Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General editor’s preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Note on the text
- Volume the First
- Volume the Second
- Volume the Third
- Corrections and emendations
- Appendix A The History of England: facsimile
- Appendix B Marginalia in Oliver Goldsmith’s The History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Death of George II
- Appendix C Marginalia in Vicesimus Knox’s Elegant Extracts . . . in Prose
- Appendix D Sophia Sentiment’s letter in The Loiterer, 28 March 1789
- Appendix E Continuations of ‘Evelyn’ and ‘Catharine’ by James Edward Austen and Anna Lefroy
- Abbreviations
- Explanatory Notes
The beautifull Cassandra
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General editor’s preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Note on the text
- Volume the First
- Volume the Second
- Volume the Third
- Corrections and emendations
- Appendix A The History of England: facsimile
- Appendix B Marginalia in Oliver Goldsmith’s The History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Death of George II
- Appendix C Marginalia in Vicesimus Knox’s Elegant Extracts . . . in Prose
- Appendix D Sophia Sentiment’s letter in The Loiterer, 28 March 1789
- Appendix E Continuations of ‘Evelyn’ and ‘Catharine’ by James Edward Austen and Anna Lefroy
- Abbreviations
- Explanatory Notes
Summary
CHAPTER THE FIRST
Cassandra was the Daughter and the only Daughter of a celebrated Millener in Bond Street. Her father was of noble Birth, being the near relation of theDutchess of ––––'s Butler.
CHAPTER THE 2D
When Cassandra had attained her 16th year, she was lovely and amiable and chancing to fall in love with an elegant Bonnet, her Mother had just compleated bespoke by the Countess of –––– she placed it on her gentle Head and walked from her Mother's shop to make her Fortune.
CHAPTER THE 3RD
The first person she met, was the Viscount of –––– a young man, no less celebrated for his Accomplishments and Virtues, than for his Elegance and Beauty. She curtseyed and walked on.
CHAPTER THE 4TH
She then proceeded to a Pastry-cooks where she devoured six ices, refused to pay for them, knocked down the Pastry Cook and walked away.
CHAPTER THE 5TH
She next ascended a Hackney Coach and ordered it to Hampstead, where she was no sooner arrived than she ordered the Coachman to turn round and drive her back again.
CHAPTER THE 6TH
Being returned to the same spot of the same Street she had sate out from, the Coachman demanded his Pay.
CHAPTER THE 7TH
She searched her pockets over again and again; but every search was unsuccessfull. No money could she find. The man grew peremptory. She placed her bonnet on his head and ran away.
CHAPTER THE 8TH
Thro’ many a Street she then proceeded and met in none the least Adventure till on turning a Corner of Bloomsbury Square, she met Maria.
CHAPTER THE 9TH
Cassandra started and Maria seemed surprised; they trembled, blushed, turned pale and passed each other in a mutual Silence.
CHAPTER THE 10TH
Cassandra was next accosted by her freind the Widow, who squeezing out her little Head thro’ her less window, asked her how she did? Cassandra curtseyed and went on.
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- Juvenilia , pp. 53 - 56Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006