Life; Or, the Adventures of William Ramble, by the Author of Modern Times (1793) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: unguarded againft, that interferes and defeats it. Bridget muft have had but a poor infight into things, if fhe could any way fuppofe fhe mould have been able to have carried her point with Lady Dafhit; but, as fhe did fuppofe it, we muft conlider the tranf- aflion in the light we have now viewed it; that it was a defperate attack, and as defperately managed, and ended as thofe fchemes generally do, in the overthrow and ruin of the fchemer. Her defign on Colonel Ramble was not leTs abfurd or impracticable. However, faid me, nothing venture, nothing have. She followed the Colonel's method of introducing himfelf to Mifs Trevor, by a note, and wrote him the following: " An unfortunate young woman, " under twenty, without a friend or a home, the daughter of a refpectable " " tradefman thrown into prifon for " debt, wifties for an interview with " Colonel Ramble. She trufls her ap- pearance will plead in her favour, and " procure her that protection under " his roof, which me is ambitious to ' merit. The Colonel need only " name the hour of his being alone, "and me will wait on him.?The " bearer waits his anfvver." Ramble fent for the bearer of the letter letter up, and afkedhim fome queftions; but he being only a common porter, could give no other kind of information, than, that he was ordered to deliver the letter and bring an anfvver. The Colonel wrote one in the following line: ' Colonel Ramble will be alone ' to-morrow morning at eleven. Ramble's general good opinion of mankind led him to put the beft con- ftrutSions on this note, and, therefore, waited her coming with impatience, determining to relieve her, if relief was in his power. Bridget dreffed herfelf up fmartly and gayly, very much unbecoming the fuitor Ramble expected to meet with, but in that kind of...