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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827. Excerpt:... from all evil, and constant self-communion, are carefully modified by peculiar circumstances as well as by attention to the character and situation of her clients; and she smilingly observes, that were the decrees of her court of equity collected,they would be found to include too many apparent contrarieties to command general deference. Thus, Miss Tiffany was dissuaded from going to Almack's ball, while Erminia exerted herself to procure a ticket for Hebe Homebred; not from partiality, though Hebe certainly is the pleasantest girl; but because her spirits had been depressed by a beloved brother's departure for India, and Mrs. Tiffany's ill state of health made it unkind in her daughter to be absent from her one evening. For similar reasons, she authorised our young friend to witness a chefd'osuvre of the histrionic art in Miss O'Neill's delineation of Juliet, as she had an opportunity of going with a matronly party; but interdicted another from that indulgence, with Captain Sparkish at her elbow, lest she should fancy him another impersonification of Romeo. But in this latter instance, her inclination to deprive restraint of all aspect of severity induced her to invite the half-ensnared maid on that evening to one of her own select parties, where, by a judicious direction of the conversation, romantic love was proved to have so much more of dramatic effect than of domestic expediency in its composition, that the young lady, who had been bred up to the comforts of an equipage and a suitable establishment, relinquished the idea of living upon bread-pudding and potatoes in country quarters with the man she loved. She soon afterwards actually found out that this man was not Captain Sparkish, but a gentleman who made his approaches in form, supported with par...