A Year and a Day, by Madame Panache (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. 1818. Excerpt: ... affectionate leave of her, and she and I drove from the door in an open landau. As we turned into Hyde Park-gate, our progress was arrested by a curricle containing a lady and gentleman, and which had stopped immediately before us.--"Good God that is Lady Egglestone " exclaimed a voice that was familiar to her ear. She feebly raised her head from the pillow on which it had hitherto rested, and beheld Lord James Warrenden and Mrs. Cleverly, who were both gazing at her intently, with evident emotion. Caroline's head again fell back on her pillow, and she closed her eyes; but from underneath her long eye-lashes a silent tear slowly escaped. After a short pause, I took hold of her hand; "It is all over now," said Caroline, and her countenance resumed its wonted composure; but its expression seemed to say, she " bid a long farewell to all her greatness." On the evening of the second day we arrived at the end of our journey; and after Lady Egglestone had, in some degree, recovered her fatigue, an apparently favourable turn in her disorder seemed to take place. The cottage in which we now took up our abode was one of those edifices in which the fashion of the present day seems most to delight in exhibiting strange, and even contradictory caprices. A thatched roof and simple elevation concealed all that lavish expenditure could collect for the gratification of luxury, or the indulgence of ease. ', "For nothing the devil he loves so well, As pride in the garb of humility." The tastes, the whims, the manufactures of countries nearly antipodes to each other, were here assembled in one incongruous mass, to form a fair specimen of rural magnificence in England at the commencement of the nineteenth century. However, although the ap 5 pearance of the rooms already mor...