Coaching days and coaching ways . all-eyednessin one so young. Firstly, that Miss Burney was not bynature a romanticist—indeed held them rather incontempt—and so was probably watching from thelanding window a comedy in real life played by twopost-boys and a chambermaid in the gallcried innsbackyard ; secondly, that the author of Evelina had notenjoyed the advantage possessed by the present genera-tion of revelling in the romances of Harrison ; Miss Burney had no opportunity of reading Rook-wood (not that she would have read it if she had had theopportunity, I fear) ; and so Cuckfi
Coaching days and coaching ways . all-eyednessin one so young. Firstly, that Miss Burney was not bynature a romanticist—indeed held them rather incontempt—and so was probably watching from thelanding window a comedy in real life played by twopost-boys and a chambermaid in the gallcried innsbackyard ; secondly, that the author of Evelina had notenjoyed the advantage possessed by the present genera-tion of revelling in the romances of Harrison ; Miss Burney had no opportunity of reading Rook-wood (not that she would have read it if she had had theopportunity, I fear) ; and so Cuckfield Park was notassociated in her mind, as it is in ours, with Dick Turpinand all the adventurous, dashing figures that throng thepages of Ainsworths first success. For Cuckfield Parkis the Rookwood of the romance ; and it is no unde-served compliment to its intrepid writer, who with all hisfaults, possessed the truly refreshing capacity for cuttinganalysis and getting to the story, that his novel has THE likllillTON RoAD 207. 1 >^< mser 77; e Gossips thrown the glamour of an additionally romantic interestover an old manor house already instinct with Cuckfield then Miss Burney is disappointing ; but 2oS COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS when she gets to Brighton—which she did on thisoccasion at about nine oclock in the evening—she is inher element. Then she becomes rich—rich in description,humour, observation, analysis, rich in everything inshort which can help to bring the terminus of theBrighton Road in 1779 vividly before our eyes. I donot think that I can do better than follow her for a dayor two through the pages of the diary which so racilydescribes this visit. The day then after her arrival, Miss Burney dined atthe Ship Tavern—(now known as the Old Ship, byactors, authors, managers, and other distressed un-fortunates, jaded with their labours and in search ofchange between the Saturday and the Monday). Notthat Miss Burney dined in such co
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