The Microcosm, by the Author of 'Vicissitudes in Genteel Life'. (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1801. Excerpt: ... CHAP. cvr. Mr. Clifford proceeds to Windsor. AFTER a stay at Falmouth of a day and a half, Mr. Clifford took leave of his four friends, whom he lest under sail for Jamaica; and after lingering on the shore till the topmast of their vessel vanished from his view, heaved a sigh of friendship, and returning to the inn, ordered a chaise for Truro. Impatient to exert his powers for the happiness of many who were dear to him, Clifford stopped not till he reached Basingstoke, at which place he indulged a sew hours of steep, intending inH mediately after this necessity resresttment, to hasten to Windfor. But his design was in fome measure prevented by the circumstance of all the carriages of the place being engaged in consequence of the wedding of a rich heiress in the neighbourhood. He K 3 was was obliged theresore to wait fo long for the return of one of the chaises, th;;t he did not arrive at Mr. Herbert's till that gentleman, his lady, and our heroine were sitting at their evening tea. The weather was sine, and their apartment, which was on the second floor, and overlooked fome beautisul gardens, extremely pleasant. Mrs. Herbert and Letitia sat on a sofa near a window; Mr. Herbert on the other side of the teatable. The loveliness of the scene had been the subject of their conversation, and Letitia with a tear upon her cheek, said the opposite view brought to her mind one in which she had always taken peculiar pleasure at Spencer Aviary. I wish," said Mrs. Herbert, "that ' every scene at Beverly could be oblite' rated from your remembrance. Will you never, my dear Harriet, look for"ward without a previous retrofpect?" "Never can I forget the friends of my earlier days," returned our heroine. "Never cease to regret the necessity of a "separation "reparation f...