. The novels of Samuel Richardson. Complete and unabridged . ^lissByron! you must let me live with you and my guardian, if youshould ever be Lady Grandison. But here, madam, are sad doings sometimes between Lord and Lady G . I am very angry at her often in my heart; yet I cannot help laughing now and then at her out-of-the-way sayings. Is not her character a very new one? Or arethere more such young wives? I could not do as she does,were I to be queen of the globe. Every body blames her. Shewill make my lord not love her, at last. Dont you think so ?And then what will she get by her wit ? Just
. The novels of Samuel Richardson. Complete and unabridged . ^lissByron! you must let me live with you and my guardian, if youshould ever be Lady Grandison. But here, madam, are sad doings sometimes between Lord and Lady G . I am very angry at her often in my heart; yet I cannot help laughing now and then at her out-of-the-way sayings. Is not her character a very new one? Or arethere more such young wives? I could not do as she does,were I to be queen of the globe. Every body blames her. Shewill make my lord not love her, at last. Dont you think so ?And then what will she get by her wit ? Just this moment she came into my closet—Writing,Emily? said she: to whom?—I told her.—Dont tell tales outof school, Emily.—I was so afraid that she would have askedto see what I had written: but she did not. To be sure sheis very polite, and knows what belongs to herself, and every-body else: to be ungenerous, as you once said, to her husbandonly, that is a very sad thing to think of. Anne saw her first, I alighted, ami asked her blessingin the SIR CHARLES GRANDI80N. 289 Well, and 1 would give anylliing to know if you think whntI have written tolcrahle, before I go any farther: but 1 willgo on this way, since I cannot do better. Bad is my best; butyou shall have quantity, I warrant, since you bid me writelong letters. r>ut I have seen my mother: it was but yesterday. She was in a mercers shop in Covent Garden. I was in Lord L s chariot; only Anne was with me. Anne saw her first, ialighted, and asked her blessing in the shop: I am sure I didright. She blessed me, and called me dear love. I stayed tillshe had bought what she wanted, and then I slid down themoney, as if it were by her own doing; and glad I was I had somuch about me: it came but to four guineas. I begged her,speaking low, to forgive me for so doing: and finding shewas to go home as far as Soho, and had thoughts of having ahackney coach called, I gave Anne money for a coach for her-self and waited on
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