Tales and Novels Volume III Part 65

[1] This declaration was taken from the lips of a celebrated character.

[2] The manners, if not the morals, of gentlemen, have improved since the first publication of this work. Swearing has gone out of fashion.

But Sir Philip Baddely's oaths are retained, as marks in a portrait of the times held up to the public, touched by ridicule, the best reprobation.

[3] The b.l.o.o.d.y hand is the heraldic designation of the baronet.

[4] "Would Chloe know if you're alive or dead, She bids her footman put it in her head."

[5] See Adventures of a Guinea, vol. i. chap. xvi.

[6] Marmontel.

[7] See Edwards's History of the West Indies, vol. ii.

[8] Miscellaneous Pieces by Mrs. Barbauld and Dr. Aikin.

[9] we spare the reader the medical journal of Lady Delacour's health for some months. Her recover was gradual and complete.

[10] A fact.