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Tales of Truth, by a Lady [signing Herself E.h.].
Tales of Truth by a Lady - signing Herself E.h. Author:E. H General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1800 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: THE VI SIT. 1 ONCE had the good fortune to know Melinda : in my early knowledge of her, fhc refided in a romantic retreat; in what county, is not to the prefent purpofe -- fuf- fice it was in England. The writer of a. minute or long ftory, fhould poflefs what I am about to prove to my readers Id) nott viz. wit. -- " You have invention, then," faid a fiiend, to whom I made the above confeffion. " I have its reputed parent, necejjity," faid I ; -- " but fhe has, in her vif:t to n. e, proved the fallibility of the apothegm in her favour." Vol. xi. B " Upon " Upon what credit do you fet up as an antborefi ?" " Not being favoured with the qualifications, I aflume not the title ; I relate only -- Truth is my goddefs ; and if, like be. auty, ' fhe is, when unadorned, adorned the moft,' my relations wijl be read." Belinda was a widow at the period alluded ; -- her heart fincere, open as day to ' melting charity ;' her mind highly cultivated ; her manners captivating. Shs had received from nature a large portion of vivacity ; but as fhe had not always trod a velvet path, it was much decreafed; more from circumftance than age -- perhaps fhe was improved by its diminution. She She now pofTefled that refined delicacy and regular chearfuluefs, which decorate the female mind to more advantage, than all the fparklers of Golconda would the per- When at the age of eighteen, fhe had a little romance in her compofition : -- She thought it poffible to be happy with the man of her heart, though not within the circle of fplendour and fafhion : a circle tha: is ofien as fatal to happinefs, as the vortex of Maclfhom i...« less