Camilla Or a Picture of Youth Author:Fanny Burney General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1802 Original Publisher: printed for T. Payne, ... T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies Subjects: Young women England Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Social Science / Women's Studies Notes: This is a b... more »lack 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: CHAP. IV. A Hint for Debtors. , t R. Xyrold was well aware that to keep from Sir Hugh the affliction of Camilla, he muft keep from him Camilla herfelf: for though her fighs fhe could fuppreis, and her tears diiperfe, her voice had loll its tone, her countenance its gaiety; her eyes no longer fparkled, her very fmiles betrayed an- guifh. He was the laft to wonder at her fufferings, for Edgar was nearly as dear to him as herfelf; hut he knew not, that, added, to this annfhilation of happinefs, her peace was' confumed by her fecret knowledge of the evils yet impending for himfelf and for her uncle. Concealment, always abhorrent to her nature, had, till now, been unknown . even to her thoughts; and its weight, from a fpecies of culpability that feemed attached to its practice, was, at times, more dreadful to bear than the lois even of Edgar himfelf. The latter blackened every profpedl of felicity ; but the former, ftill more tremendous to the pure principles in which fhe had been educated, feemed to ftrike even at her innocence. The firft wifh of an ingenuousgenuous mind is to anticipate even enquiry; the feeling, therefore, that moft heavily weighs it down, is any fear of detection. While they were at breakfaft the following morning, the fervant brought in the name of Dr. Marchmont. Camilla felt nearly fainting. Why he was corns -- whence -- whether Fdcrar ac-...« less