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- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Works Cited
- Note on the Text
- VOLUME FIRST THE CITIZEN, PRICE SIX SHILLINGS
- VOLUME SECOND THE CITIZEN, PRICE SIX SHILLINGS
- LETTER XXXII Miss Melworth, to Miss Bertills
- LETTER XXXIII The Hon. Augustus Fitzmaurice, to Sir Edward Melworth
- LETTER XXXIV Miss Melworth, to Miss Bertills
- LETTER XXXV Charles Montgomery, Esq. to Sir Edward Melworth
- LETTER XXXVI Miss Bertills To Miss Melworth
- LETTER XXXVII Charles Montgomery, Esq. to Sir Edward Melworth
- LETTER XXXVIII The same, to the same
- LETTER XXXIX From the same, to the same
- LETTER XL Mrs. Fleetwood to Mrs. Wilkins
- LETTER XLI Miss Matthews, to Mrs. Wilkins
- LETTER XLII Charles Montgomery, Esq. to the Hon. Augustus Fitzmaurice
- LETTER XLIII Sir Edward Melworth, to Charles Montgomery, Esq
- LETTER XLIV Miss Bertills to Miss Melworth
- LETTER XLV Charles Montgomery, Esq. to Sir Edward Melworth
- LETTER XLVI Miss Melworth, to Miss Bertills
- LETTER XLVII The Hon. Augustus Fitzmaurice, to Charles Montgomery, Esq
- LETTER XLVIII Miss Bertills to Miss Melworth
- LETTER XLIX Charles Montgomery, Esq. to the Hon. Augustus Fitzmaurice
- LETTER L The Hon. Augustus Fitzmaurice, to Charles Montgomery, Esq
- LETTER LI Miss Melworth to Miss Bertills
- LETTER II Miss Bertills, to Miss Melworth
- LETTER LIII Charles Montgomery,Esq. to Sir Edward Melworth
- LETTER LIV Sir Edward Melworth, to Charles Mongomery, Esq
- LETTER LV Mrs. Montgomery, to Mrs. Herbert
- LETTER LVI Mrs. Herbert, to Mrs. Montgomery
- LETTER LVII Major Herbert, to Charles Montgomery, Esq
- LETTER LVIII Mrs. Montgomery, to Mrs. Herbert
- LETTER LIX Mrs. Herbert, to Mrs. Montgomery
- Lately was published, in two vols. price six shillings, ELEONORA, A NOVEL, IN A SERIES OF LETTERS, by the author of THE CITIZEN
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LETTER XXXIX - From the same, to the same
from VOLUME SECOND - THE CITIZEN, PRICE SIX SHILLINGS
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Works Cited
- Note on the Text
- VOLUME FIRST THE CITIZEN, PRICE SIX SHILLINGS
- VOLUME SECOND THE CITIZEN, PRICE SIX SHILLINGS
- LETTER XXXII Miss Melworth, to Miss Bertills
- LETTER XXXIII The Hon. Augustus Fitzmaurice, to Sir Edward Melworth
- LETTER XXXIV Miss Melworth, to Miss Bertills
- LETTER XXXV Charles Montgomery, Esq. to Sir Edward Melworth
- LETTER XXXVI Miss Bertills To Miss Melworth
- LETTER XXXVII Charles Montgomery, Esq. to Sir Edward Melworth
- LETTER XXXVIII The same, to the same
- LETTER XXXIX From the same, to the same
- LETTER XL Mrs. Fleetwood to Mrs. Wilkins
- LETTER XLI Miss Matthews, to Mrs. Wilkins
- LETTER XLII Charles Montgomery, Esq. to the Hon. Augustus Fitzmaurice
- LETTER XLIII Sir Edward Melworth, to Charles Montgomery, Esq
- LETTER XLIV Miss Bertills to Miss Melworth
- LETTER XLV Charles Montgomery, Esq. to Sir Edward Melworth
- LETTER XLVI Miss Melworth, to Miss Bertills
- LETTER XLVII The Hon. Augustus Fitzmaurice, to Charles Montgomery, Esq
- LETTER XLVIII Miss Bertills to Miss Melworth
- LETTER XLIX Charles Montgomery, Esq. to the Hon. Augustus Fitzmaurice
- LETTER L The Hon. Augustus Fitzmaurice, to Charles Montgomery, Esq
- LETTER LI Miss Melworth to Miss Bertills
- LETTER II Miss Bertills, to Miss Melworth
- LETTER LIII Charles Montgomery,Esq. to Sir Edward Melworth
- LETTER LIV Sir Edward Melworth, to Charles Mongomery, Esq
- LETTER LV Mrs. Montgomery, to Mrs. Herbert
- LETTER LVI Mrs. Herbert, to Mrs. Montgomery
- LETTER LVII Major Herbert, to Charles Montgomery, Esq
- LETTER LVIII Mrs. Montgomery, to Mrs. Herbert
- LETTER LIX Mrs. Herbert, to Mrs. Montgomery
- Lately was published, in two vols. price six shillings, ELEONORA, A NOVEL, IN A SERIES OF LETTERS, by the author of THE CITIZEN
- Editorial notes
Summary
fir-grove.
Mr. Bertills is retired to rest. – May his slumbers be sweet and undisturbed! But from me every invocation to Morpheus would be in vain till I have disburdened my mind by communicating to you the intelligence I heard at Leeds./
Poor Wilkins, who married Fanny Elwood, and who was generally supposed rich, is now in a situation which has stripped off the mask and convinced the world that he married her with a view to make his affairs easy, by means of the thousand pounds it was thought she possessed; but which, on his enquiring for it a few days after their marriage, she, with all the rage of a disappointed woman, and all the effrontery of hardened impudence, avowed having lost the whole of one night at a gaming table in London. Thus, disappointed of his dernier resource, he was, in a very few days afterwards, obliged to become a bankrupt, and his wife has, it seems, decamped no one knows whither. The sale of his effects commenced yesterday. Mrs. Clements had accompanied some ladies to it; where being tempted by the sight of a very curious little India cabinet, she became the purchaser, and it was brought home while Mr. Bertills and I were there. It was immediately opened; and, in examining it closely, we found one of the drawers obstructed in its passage by something. I presently discovered that the obstruction proceeded/from some papers that had been left in the inside; and, on taking them out, they proved to be two letters addressed to Mrs. Wilkins. The signatures struck me. I had often heard her mention the names of the writers as her intimate friends, and was therefore curious to know what was the subject of their correspondence. I was looking over them when Mr. Bertills cried out,
‘Charles, you have got something that seems to engage your attention closely; of course, it must be very pleasing. – Be so obliging as to read aloud, that we may be all equally entertained.’
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- The Citizenby Ann Gomersall, pp. 118 - 119Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014