The Child of Misfortune, or, the History of Mrs Gilbert

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: feearing from' her, I prepared myfelf for departure, and having taken leave of my friends and relations with a forrowfui keart, I repaired on board the fhip whichi was to convey me to the oriental world. The wind being fair, we foon got clear of the Downs, and fhortly after loft Cght of land, which I kept...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: feearing from' her, I prepared myfelf for departure, and having taken leave of my friends and relations with a forrowfui keart, I repaired on board the fhip whichi was to convey me to the oriental world. The wind being fair, we foon got clear of the Downs, and fhortly after loft Cght of land, which I kept in view as long as poffible; and recommending my Fanny ta the eare of that Providence which eternalff -watches over the children of nren, we proceeded on our voyage, and with, very little accident at length arrived fefe on the continent of Alia C H A .' t: .'j. G H A P. VII. Contains fame Affairs of a dome/lie Nature, toecejjary to be known. A School for the' SenfuaHft, and a Csnteft betwixt Pkafure and Pbilofopby difagreeably terminated. f I O 'keep as much as poflible the 1 A knowledge of our marriage from the ears of Lord Meanwell, and to avoid the confequences which might naturally be expected to arife from an information fo unfortunate and impolitic, we had contrived, previous to my departure, that each mould adopt fome other appellation. For this purpofe, I'removed my Fanny into a different part of the town, where I furnifhed her a houfe, and provided every neceflary domeftic for her as a ifs Wilmot, and at which place I vifited under the borrowed name of Gandon. Before I left her, me acquainted me, -with a blufh which reflected additional grace, that fhe was pregnant. This af- furance adminiftered greatly to my fatif-: faction, and gave me to hope, that on my return I mould have the tranfporting.de- light to fee a renewal of our joys rendered, more permanent and binding by the tender pledges of a paffion which was founded on the bafts of real and difinterefted love. - Putto return.? I continued in India near three years, during: whi...