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- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Select Bibliography
- Note on the Text
- The Invisible Spy
- BOOK I
- BOOK II
- VOL. II
- BOOK III
- BOOK IV
- VOL. III
- BOOK V
- BOOK VI
- BOOK VII
- BOOK VIII
- CHAP. I Contains a brief detail of such occurrences as presented themselves to the Author's observation in an evening's Invisible ramble thro' several parts of this metropolis
- CHAP. II Relates some farther incidents of a pretty particular nature, which fell under the Author's observation in the same evening's Invisible progression
- CHAP. III Though it appears to be no more than a continuation of the same evening's ramble, yet it presents the reader with an adventure of much more importance to the public than any contained in the two last foregoing chapters.
- CHAP. IV Relates some passages which, if the Author is not very much mistaken in his conjectures, will draw sighs of compassion from many a tender heart of both sexes
- CHAP. V May possibly become the subject of some future Comedy, as there is nothing in the story that can be objected to by the Licence-Office
- CHAP. VI Will put a final period to the suspense of my readers, in relation to Clerimont and Charlotte
- CHAP. VII This the Author has calculated chiefly for the speculation of the serious part of his readers, and is short enough to be easily pass'd over by the more gay and unattentive
- CHAP. VIII Contains such a sort of method for the cure of an amorous constitution, as perhaps there are more ladies than one who will not think themselves obliged to the Author for revealing
- Editorial Notes
- Silent Corrections
CHAP. IV - Relates some passages which, if the Author is not very much mistaken in his conjectures, will draw sighs of compassion from many a tender heart of both sexes
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- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Select Bibliography
- Note on the Text
- The Invisible Spy
- BOOK I
- BOOK II
- VOL. II
- BOOK III
- BOOK IV
- VOL. III
- BOOK V
- BOOK VI
- BOOK VII
- BOOK VIII
- CHAP. I Contains a brief detail of such occurrences as presented themselves to the Author's observation in an evening's Invisible ramble thro' several parts of this metropolis
- CHAP. II Relates some farther incidents of a pretty particular nature, which fell under the Author's observation in the same evening's Invisible progression
- CHAP. III Though it appears to be no more than a continuation of the same evening's ramble, yet it presents the reader with an adventure of much more importance to the public than any contained in the two last foregoing chapters.
- CHAP. IV Relates some passages which, if the Author is not very much mistaken in his conjectures, will draw sighs of compassion from many a tender heart of both sexes
- CHAP. V May possibly become the subject of some future Comedy, as there is nothing in the story that can be objected to by the Licence-Office
- CHAP. VI Will put a final period to the suspense of my readers, in relation to Clerimont and Charlotte
- CHAP. VII This the Author has calculated chiefly for the speculation of the serious part of his readers, and is short enough to be easily pass'd over by the more gay and unattentive
- CHAP. VIII Contains such a sort of method for the cure of an amorous constitution, as perhaps there are more ladies than one who will not think themselves obliged to the Author for revealing
- Editorial Notes
- Silent Corrections
Summary
The next morning, in running over in my mind the detail of the transactions of the evening before, the vexation I had receiv'd on the score of Betty Canning very much subsided, and I look'd upon the whole thing as below a serious consideration; – I could not help, indeed, retaining some concern that the people of England should be so infatuated as to suffer their thoughts to be led astray and alienated from affairs of the greatest consequence by such an idle story; but as I doubted not but that the imposition she had been guilty of would be detected, though her abettors might perhaps find means to screen her person from the punishment, I became more easy, and resolved to banish as much as possible all remembrance of it.
But my ideas were widely different in regard to poor Clerimont; – as much a stranger as he was to me I was convinced, by what I had seen and heard, that as he had no stock of ready money to prevent the mortgage he had made of his reversion, so I was equally assured, by his despair, that he had no visible means of raising a sum sufficient to redeem it. – His calling on the name of Charlotte with so much vehemence made me also not doubt but that he had some tender attachment, which he fear'd would be broke through by what he had done.
Though I know no vice for which I have a more real contempt than the love of gaming, yet the age of this gentleman, which could not exceed above two or three and twenty, seem'd to me a very moving plea in his behalf, and the graces of his mein and aspect so much interested me in his favour, that I less blamed his inadvertency than compassionated the misfortune it had brought him into.
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- The Invisible Spyby Eliza Haywood, pp. 443 - 448Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014