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Title: Evelina : or, the history of a young lady's entrance into the world
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840
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Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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ir Clement, that you have not seenthese verses ? I hardly know, answered I, whether any body has. I assure you, said Mrs. Selwyn, if you give me the inventionof them, you do me an honour I by no means deserve. I wrote down in my tablets, said Sir Clement, the stanzaswhich concern Miss Anville this morning at the pump-room; andI will do myself the honour of copying them for her this evening. But why the part that concerns Miss Anville? said Mrs.Selwyn; Did you ever see her before this morning? O yes, answered he, I have had that happiness frequentlyat Captain Mirvans. Too, too frequently! added he, in a lowvoice, as Mrs. Selwyn turned to the milliner: and as soon as she wasoccupied in examining some trimmings, he came to me, and, almostwhether I would or not, entered into conversation with me. I have a thousand things, cried he, to say to you. Praywhere are you? With Mrs. Selwyn, Sir. Indeed! — then, for once, chance is my friend. And howlong have you been here?About three weeks. 310
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EVELINA Good Heaven! what an anxious search have I had, to dis-cover your abode, since you so suddenly left town! The termagant,Madame Duval, refused me all intelligence. Oh, Miss Anville,did you know what I have endured! the sleepless, restless stateof suspense I have been tortured with, you could not, all cruel asyou are, you could not have received me with such frigid indiffer-ence ? Received you, Sir! Why, is not my visit to you? Do you think I should havemade this journey, but for the happiness of again seeing you? Indeed it is possible I might, — since so many others do. Cruel, cruel girl! you know that I adore you! you know youare the mistress of my soul, and arbitress of my fate! Mrs. Selwyn then advancing to us, he assumed a more disen-gaged air, and asked, if he should not have the pleasure of seeingher in the evening at the assembly? Oh, yes, cried she, we shall certainly be there; so you maybring the verses with you, if Miss Anville can wait for them solong. I hope then,

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