aughter, who are to
converse in long speeches, elegant language, and a
tone of high serious sentiment. The father to be
induced, at his daughter's earnest request, to
relate to her the past events of his life. This
narrative will reach through the greater part of
the first volume; as besides all the circumstances
of his attachment to her mother, and their
marriage, it will comprehend his going to sea as
chaplain[322] to a distinguished naval character
about the Court; his going afterwards to Court
himself, which introduced him to a great variety
of characters and involved him in many interesting
situations, concluding with his opinion of the
benefits of tithes being done away, and his having
buried his own mother (heroine's lamented
grandmother) in consequence of the High Priest of
the parish in which she died refusing to pay her
remains the respect due to them. The father to be
of a very literary turn, an enthusiast in
literature, nobody's enemy but his own; at the
same time most zealous in the discharge of his
pastoral duties, the model of an exemplary parish
priest.[323] The heroine's friendship to be sought
after by a young woman in the same neighbourhood,
of talents and shrewdness, with light eyes and a
fair skin, but having a considerable degree of
wit[324]; heroine shall shrink from the
acquaintance. From this outset the story will
proceed and contain a striking variety of
adventures. Heroine and her father never above a
fortnight together in one place[325]: he being
driven from his curacy by the vile arts of some
totally unprincipled and heartless young man,
desperately in love with the heroine, and pursuing
her with unrelenting passion. No sooner settled in
one country of Europe than they are necessitated
to quit it and retire to another, always making
new acquaintance, and always obliged to leave
them. This will, of course, exhibit a wide variety
of characters, but there will be no mixture. The
scene will be for ever shifting from one set of
people to another; but all the good[326] will be