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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 XLVII - The Hon. Augustus Fitzmaurice, to Charles Montgomery, Esq
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
nice.
Well done, my friend! I congratulate you on the fair prospect of happiness now before you. I am glad to find you gained courage at last to avow your sentiments to Miss Bertills. Upon the whole, you have done much better than I expected, considering the great disadvantage you laboured under in not having me at your elbow to inspire you with heroism sufficient for so capital an undertaking; tho’ it must be allowed you threw away a vast deal of precious time in conjuring up dangers and difficulties where they had no existence in reality. Edward says, he could have told you a secret which would have removed them all in a moment, but from motives of kindness he chose to withhold it; because a lover's greatest pleasures spring out of/his pains. When you are married, he will devulge the said secret to you, and not before; when that time arrives, may you and Miss Bertills experience for a long succession of years, the utmost felicity that state affords!
You see, Charles, I have disdained to copy the selfish example you set me, by writing only upon my own affairs, and neglecting to say one word upon yours.
– On the contrary, I begin with the subject nearest your heart, and, afterwards, proceed to that in which my own is interested; tho’ I am to tell you, that I am not wholly without doubts and fears, which sometimes take possesion of my bosom, and make me as miserable a dog as ever was created. This tender passion, when it is sincere, makes shocking work with a man. I declare to you, if I were not happily stocked with a tolerable portion of vanity, I could never go thro’ the probation time; that alone enables me to support it. If vanity did not always take care to step in, and, like a good housewife, clear away the trumpery which is scattered up and down over the wide expanse of my mind, and set things perfectly to rights there, I know/not what would become of me; for the moment I am alone the powers of imagination go to work, and present my loved Harriet to my view, decorated with all the numberless beauties of her face, and graces of her person.
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- The Citizenby Ann Gomersall, pp. 135 - 137Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014