Pelham, Volume 1.

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e dowerless daughter of a Scotch peer. Mr. Pelham was a moderate whig, and gave sumptuous

of D_____; she declared it was impossible to go without her diamonds. The chief of the bailiffs declared it was impossible to trust them out of his sight. The matter was compromised- the bailiff went with my mother to C___, and was introduced as

ft my mother twenty thousand pounds. "It will just pay off our mos

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ople in a Turkish tent. Both were equally fortunate, the Greek and the Turk; my father's horse lost, in consequence of which he p

which Lady Frances felt at his addresses. The end of the season was unusually dull, and my mother, after having looked over

's heart, when she remembered that her favourite china monster and her French dog were left behind. She insisted on returning-re-entered the house, and was coming dow

ubt it in the least, for he was always celebrated for his skill in private theatricals. He was just retiring to vent his grief in his dressing-room, when he met my mother. It must altogether have been an awkward rencontre, and, indeed, for my father, a remarkably unfortunate

e affair ended thus,-as I know, from many instances, that it is

et, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it. To render thi

on account of these and similar eccentricities, he was thought a fool by some, and a madman by others. However, he was not quite destitute of natural feeling; for he paid my father's debts, and established us in the secure enjoyment of our former splendour. But th