Page:Modern literature (1804 Volume 2).djvu/11

 ''Errant with a Female 'Squire. Letters that waited Hamilton on his Return to Brighton. Mortimer and he repair to the Library. There find Mr. Scribble instructing the celebrated Mrs. Somerieve on the Rules of Novel Writing.''                                                  Page 77

CHAP. XIV.

''Party at Captain Mortimer's. Mrs. Somerive one of the Company. Conversation. Discussion of that Lady's Orphan of Pembroke. Succession of Songs, and their Effects on the different Sentiments and Feelings. A Letter in a Woman's Hand is brought to Hamilton, while sitting by Maria. Uneasiness of the young Lady. Hamilton leaves the Company. Greatly agitated, Maria retires. Dialogue between her and Hamilton's Sister Charlotte on Constancy. Hamilton has an Interview with his Correspondent who proves to be the Countess of Cockatrice. Accommodating Complaisance of the Lady of the Toy-Shop. Hamilton is visited by Scribble, brim-full of Joy. He announces that he is now dubbed a Doctor by''