridegroom, who threw over her
• 3:51:58
  Speaker 1: shoulders a fur cloak of American sables, valued at fourscore
• 3:52:02
  Speaker 1: guineas a present equally agreeable and unexpected. Thus accoutered, she
• 3:52:07
  Speaker 1: was led up to the altar by mister Denison, who
• 3:52:10
  Speaker 1: did the office of her father lis Mahego advanced in
• 3:52:12
  Speaker 1: a military step, with his French coat, reaching no farther
• 3:52:15
  Speaker 1: than the middle of his thigh, his campaign wig that
• 3:52:18
  Speaker 1: surpasses all description, and a languishing leer upon his countenance,
• 3:52:22
  Speaker 1: in which there seemed to be something arch and ironical.
• 3:52:26
  Speaker 1: The ring which he put upon her finger he had
• 3:52:29
  Speaker 1: concealed till the moment it was used. He now produced
• 3:52:32
  Speaker 1: it with an air of self complacency. It was a
• 3:52:36
  Speaker 1: curious antique set with rose diamonds. He told us afterwards.
• 3:52:40
  Speaker 1: It had been in the family two hundred years, and
• 3:52:42
  Speaker 1: was a present from his grandmother. These circumstances agreeably flattered
• 3:52:47
  Speaker 1: the pride of our aunt Tabitha, which had already found
• 3:52:49
  Speaker 1: uncommon gratification in the captain's generosity. For he had, in
• 3:52:53
  Speaker 1: the morning presented my uncle with a fine bear skin
• 3:52:56
  Speaker 1: and a Spanish fowling piece, and me with a case
• 3:52:59
  Speaker 1: of pistols curiously mounted with silver. At the same time
• 3:53:03
  Speaker 1: he gave Missus Jenkins an Indian purse made of silk grass,
• 3:53:07
  Speaker 1: containing twenty crown pieces. You must know, this young lady,
• 3:53:11
  Speaker 1: with the assistance of mister Lloyd, formed the third couple
• 3:53:14
  Speaker 1: who Yesterday's sacrificed to Hymen. I wrote to you in
• 3:53:18
  Speaker 1: my last that he had recourse to my mediation, which
• 3:53:21
  Speaker 1: I employed successfully with my uncle. But Missus Tabitha held
• 3:53:25
  Speaker 1: out till the love sick Jenkins had two fits of
• 3:53:27
  Speaker 1: the mother. Then she relented, and those two cooing turtles
• 3:53:31
  Speaker 1: were caged for life. Our aunt made an effort of
• 3:53:34
  Speaker 1: generosity in furnishing the bride with her superfluities of clothes
• 3:53:37
  Speaker 1: and linen, and her example was followed by my sister.
• 3:53:40
  Speaker 1: Nor did mister Bramble and I neglect her on this occasion.
• 3:53:44
  Speaker 1: It was indeed a day of peace offering dot Mister
• 3:53:49
  Speaker 1: Denison insisted upon Liddy's accepting two bank notes of one
• 3:53:52
  Speaker 1: hundred pounds each as pocket money, and his lady gave
• 3:53:55
  Speaker 1: her a diamond necklace of double that value. There was,
• 3:53:59
  Speaker 1: besides a mutual exchange of tokens among the individuals of
• 3:54:03
  Speaker 1: the two families, thus happily united, as George Denison and
• 3:54:07
  Speaker 1: his partner were judged in proper objects of mirth. Jack
• 3:54:10
  Speaker 1: Wilson had resolved to execute some jokes on lis Mahego,
• 3:54:13
  Speaker 1: and after supper, began to ply him with bumpers when
• 3:54:16
  Speaker 1: the ladies had retired, but the captain, perceiving his drift,
• 3:54:20
  Speaker 1: begged for quarter, alledging that the adventure in which he
• 3:54:23
  Speaker 1: had engaged was a very serious matter, and that it
• 3:54:26
  Speaker 1: would be more the part of a good Christian to
• 3:54:28
  Speaker 1: pray that he might be strengthened, than to impede his
• 3:54:31
  Speaker 1: endeavors to finish the adventure. Dot. He was spared accordingly
• 3:54:34
  Speaker 1: and permitted to ascend a nuptial couch with all his
• 3:54:37
  Speaker 1: senses about him dot. There he and his consort sat
• 3:54:41
  Speaker 1: in state, like Saturn and Sibylly, while the benediction posset
• 3:54:45
  Speaker 1: was drank and a cake being broken over the head
• 3:54:47
  Speaker 1: of Missus Tabitha lis Machego. The fragments were distributed among
• 3:54:51
  Speaker 1: the bystanders according to the custom of the anti Endt Britons,
• 3:54:54
  Speaker 1: on the supposition that every person who eat of this
• 3:54:56
  Speaker 1: hallowed cake should that knight have a vision of the
• 3:55:00
  Speaker 1: man or woman whom Heaven design should be his or
• 3:55:02
  Speaker 1: her wedded mate. The weight of Wilson's waggery fell upon
• 3:55:06
  Speaker 1: honest Humphrey and his spouse, who were bedded in an
• 3:55:09
  Speaker 1: upper room, with the usual ceremony of throwing the stocking Dot.
