I have, for the benefit of my health,
projected an expedition to the North, which, I hope, will afford
some agreeable pastime. I have never travelled farther that way
than Scarborough; and, I think, it is a reproach upon me, as a
British freeholder, to have lived so long without making an
excursion to the other side of the Tweed. Besides, I have some
relations settled in Yorkshire, to whom it may not be improper to
introduce my nephew and his sister -- At present, I have nothing to
add, but that Tabby is happily disentangled from the Irish
Baronet; and that I will not fail to make you acquainted, from
time to time, with the sequel of our adventures: a mark of
consideration, which, perhaps, you would willingly dispense with
in
Your humble servant,
M. BRAMBLE
BATH, May 8.
To Sir WATKIN PHILLIPS, of Jesus college, Oxon.
DEAR PHILLIPS,
A few days ago we were terribly alarmed by my uncle's fainting at
the ball -- He has been ever since cursing his own folly, for going
thither at the request of an impertinent woman. He declares, he
will sooner visit a house infected with the plague, than trust
himself in such a nauseous spital for the future, for he swears
the accident was occasioned by the stench of the crowd; and that
he would never desire a stronger proof of our being made of very
gross materials, than our having withstood the annoyance, by
which he was so much discomposed.
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