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though Florence she had not seen ; but the houses of 

 Bath she found elegant, the streets beautiful, the pros- 

 pects enchanting, and she alighted from her post-chaise 

 at the York House. To her and Mrs. Thrale, as they 

 were in the act of alighting, entered instantly Sir Philip 

 Jenning Gierke '' with his usual alacrity to oblige," and 









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told them of lodgings on the South Parade. Mrs. Thrale 

 immediately hired a house at the left corner. "It was 

 deliciously situated," Miss Burney tells us. " We have 

 meadows, hills. Prior Park, the soft-flowing Avon, what- 

 ever Nature has to offer, I think, always in our view." 

 So ends pleasantly what seems to have been a pleasant 