• 3:55:12
  Speaker 1: This being performed, and the company withdrawn a sort of
• 3:55:17
  Speaker 1: Caterwauling ensued when Jack found means to introduce a real
• 3:55:21
  Speaker 1: cat shod with walnut shells, which, galloping along the boards,
• 3:55:24
  Speaker 1: made such a dreadful noise as effectually discomposed our lovers.
• 3:55:29
  Speaker 1: Winnifred screamed aloud and shrunk under the bedclothes. Mister Lloyd,
• 3:55:33
  Speaker 1: believing that Satan was come to befet him appropriate persona,
• 3:55:37
  Speaker 1: laid aside all carnal thoughts and began to pray aloud
• 3:55:40
  Speaker 1: with great fervency dot. At length, the poor animal, being
• 3:55:43
  Speaker 1: more afraid than either, leaped into the bed and moled
• 3:55:46
  Speaker 1: with the most piteous exclamation. Dot Lloyd, thus informed of
• 3:55:51
  Speaker 1: the nature of the annoyance, rose and set the door
• 3:55:54
  Speaker 1: wide open, so that this troublesome visitant retreated with great expedition.
• 3:55:58
  Speaker 1: Then securing himself by means of a double bolt from
• 3:56:01
  Speaker 1: a second intrusion, he was left to enjoy his good
• 3:56:04
  Speaker 1: fortune without further disturbance. If one may judge from the
• 3:56:08
  Speaker 1: looks of the parties, they are all very well satisfied
• 3:56:11
  Speaker 1: with what has passed. George Denison and his wife are
• 3:56:14
  Speaker 1: too delicate to exhibit any strong marked signs of their
• 3:56:17
  Speaker 1: mutual satisfaction, but their eyes are sufficiently expressive. Missus tabithalis
• 3:56:21
  Speaker 1: Mahego is rather fulsome in signifying her approbation of the
• 3:56:24
  Speaker 1: captain's love, while his deportment is the very pink of gallantry. Dot.
• 3:56:29
  Speaker 1: He sighs and oguls and languishes at this amiable object.
• 3:56:33
  Speaker 1: He kisses her hand, mutters ejaculations of rapture, and sings
• 3:56:37
  Speaker 1: tender airs, and no doubt laughs internally at her folly
• 3:56:41
  Speaker 1: in believing him sincere Dot. In order to shew how
• 3:56:45
  Speaker 1: little his vigor was impaired by the fatigues of the
• 3:56:48
  Speaker 1: preceding day, he this morning danced a highland sarah brand
• 3:56:51
  Speaker 1: over a naked backsword, and leaped so high that I
• 3:56:54
  Speaker 1: believe he would make no contemptible figure as a vaulter
• 3:56:57
  Speaker 1: at Sadler's wells Dot. Mister Matthew Lloyd, when asked how
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  Speaker 1: he relished his bargain, throws up his eyes, crying for
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  Speaker 1: what we have received, Lord, make us thankful. Amen. His
• 3:57:09
  Speaker 1: helpmate giggles and holds her hand before her eyes, affecting
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  Speaker 1: to be ashamed of having been in bed with a man. Dot.
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  Speaker 1: Thus all these wigeons enjoy the novelty of their situation.
