. Thackerayana;. hosts and empty shades : What suits with Phoebe in her bloom, Grey Chloris, will not thee become ; A bed is different from a tomb.—Creech. Parthenia addresses a letter to the Rambler on the sub-ject of the troubles she suffers from the frivolous desire whichher mother, a widow, has contracted to practise the follies ofyouth, the pursuit of which she finds fettered by the presence ofParthenia, whom she is inclined to regard not as her daughter, butas a rival dangerous to the admiration which the elder lady wouldconfine to herself. After a year of decent mourning had been devote
. Thackerayana;. hosts and empty shades : What suits with Phoebe in her bloom, Grey Chloris, will not thee become ; A bed is different from a tomb.—Creech. Parthenia addresses a letter to the Rambler on the sub-ject of the troubles she suffers from the frivolous desire whichher mother, a widow, has contracted to practise the follies ofyouth, the pursuit of which she finds fettered by the presence ofParthenia, whom she is inclined to regard not as her daughter, butas a rival dangerous to the admiration which the elder lady wouldconfine to herself. After a year of decent mourning had been devoted to deplor-ing the loss of Parthenias father— All the officiousness of kind-ness and folly was busied to change the conduct of the was at one time alarmed with censure, and at another firedwith praise. She was told of balls where others shone onlybecause she was absent, of new comedies to which all the townwas crowding, and of many ingenious ironies by which domesticdiligence was made THE RAMBLER: 385 * It is difficult for virtue to stand alone against fear on one sideand pleasure on the other, especially when no actual crime is pro-posed, and prudence itself can suggest manyreasons for relaxation and indulgence. Mymamma was at last persuaded to accompanyMrs. Giddy to a play. She was received with aboundless profusion of compliments, and at-tended home by a very fine gentleman. Nextday she was, with less difficulty, prevailed on toplay at Mrs. Gravelys, and came home gay andlively, for the distinctions that had been payed her awakened hervanity, and good luck had kept her principles of frugality fromgiving her disturbance. She now made her second entrance intothe world, and her friends were sufficiently industrious to preventany return to her former life; every morning brought messages ofinvitation, and every evening was passed in places of diversion,from which she for some time complained that she had rather beabsent. In a short time she began to
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