CAROLIM \ f ENGLAND 29 



aa oompensat itlier a thousand pounds 



lie low - ^rvice* at concert*. It was an 



. n.in. ntl\ .liscr, hosines* all FOUi ' th. 



want admirers, especially 

 v which -d to Bath in 1771. Two 



members were Richard Brinaley Sheridan and hi- 

 . Charles, buth .f them aa poor aa their 

 AS foolishly proud, though *ith 

 better reason. Tho girl preferred I an<l in 



that ahowed her good sense. Bat she was said to be 

 - . th..r,.u-h .1 r she was at the same tm. 



-i\in- Charl.^ t i.-m-l ho was the favoured 



Li \\ii\g that IUT fathrr'ncoiuicnt to 



rriagewith Kichnrd would be refused, she eloped 

 and was placed by him in a con- 

 r.mu-ht hack hy IP r she was ma 



ulr this comedy 



was proceeding at ] 1 made a brief run 



across t<* n April 1772, and returned for 



M. i- in August He was able to settle a small 

 annuity on his mother in compensation for the loss 

 Caroline's removal would entail on the housr 



I'-is. If to be her mot lave, to be bought 



and sold. Afu?r a journey of ton days, they reached 

 London on th* -juth of August, when'. the shops 



were lighted up, th. to see all that was to be 



seen, of which sh<- -<nl\ n-inembered the opticians' 

 hope, for she did not think tl '^edatan 



1 ' Mrm. SberiiUn U with tu," Hannah More writes to bar filter at 

 Bristol in 1778, ' and her htuband comet down on ereaingk I find I 

 hare mi* taken this lady ; the U unaffected and aenaible ; oonraraat and 

 nad wctmnely well, and writat prettily." Mra. Sheridan wa. nine or 

 ten yean younger than Hannah Morr. 