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  Speaker 1: But perhaps their notes will be changed when they are
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  Speaker 1: better acquainted with the nature of the decoy. As missus
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  Speaker 1: Willis cannot be persuaded to stay, and Lyddy is engaged
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  Speaker 1: by promise to accompany her daughter back to Gloucester. I
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  Speaker 1: fancy there will be a general migration from Hence, and
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  Speaker 1: that most of us will spend the Christmas holidays at Bath,
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  Speaker 1: in which case I shall certainly find an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: beat up your quarters. Dot. By this time, I suppose
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  Speaker 1: you are sick of Alma Mater, and even ready to
• 3:57:49
  Speaker 1: execute that scheme of peregrination which was last year concerted
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  Speaker 1: between you and your affectionate j. Melford. November eighth to
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Lewis, Dear Doctor, my niece is now happily settled
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  Speaker 1: for life, and Captain lis Mahego has taken Tabby off
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  Speaker 1: my hands, so that I have nothing further to do
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  Speaker 1: but to comfort my friend Baynard and provide for my
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  Speaker 1: son Lloyd, who is also fairly joined to missus. Winnifred Jenkins,
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  Speaker 1: you are an excellent genius at hints Doctor Arbuthnet was,
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  Speaker 1: but a type of Doctor Lewis. In that respect, what
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  Speaker 1: you observe of the vestry clerk deserves consideration. Dot. I
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  Speaker 1: make no doubt, but Matthew Lloyd is well enough qualified
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  Speaker 1: for the office. But at present you must find room
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  Speaker 1: for him in the house. Dot. His incorruptible honesty and
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  Speaker 1: indefatigable care will be serviceable in superintending the economy of
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  Speaker 1: my farm. Though I don't mean that he shall interfere
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  Speaker 1: with Barnes, of whom I have no cause to complain that.
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  Speaker 1: I am just returned with Baynard from a second trip
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  Speaker 1: to his house, where every thing is regulated to his satisfaction.
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  Speaker 1: He could not, however, review the apartments without tears and lamentation,
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  Speaker 1: so that he is not yet in a condition to
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  Speaker 1: be left alone. Therefore, I will not part with him
• 3:59:01
  Speaker 1: till the spring, when he intends to plunge into the
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  Speaker 1: avocations of husbandry, which will at once employ and amuse
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  Speaker 1: his attention. Dot. Charles Denison has promised to stay with
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  Speaker 1: him a fortnight to set him fairly afloat in his improvements,
• 3:59:15
  Speaker 1: and Jack Wilson will see him from time to time. Besides,
• 3:59:19
  Speaker 1: he has a few friends in the country whom his
• 3:59:21
  Speaker 1: new plan of life will not exclude from his society. Dot.
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  Speaker 1: In less than a year, I make no doubt but
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  Speaker 1: he will find himself perfectly at ease, both in his
• 3:59:30
  Speaker 1: mind and body. For the one had dangerously affected the other,
• 3:59:33
  Speaker 1: and I shall enjoy the exquisite pleasure of seeing my
• 3:59:36
  Speaker 1: friend rescued from misery and contempt. Missus willis being determined
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  Speaker 1: to return with her daughter in a few days to Gloucester.
• 3:59:44
  Speaker 1: Our plan has undergone some alteration. Jerry has persuaded his
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  Speaker 1: brother in law to carry his wife to Bath, and
• 3:59:51
  Speaker 1: I believe his parents will accompany him thither Dot. For
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  Speaker 1: my part, I have no intention to take that route
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  Speaker 1: to It must be something very extraordinary that will induce
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  Speaker 1: me to revisit either Bath or London. That my sister
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  Speaker 1: and her husband, Baynard and I will take leave of
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  Speaker 1: them at Gloucester and make the best of our way
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  Speaker 1: to Brambleton Hall, where I desired. You will prepare a
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  Speaker 1: good chine and turkey for our Christmas dinner. Dot. You
• 4:00:15
  Speaker 1: must also employ your medical skill in defending me from
• 4:00:18
  Speaker 1: the attacks of the gout, that I may be in
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  Speaker 1: good case to receive the rest of our company who
• 4:00:23
  Speaker 1: promise to visit us in their return from the Bath. Dot.
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  Speaker 1: As I have laid in a considerable stock of health,
• 4:00:29
  Speaker 1: it is to be hoped you will not have much
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  Speaker 1: trouble with me in the way of physic, but I
• 4:00:33
  Speaker 1: intend to work you on the side of exercised. I
• 4:00:36
  Speaker 1: have got an excellent fowling piece for mister Lismhego, who
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  Speaker 1: is a keen sportsman, and we shall take the heath
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  Speaker 1: in all weathers. Dot that this scheme of life may
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  Speaker 1: be prosecuted the more effectually. I intend to renounce all
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  Speaker 1: sedentary amusements, particularly that of writing long letters or resolution, which,
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  Speaker 1: had I taken it sooner, might have saved you the
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  Speaker 1: trouble which you have lately taken in reading the tedious
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  Speaker 1: epistles of Math bramble and O V. Twenty to missus
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  Speaker 1: Gwillim at Brambleton Hall, Good Mass, Willem Heaven for wise
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  Speaker 1: porpoises hath ordained that I should change my name and
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  Speaker 1: citation in life, so that I am not to be
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  Speaker 1: considered any more as manager of my brother's family. But
• 4:01:17
  Speaker 1: as I cannot surrender up my stewardship till I have
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  Speaker 1: settled with you and Williams, I desire you will get
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  Speaker 1: your accounts ready for inspection as we are coming home
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  Speaker 1: without further delay. My spows the Captain, being subject to rumatics,
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  Speaker 1: I beg you will take great care to have the
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  Speaker 1: blue chamber up two pair of stairs well warmed for
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  Speaker 1: his reception, that let the sashes be secured, the crevices stopped,
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  Speaker 1: the carpets laid, and the beds well tousled. Dot. Missus
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  Speaker 1: Lloyd late Jenkins, being married to a relation of the family,
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  Speaker 1: cannot remain in the capacity of a servant. Therefore, I
• 4:01:51
  Speaker 1: wish you would cast about for some creditable body to
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  Speaker 1: be with me in her room. If she can spin
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  Speaker 1: and is mistress of plain work, so much the better.
