A Winter in London Volume 1; Or, Sketches of Fashion a Novel (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. 1806 Excerpt: ...in the hot-bed of a luxurious metropolis.. Thus dividing his time between grave and lighter studies, in visiting alternately his venerable friend at the Abbey, and his gay acquaintances at Roseville Park, Edward's years rolled on, and he gradually overcame, in a great degree, the effects produced on his mind by the mysterious stranger. CHAPTER VE. A WOODMAN." W HEN Edward had attained his one-andtwentieth year no further change had taken place, norhadanyincident worthy of notice occurred either at Roseville Park orBeauchamp Abbey. The earl and his family still continued abroad, and Adam Osborn still remained the unmolested governor of the Abbey. Regular remittances arrived, with very kind letters, from lady Roseville to her protege; but no plan for his future life had yet been even hinted at. At this period Edward was in outward form the man; his mind was well informed, and his heart was uncorrupted. His person, which was above the middle stature, was gracefully noble, his complexion was fair and ruddy, and the well harmonized fea- tures of his face, the placid smile that adorned his lips, and the sparkling fires that beamed from his eyes, indicated, in the most striking characters, the suavity, the benevolence, and the intelligence of his spirit. Sometimes, indeed, a transient shade of sadness rested on his brow, when the recollection of the uncertainty of his birth and. the inactive dependency of his present situation obtruded upon his mind; but these were specks of clouds which, in that sanguine season of man's life, the slenderest rays of hope would instantly dispel. Sometimes, with a heart-drawn sigh, he would exclaim, in solitude--" For what purpose was I rescued from the deep?--To eat the bread of idleness thus day after day; to feed on...