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: LETTER II. FROM MISS MARGARET CAPPER TO MISS DINAH CAPPER, CROSS-BATH, BATH. Crutched Friars, January, 1815. Dear Di, I am sure you’ll be happy to know, That we’re all safe in London, tho’ uncle’s so, so; He was quite overcome, on embracing Sir Thomas, And we fear’d the old man was at last taken from us; But he rallied again; and when dinner was ready, He was placed in his chair, and there sat he steady, Till the cloth was removed, when a toast he an- nounced; At the toast that was coming, ah! how my heart bounced!
Here’s the Knight of the Cross, and the Hitchins’s pride! And wept, as his son he with tenderness eyed; Poor dear Lady Hitchins looked just like a ghost, As she tried, but in vain, to go through with the toast;And we all were such fools, that our joy was like sorrow, Till we thought of the honour design'dTor to-morrow. Oh! Dinah, I cannot recount half the stories, Of happiness, flowing from Thomas’s glories, Such cards, and such compliments, parties, and dinners! We shall all by his brilliant promotion be winners. You have heard of Lord Hollowton’s grandfather’s fate, With whom, when apprentice, my uncle was great; In the’ ironmonger’s line, what a fortune he made; How Jack, the third boy, took the law for his trade, Whose son very lately, by one of those chances Which equally merit or folly advances, Has risen in fortune, in rank, and in station, And now in return serves?(for nothing ?) the nation; You know how my uncle has fretted and stew’d, To get by the grandson the friendship renew’d, For visits on visits has thought it so hard, Lord H? could not drop at Crutch’d Friars his card: Well; would you believe it ? when home we return’d, On the chimney-piece stuck up, a card we discern’d, By which (though he cut my good uncle an…
