Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ... fellow, I am afraid, is very bad: I have been thinking of a way to give him a little consolation. I suspect he is in love with Mary, the housemaid; for, one morning, early, I found them talking closely together, and she was covered with blushes. Couldn't you contrive, without hurting his feelings, to get her to attend on him in his illness f "Accordingly, soon after, when he was about to set off for Hastings, I went to see him. 'Have you nobody, ' I asked him, 'whom you would like to go to the sea-side with you?--your sister or your mother V 'No, thank you, lady.' 'There is the still-room maid, would you like her V 'Ah, my lady, she has a great deal to do, and is always wanted.' From one to another, I, at last, mentioned Mary, and I saw 1 had hit on the right person; but, however, he only observed, he should like to see her before he went. Mary was, therefore, sent to him; and the result of their conversation was, that he told her he would marry her if he recovered, or leave her all he had if he died--which he did. "Mr. Pitt once obtained a servant in a very odd way. Riding on the moors with a friend, they came to one of those flocks of geese, which, picked of their feathers, are driven about by a boy, with a bit of red raw at the end of a long stick. 'We must ride round, ' said Mr. Pitt; 'we shall never get through this immense flock.' 'Yes, but you may, ' cried a sharplooking boy, who had heard him, 'if you will only keep your horses quiet. Sh--sh--ee--ee--ayi--ayi I' and the boy waved his stick here and there, and in a minute or two the flock opened, and, wheeling to the left and right in regular columns, made a passage, through which they rode. 'That must be a clever lad, ' observed Mr. Pitt; 'he manoeuvres his little army in a...
