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tion. I doubt it cxtremcl}'. Hear what the lady herself 

 says — 



'' I soon said all I wanted to say upon the subject," she 

 writes. " And soon after a great deal more ; but not 

 soon after was he satisfied. He returned to the same 

 thing a million of times, till I almost fell asleep with the 

 sound of the same words." 



To leave the fair authoress of Evelina for ever, with 

 many thanks for her assistance so far (and I hope that 

 these thanks may reach her wherever she may now 

 chance to be studying character, and regretting eternally 









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her desertion of literature for a servile attendance on a 

 hum-drum court) ; three other travellers on the Brighton 

 Road — and immortal travellers too, as long as English 

 is read — present themselves for notice. 



About the time then when the air was full of the 

 rumours which culminated in Waterloo, Captain Crawley, 

 Captain Osborne, and Mr. Jos Sedley, " were enjoying 

 that beautiful prospect of bow windows on the one side, 

 and blue sea on the other, which Brighton affords to the 

 traveller." Who can forget the incident ? W^ho does 

 not remember the sublime and here first recorded attempt 

 of the immortal Jos to catch the warlike spirit of the 



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