Charles Frankland
Published: 2012-02
Total Pages: 96
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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: as it didime no fort of fervice. Mr. Frankland, faid J, is going to be married, I hear. ..: -;.o, Kf .. Is he ? replied Harriot, without taking her eyes from her tambour; to whom ? eTo a Mifc Price' sin- fwered I; though I do not know any thing about her. ? w. Did you ever fee her ? cried fhe, coolly ? and then turned the coaverfoaoa to a quite different fubject. .1-1 if: i-;.: Eager to refume that in which I was fo much interefted myfeif, I thus pro-- ceeded ? I want to fee this Mifs Prkp .f I wonder whether fhe is pretty. 1 know nothing aboirt: her, Ha/riot, with rather a fretful tone, as if flic was tired of hearing of her. - - - ' ' C 4 I I am fure fomebody mentione-cJ her in this houfe, replied I. My brother, I fuppofe?He kno ws her. Where is your brother ?' Out of town.; Pfhaw anfwered I, peevifhly?I was actually in a pet.: . Juft when I was thinking of taking leave, who mould come in but Frank- land himfelf ? / Is Mr. Swymmer at home, Ma- dam ? faid he to Harriot. Then, bowing to me, he added, Your Ladylhip's ? moft obedient.'' My heart began to thump ftrangely: at firft I thought to look cool, in order to fhew that I refented his indifference: but fhould I not, by fuch a behaviour, have fhewn him alfo that I was hurt by it I acted in another manner: with a fmile I told him, that I was come to enquire after a Lady of his acquaintance, a Mifs Price. She is a moft agreeable girl, faid he, with a franknefs that charmed me. Your Ladyfhip would, I believe, be pleafed with her. Very probably, replied I: pray tell me, Mr. Frankland, what fort of a perfon has fhe ? She is tall and flender, yet genteelly made, anfwered he: fhe is fair; C 5 ...