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- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Select Bibliography
- Note on the Text
- The Invisible Spy
- BOOK I
- BOOK II
- VOL. II
- BOOK III
- BOOK IV
- VOL. III
- BOOK V
- BOOK VI
- BOOK VII
- CHAP. I The Author, contrary to his expectation, finds himself under a necessity of making an introductory Preface to this Volume, and at the same time presents the Reader with two letters of a pretty extraordinary nature
- CHAP. II The Author flatters himself will be no unacceptable present to all those of the fair sex, who are either truly innocent, or would preserve the reputation of being so
- CHAP. III Presents the reader with the catastrophe of an adventure very different from what the beginning may have given him reason to expect
- CHAP. IV Contains the rehearsal of a conversation which the Author accidentally happen'd to be witness of, and looks upon himself as bound by an indispensible obligation to make public; though perfectly conscious, from his observations of mankind, that there are a very great many of his readers who will labour all they can to bring these pages into discredit
- CHAP. V Presents the reader with the detail of a very remarkable incident, which, I believe, if consider'd with a due attention, there are but few people, especially of the Fair Sex, who will not find themselves enabled to become better members of society by having perused
- CHAP. VI Which, according to the Author's opinion, stands in no need of a prelude, as it contains only the sequel of an adventure too interesting to all degrees of people not to demand the attention of every reader
- CHAP. VII Is somewhat more concise than ordinary, but very much to the purpose, and will be found not the least worthy of any in the book of being regarded with attention
- CHAP. VIII Presents the public with the account of an incident which cannot but be deeply affecting to the youth of both sexes, and no less remarkable in its event than any the Author's Invisibilityship ever enabled him to discover
- BOOK VIII
- Editorial Notes
- Silent Corrections
CHAP. VII - Is somewhat more concise than ordinary, but very much to the purpose, and will be found not the least worthy of any in the book of being regarded with attention
from BOOK VII
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Select Bibliography
- Note on the Text
- The Invisible Spy
- BOOK I
- BOOK II
- VOL. II
- BOOK III
- BOOK IV
- VOL. III
- BOOK V
- BOOK VI
- BOOK VII
- CHAP. I The Author, contrary to his expectation, finds himself under a necessity of making an introductory Preface to this Volume, and at the same time presents the Reader with two letters of a pretty extraordinary nature
- CHAP. II The Author flatters himself will be no unacceptable present to all those of the fair sex, who are either truly innocent, or would preserve the reputation of being so
- CHAP. III Presents the reader with the catastrophe of an adventure very different from what the beginning may have given him reason to expect
- CHAP. IV Contains the rehearsal of a conversation which the Author accidentally happen'd to be witness of, and looks upon himself as bound by an indispensible obligation to make public; though perfectly conscious, from his observations of mankind, that there are a very great many of his readers who will labour all they can to bring these pages into discredit
- CHAP. V Presents the reader with the detail of a very remarkable incident, which, I believe, if consider'd with a due attention, there are but few people, especially of the Fair Sex, who will not find themselves enabled to become better members of society by having perused
- CHAP. VI Which, according to the Author's opinion, stands in no need of a prelude, as it contains only the sequel of an adventure too interesting to all degrees of people not to demand the attention of every reader
- CHAP. VII Is somewhat more concise than ordinary, but very much to the purpose, and will be found not the least worthy of any in the book of being regarded with attention
- CHAP. VIII Presents the public with the account of an incident which cannot but be deeply affecting to the youth of both sexes, and no less remarkable in its event than any the Author's Invisibilityship ever enabled him to discover
- BOOK VIII
- Editorial Notes
- Silent Corrections
Summary
As during the course of these lucubrations I have been extremely circumstantial in the reports I have made, the reader has a right to be surprised that I omitted the discourse between Deidamia and Eutracia; – I shall therefore, according to my promise, relate my motive for so doing, and flatter myself it is such as will render me perfectly excuseable in this point.
Much about the time of the adventure related in the two preceding chapters, I happen'd to be witness of a conversation, which though between different persons, and on a very different occasion, was still on the subject of marriage, the authority of a husband, and the submission expected from a wife; so seem'd to me to have a certain sameness in it which I thought would be rather tiresome than agreeable to the ear, and for that reason left out the former, and made choice of the latter, as of the two the most interesting.
Two sisters, whose characters I present to the public under the names of Flavia and Celemena, have both of them a tolerable share of beauty, but no other qualification, either natural or acquired, that could entitle them to the hope of an elevated station; – yet, by the benevolent aspect of their happy planets, are they become the brides of Alcandor and Thelamont, persons distinguish'd in the world by their birth and fortune, and still more so by the greatness of their merit.
These nuptials, so astonishing to the town, and which happen'd soon after one another, gave me a curiosity to discover, by the help of my Invisibility, in what fashion the ladies would behave themselves in a sphere of life so altogether new to them, and so little expected, even in their vainest wishes, ever to arrive at.
Flavia was the eldest, and it was to her I made my first visit; – she was in her dressing room, sitting at her toylet, with her waiting-maid behind her, giving the finishing stroke to her head tyre.
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- The Invisible Spyby Eliza Haywood, pp. 404 - 408Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014