Nature and Art

ith tenderness, he must have treated her with a degree of violence in the hope of amending her failings. But having neither personal nor mental affection

, dressed as she liked, and talked as she liked without a word of disa

pier in her marriage than the beloved wife who bathes her pillow with tears by the side of an angry hus

int at her foibles: but this great liberty she also conceived to be the effect of most violent love, or most violent admiratio

not come merely to lounge an idle hour, but he had a more powerful motive; the desire of

the renown he wished, still preser

rded him-not indeed with toys or money, but with their countenance, their company, their praise. And scarcely was there a sermon preached from the patrician part of the bench, in which th

f honour, by the lustre of this noble acquaintance; for, though in other respects he was a man of integrity, yet, when the gratification of his friend was in question, he was a liar; he not only disowned his giving him aid in any of his publications, but he never published anything

ent to public amusement; but much less for the pleasure of seeing than for that of being seen. Nor was it material to her enjoyment whether she were observed, or wel

miles, such as she thought captivating: she returne

g her to be patient under a misfortune to wh

grief of which he knew not the cause,

his aunt in a fury, casting the corner of her eye

of her companions: "few people w

utation lost, and I will shut myself up in some lonel

ne clothes?" said

my best dresses be, whe

f, dear aunt; and I am sure

e, "I do not think this gown I h

the press, which was to be published in the name of the latter, though written b

ts of her dress had for a time dispelled-"My reputation is destroyed-a public p

said the bishop: "all our lab

the dean, "that any one ha

t," said she, holdi

ehood spoken-the warmth of conversation may excuse it-but to write and

osterity," said Lady Clementina; "and

ing to console her: "perhaps after ages may not hear o

er from the dean, and read the paragraph, "It is a l

or, but the publis

er, but the printer,"

rs in a common court of justice?" cried Lad

try them by the ecclesiastical co

quent bill," said the

touch a card at home, and this libel charges me with playing at my own house; and t

xclaimed both the churchmen, "this is

much with curiosity upon this occasion, that he went softly up to his un

ised voice, "is that which one perso

do," asked Henry, "if the accus

," replied

oes he do if the a

kewise," answ

le that the innocent beha

no other w

d do nothing at all sooner than I would ac

dean in anger. "Leave the ro

alike, I did not at first observe the distinction. You said, 'the innocent prosecut

eance, and the writer of the libel was made acquainted with his danger, he waited, in

ion, but that the initials which she had conceived to mark out he

could induce you to write such a paragr

e are deceived in our information, we always take care to libel the innocent-we apprehend nothing from them-their own characters support them-but the guilty are very tenacious; and what they cannot secure by fair means, they