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The Works of Tobias Smollett (10); Sir Launcelot Greaves, 1895
The Works of Tobias Smollett Sir Launcelot Greaves 1895 - 10 Author:Tobias George Smollett Volume: 10 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1895 Original Publisher: Gibbings Subjects: Fiction / Literary History / Europe / France History / Europe / Italy Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Shakespeare Notes: This ... more »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 books for free. Excerpt: Sycamore and Dawdle 197 Let us now leave them to the enjoyment of a sober and rational conversation, and give some account of other guests, who arrived late in the evening, and here fixed their night quarters. But as we have already trespassed on the reader's patience, we shall give him a short respite, until the next chapter makes its appearance. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN In which the Rays of Chivalry shine with renovated Lustre. OUR hero little dreamed that he had a formidable rival in the person of the knight, who arrived about eleven, at the sign of the St. George, and, by the noise he made, gave intimation of his importance. This was no other than Squire Sycamore, who, having received advice that Miss Aurelia Darnel had eloped from the place of her retreat, immediately took the field in quest of that lovely fugitive; hoping that, should he have the good fortune to find her in present distress, his good offices would not be rejected. He had followed the chase so close, that, immediately after our adventurer's departure, he alighted at the inn, from whence Aurelia had been conveyed; and there he learned the particulars which we have related above. Mr. Sycamore had a great deal of the childish romantic in his disposition, and, in the course of his amours, is said to have always taken more pleasure in the pursuit than in the final possession. He had heard of S...« less