Dr Johnson & Fanny Burney; being the Johnsonian passages from the works of Mme D'Arblay; . very civil, she did not hint at mybook, and I love her very much more than ever forher delicacy in avoiding a subject which she could notbut see would have greatly embarrassed me. When we returned to the music-room we foundMiss Thrale was with my father. Miss Thrale Is avery fine girl, about fjj^teen years of age, but coldand reserv-ed, though full of knowledge and In-telligence.^ Soon after, Mrs. Thrale took me to the library;she talked a little while upon common topics, andthen, at last, she mentioned
Dr Johnson & Fanny Burney; being the Johnsonian passages from the works of Mme D'Arblay; . very civil, she did not hint at mybook, and I love her very much more than ever forher delicacy in avoiding a subject which she could notbut see would have greatly embarrassed me. When we returned to the music-room we foundMiss Thrale was with my father. Miss Thrale Is avery fine girl, about fjj^teen years of age, but coldand reserv-ed, though full of knowledge and In-telligence.^ Soon after, Mrs. Thrale took me to the library;she talked a little while upon common topics, andthen, at last, she mentioned Evelina. * Yesterday at supper, said she, we talked It allover, and discussed all your characters; but Dr. John-sons favourite Is Mr. Smith. He declares the finegentleman manque was never better drawn; and he See above, p. i. Passages in the Early Diary seem to havebeen eniplo3ed by Miss Burney (or by the first editor of her Diary,Mrs. Barrett) in the later and more famous Journal. The carefulreader will notice many repetitions from this earlier volume bothin the Diary and the 1778] Mr. Seward 17 acted him ^ all the evening, saying he was all for theladies! He repeated whole scenes by Ideclare I was astonished at him. Oh you cantimagine how much he is pleased with the book; he could not get rid of the rogue, ^ he told me. Butwas it not droll, he said, that I should recommendit to Dr. Burney? and tease him, so innocently, toread it? I now prevailed upon Mrs. Thrale to let me amusemyself, and she went to dress. I then prowled aboutto choose some book, and I saw, upon the reading-table, Evelina.—I had just fixed upon the new trans-lation of Ciceros Lalhis when the library door wasopened, and Mr. Seward entered. I instantly putaway my book, because I dreaded being thoughtstudious and affected. He offered his service to findanything for me, and then, in the same breath, ran onto speak of the book with which I had myself fa-voured the world! The exact words he beg
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