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Diary and Letters of Madame D'arblay, Ed. by C. Barrett
Diary and Letters of Madame D'arblay Ed by C Barrett Author:Fanny Burney General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1876 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: He laughed very heartily himself -- well he might -- and walked away to enjoy it, crying out -- " Very fair indeed! that's being very fair and honest!" Then, returning to me again, he said -- " But your father -- how came you not to show him what you wrote?" " I was too much ashamed of it, sir, seriously." Literal truth that, I am sure. " And how did he find it out ?' " I don't know myself, sir. He never would tell me." Literal truth again, my dear father, as you can testify. " But how did you get it printed ?" " I sent it, sir, to a bookseller my father never employed, and that I never had seen myself, Mr. Lowndes, in full hope by that means he never would hear of it." " But how could you manage that ?" " By means of a brother, sir." " Oh ! -- you confided in a brother, then ?" " Yes, sir -- that is, for the publication." "What entertainment you must have had from hearing people's conjectures before you were known ! Do you remember any of them ?" " Yes, sir, many." " And what ?" " I heard that Mr. Baretti laid a wager it was written by a man; for no woman, he said, could have kept her own counsel." This diverted him extremely. " But how was it," he continued, " you thought most likely for your father to discover you ?" " Sometimes, sir, I have supposed I must have dropped some of the manuscript: sometimes, that one of my sisters betrayed me." " Oh ! your sister ? -- what, not your brother ?" " No, sir; he could not, for " I was going on, but he laughed so much I could not be heard, exclaiming, " Vastly well! I see you are of Mr. Baretti's mind, and think your brother could keep y...« less