The Victims of Society
by Marguerite Gardiner (9781458943248)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: afraid that he will find clrbs more agreeable than home, or any other man's wife more to his taste, than his own. My father has written to yours, to request that he, and your good mother, will conduct your giddy self to Howard Castle, to be present at the nuptial ceremony. This will be a good occasion for you to display your pearls, on the possession of which I congratulate you: and to gratify, by your presence, your fondly attached Mary Howard. LADY A. VERNON TO MISS MONTRESSOR. Howard Castle. Here we are, my dear Caroline, safely arrived; and, according to promise, I give you an account of all that is going on in this place. Dear Mary Howard is as amiable, as hand- some, and as reasonable, as ever; and seems to me unaccountably tranquil, for one who is on the point of marrying the man of her choice. I should be all in a flutter on such an occasion, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and doing both by turns. Lord De- laward is very good - looking, but has a sort of dignified gravity about him that is rather chilling and imposing; at least, such is its effect on me. There is a respectful deference in his manner towards Mary, that checks even my habitual familiarity: it is as though he wished to intimate, that she whom he had chosen was not to be lightly approached; consequently, I find myself involuntarily assuming a more reverential demeanour towards her?not that I am less attached to her than before. I wonder, Caroline, whether I shall ever excite this respectful feeling in the breast of any man. There is something very flattering in -it, too; yet, I should like to be more wildly, more passionately loved than Mary is; and I should be addicted to shewing my power over my lover, as well as exerting it. How delightful to alarm, to agitate him?to make him feel...

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