Letters from Sir Charles Grandison Author:Samuel Richardson 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: LETTER I [ii] MISS HARRIET BYRON TO MISS LUCY SELBY Wednesday night, March i. Mr. Fowler set out yesterday for Gloucestershire, where he has an estate. ... more »He proposes to go from thence to Caermarthen, to the worthy Sir Rowland. He paid a visit to Mr. Reeves, and desired him to present to me his best wishes and respects. He declared that he could not possibly take leave of me, though he doubted not but I would receive him with goodness, as he called it. But it was that which cut him to the heart: so kind and so cruel, he said, he could not bear it. I hope poor Mr. Fowler will be more happy than I could make him. Methinks I could have been half glad to have seen him before he went, and yet but half glad, since, had he shown much concern, I should have been pained. Take now, my dear, an account of what passed this day in St. James's Square. There were at Sir Charles Grandison's, besides Lord and Lady L., the young Lord G., one of Miss Grandison's humble servants; Mr. Everard Grandison; Miss Emily Jervois, a young lady of about fourteen, a ward of Sir Charles; and Dr. Bartlett, a divine, of whom more by-and-by. Sir Charles conducted us into the drawing-room adjoining to the dining-room, where only were his two sisters. They received my cousins and me with looks of love. " I will tell you," said Sir Charles, " your company, before I present them to you. Lord L. is a good man; I honour him as such, and love him as my sister's husband." Lady L bowed and looked round her, as if she took pride in her brother's approbation of her lord. " Mr. Everard Grandison," proceeded he, " is a sprightly man. He is prepared to admire you, Miss Byron. You will not believe, perhaps, half the handsome things he will say to you, but yet will be the only person who hears them th...« less