Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Select Bibliography
- Note on the Text
- The Invisible Spy
- BOOK I
- BOOK II
- VOL. II
- BOOK III
- CHAP. I In which the author introduces himself to the public by some letters he has received from unrequested correspondents, and the answers he gives to them
- CHAP. II Contains the history of a very extraordinary funeral, and also of some other pretty particular occurrences which the author was witness of, in Invisible visit he made to the most favourite part of the family of a lady of distinction
- CHAP. III Is a kind of a warning-bell to the public, and gives a melancholy, tho' a common proof, that a person in endeavouring, by unjust or imprudent measures, to avoid falling into an imaginary misfortune is frequently liable to bring on effectually what otherwise might never have happen'd
- CHAP. IV In which the reader is requested to expect no more than a continuation of same narrative begun in the preceding chapter; and which has in it too great a multiplicity of incidents to be fully concluded in this
- CHAP. V In which the consequences of Cleora's elopement, in relation both to herself and husband, are fully shewn, and an end put to that suspense which it is probable the former pages may have excited in the mind of every interested and curious reader
- CHAP. VI Treats of divers and sundry matters, some of which the Invisible author flatters himself will be very agreeable to the greatest part of the readers, but if, contrary to his expectations, they should happen to he found otherwise he hopes at least they will be excused on account of others, both past and to come, more entertaining and suitable to his taste
- CHAP. VII Presents the reader with a full view of the beautiful and much Sabina, in an impartial description of her person and character, with particulars in relation to her two amours, and the consequences which attended this last assignation made with her favourite Youngly
- CHAP. VIII Contains the catastrophe of an adventure, which the author thinks fit declare is inserted in these lucubrations less to amuse his reader than the sake of setting in a true light those facts which some people have artfully endeavoured to misrepresent to the public
- BOOK IV
- VOL. III
- BOOK V
- BOOK VI
- BOOK VII
- BOOK VIII
- Editorial Notes
- Silent Corrections
CHAP. IV - In which the reader is requested to expect no more than a continuation of same narrative begun in the preceding chapter; and which has in it too great a multiplicity of incidents to be fully concluded in this
from BOOK III
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Select Bibliography
- Note on the Text
- The Invisible Spy
- BOOK I
- BOOK II
- VOL. II
- BOOK III
- CHAP. I In which the author introduces himself to the public by some letters he has received from unrequested correspondents, and the answers he gives to them
- CHAP. II Contains the history of a very extraordinary funeral, and also of some other pretty particular occurrences which the author was witness of, in Invisible visit he made to the most favourite part of the family of a lady of distinction
- CHAP. III Is a kind of a warning-bell to the public, and gives a melancholy, tho' a common proof, that a person in endeavouring, by unjust or imprudent measures, to avoid falling into an imaginary misfortune is frequently liable to bring on effectually what otherwise might never have happen'd
- CHAP. IV In which the reader is requested to expect no more than a continuation of same narrative begun in the preceding chapter; and which has in it too great a multiplicity of incidents to be fully concluded in this
- CHAP. V In which the consequences of Cleora's elopement, in relation both to herself and husband, are fully shewn, and an end put to that suspense which it is probable the former pages may have excited in the mind of every interested and curious reader
- CHAP. VI Treats of divers and sundry matters, some of which the Invisible author flatters himself will be very agreeable to the greatest part of the readers, but if, contrary to his expectations, they should happen to he found otherwise he hopes at least they will be excused on account of others, both past and to come, more entertaining and suitable to his taste
- CHAP. VII Presents the reader with a full view of the beautiful and much Sabina, in an impartial description of her person and character, with particulars in relation to her two amours, and the consequences which attended this last assignation made with her favourite Youngly
- CHAP. VIII Contains the catastrophe of an adventure, which the author thinks fit declare is inserted in these lucubrations less to amuse his reader than the sake of setting in a true light those facts which some people have artfully endeavoured to misrepresent to the public
- BOOK IV
- VOL. III
- BOOK V
- BOOK VI
- BOOK VII
- BOOK VIII
- Editorial Notes
- Silent Corrections
Summary
The distress in which I had left the beautiful Cleora, and the knowledge I now had of her innocence, very much affected me, and I must either have chang'd my nature, or have lost that happy Gift of Invisibility, which enabled me to discover almost every thing, not to have flown the next morning to the house of Aristus, in order to inform myself what effects the conversation of the preceding night had produced.
I truly pitied the unhappy pair, for though Aristus was unjust and cruel in his suspicions, yet I plainly saw he suffer'd no less in his own mind than what he inflicted on his much injur'd wife; – especially when I reflected that he was not guilty through a want of affection for her, but a too violent excess of it; as is observed by one of our best English poets:
The greater care, the higher passion shews,
We hold that dearest, we most fear to lose.
Indeed I soon found, how much more than I could even have imagined, this off ending husband deserved my commiseration; – he was abroad, and Cleora not yet risen from her bed, when I made my visit, which, as near as I can remember, was somewhat past eleven o'clock; – resolved, however, not to lose my labour entirely, I had recourse for intelligence to the tatlers of the kitchen, whom, according to my wish, I found busy in discourse on the very point I wanted.
Some took the part of their master, – some of their lady; and upon the whole, I found that a second quarrel having ensued after Aristus came home, Cleora had refused either to sup or sleep with him; but lay in a bed she had order'd to be prepar'd for her in another room, on which he went not to his own, but continued the whole night walking about the house, and behaved like a man totally deprived of reason; – I shall relate some few of the animadversions made by these speculative gentry on this occasion.
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- The Invisible Spyby Eliza Haywood, pp. 141 - 150Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014