Amelia -- Volume 1

g with Booth, and some endeavours to prove, by reason and authority,

Booth and Miss Matthews; and their meeting now in so extrao

hereupon he had been shewn to her from the window of the house; that she immediately recollected him, and, being informed of his distressful situation, for which she expressed great concern, she had sen

very little wondered at the disorder of her spirits, concluding that he

captain! captain! many extraordinary things have passed since last I saw you. O gr

or its own relief than all his friendly consolations. Having vented this in a large flood of tears, she became pretty well composed; but Booth unhappily mentioning her father, she again relapsed into an agony,

say the truth, these are, I believe, as critical discharges of nature as any of those which are so called by the physicians,

ftness, of which she was a perfect mistress, she said, "I do not wonder at your amazement, Captain Booth, nor indeed at the concern which you so plainly discover for me; for I well know the goodness of your natu

e the penknife to his heart. Unkind fortune, that not one drop of his blood reached my hand.-Indeed, sir, I would never have washed it from it.-But, though I have not the happiness to see it on my hand, I have the glorious satisfaction of remembering I saw it run in rivers on the floor; I saw it forsake his cheeks, I saw him fall a martyr to

lips; nor can we wonder at this, though he was the bravest of men; for her voice, her looks, her gestures, were properly adapted to the sentime

e then gave a loo

u say, of the murder; but do you know the cause, Mr. Booth? Have you since your return to England visited tha

ou cannot be acquainted with all the strange accidents which have occasioned your seeing me in a place which at our last parting was so unlikely that I should ever have been found in; nor c

desire of knowing her story. Upon which, with very little previous c

ng softness should, the very next moment after the words were out of her mouth, express sentiments becoming the lips of a Dalila, Jezebel, Medea, Semiramis, Parysatis, Tanaquil, Livilla, Messalina, Agrippina, Brunichilde, Elfrida, Lady Macbe

breath, gathers a nosegay of white roses to deck the whiter breast of Celia; and in which, on the 11th of June, the very next day, the boisterous Boreas, roused by the hollow thunder,

ens might envy, warbles the harmonious song in praise of the young adventurer; and again, the next day, or, perhaps the next hour, with fiery

such kind of similes, as being too favourable to Jaco

the way? what pity it is such a creature should be in the way of ruin, as I am afraid she is, by her being alone with that young fellow!" Now this lady was no bad physiognomist, for it was impossible to conceive a greater appearance of modesty, innocence, and simplicity, than what nature had displayed in the countenance of that girl; and yet, all appeara