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  Speaker 1: But she must not expect extravagant wages. Having a family
• 4:02:03
  Speaker 1: of my own, I must be more acumenical than ever,
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  Speaker 1: no more at present, but rests your loving friend tab
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  Speaker 1: Liz Mahego n O v twenty to missus Mary Jones
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  Speaker 1: at Brambleton Hall, U S. Jones. Providence hath been pleased
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  Speaker 1: to make great halteration in the pasture of our affairs. Dot.
• 4:02:24
  Speaker 1: We were yesterday three kipple chined by the grease of
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  Speaker 1: God in the holy bands of matter money, and I
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  Speaker 1: now subscribe myself Lloyd at your sarvice, Dot. All The
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  Speaker 1: parish allowed that young Squire Dallison and his bride was
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  Speaker 1: a comely pair for de see Dot As for Madame
• 4:02:41
  Speaker 1: lash neehego, you knows her pecliarities. Her head, to be sure,
• 4:02:45
  Speaker 1: was fantastical, and her spouse had wrapped her with a
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  Speaker 1: long American furze cloak from the land of the salvages.
• 4:02:51
  Speaker 1: Thought they say it is of immense bally Dot. The
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  Speaker 1: captain himself had a huge hassock of air with three tails,
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  Speaker 1: and a tom tawdry coat. Botered with soul for dot
• 4:03:00
  Speaker 1: one said he was a monkey bank, and the old
• 4:03:04
  Speaker 1: bottler swore he was the born image of Tittadald. For
• 4:03:07
  Speaker 1: my part, I says nothing, being as how the captain
• 4:03:10
  Speaker 1: has done the handsome thing by Mida. Mister Lloyd was
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  Speaker 1: dressed in a light frog and check it with gould binding,
• 4:03:17
  Speaker 1: and thought he don't enter in comparison with great folks
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  Speaker 1: of quality. Yet he has got as good blood in
• 4:03:22
  Speaker 1: his veins as arrow privat squire in the county. And
• 4:03:25
  Speaker 1: then his pursing is far from content. Tabled, Y're humble
• 4:03:29
  Speaker 1: servant had on a plain pea green tabby sack with
• 4:03:32
  Speaker 1: my runnel, a cap rough to pay and side curls Dot.
• 4:03:36
  Speaker 1: They said I was the very moral of Lady Rickmanstone,
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  Speaker 1: but not so pale that may well be, for her
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  Speaker 1: ladyship is my elder by seven good years and more. Dot.
• 4:03:46
  Speaker 1: Now Missus Mary, our satiety is to suppurate. Mister Milfhart
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  Speaker 1: goes to bath along with the Dallisons, and the rest
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  Speaker 1: of us push home to Wales to pass our Krishmarsh
• 4:03:56
  Speaker 1: at Brambleton Hall. As our apartments is to be the
• 4:03:58
  Speaker 1: yallow pepper in the third good Story. Pray carry my
• 4:04:01
  Speaker 1: things thither DOT present my compliments to Missus Gwillim, and
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  Speaker 1: I hope she and I will live upon descent terms
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  Speaker 1: of civility. Dot, being by God's blessing, remove to a
• 4:04:12
  Speaker 1: higher spear. You'll excuse my being familiar with the lower
• 4:04:15
  Speaker 1: servants of the family, but as I trust you'll behave
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  Speaker 1: respectful and keep a proper distance, you may always depend
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  Speaker 1: upon the good will and protection of yours. W. L O.
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  Speaker 1: Y D. November twenty dot E n F. Snacks for listening.