f Count Rumford. 313 



be amiss. I tr 



had a great lo ; have implied more tfian once that I 

 natural. She jeration for my mother. It was very 

 hood and brou care f me m m y infancy and child- 

 approve the ha I recollected often hearing her dis- 

 seeking medicafr ave on tne slightest indisposition of 

 her as on her Y et ? P oor woman ! I best recollect 

 never had eve, w ' tn l ^e doctor by her side, for she 

 more than is ah health. Children hear and reflect 

 story of my fa net ^- I remembered her telling a little 

 whole house mi if anything ailed even a finger, the 

 present instand n an uproar about it. S'o that, in the 

 emetic, which Y tne physician arriving left me an 

 the precepts of ' an( l would not take, I only followed 

 perfectly freed (' instead of those of my father. I was 

 medicine. r der in a short time without the least 



" In one of 



except that th jac k excursions we had the usual party, 

 ment. It r ss was kept back by a previous engage- 

 troublesomr tuna te, for our horses were restive and 



as usuajh so that, when we arrived at the Garden, 



Spreti -ination, my father told one of his aids 



the same 1 him, and the other to stay with me ; and 

 out. VJoms. He wished to let Fawn have his run 

 to hav/ggi n g a long when Tancred started and like 

 -.F^rt-'n me. Count Taxis, frightened, said to me in 

 (which I did not suppose he knew much of, we never 

 speaking the language, and which, therefore, surprised me) 

 1 Take care, my dear ! ' From my looking down and making 

 no reply, he thought I was offended. He drew his horse near to 

 mine, and, looking me archly in the face, asked me if I did not 

 think that in learning English he learned pretty things. I told 

 him it depended on the sincerity of them. I spoke without 

 reflection, but think he construed them into more seriousness 

 than I really meant, by his dwelling some time on assurances 

 of the sincerity of his words and thoughts towards me. 



41 By an unforeseen accident, if these assertions were true, he 

 was called upon to feel and express more forcibly than by simple 



