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shooting in Scotland , hunting-box in Leicestershire , gaoel pact : of fox-hounds . " " Jk&fitykwe&pemA **! my * Ab * W& r x" never smokes , box at the Opera /* It never occurs to any one to ask , whether the woman really likfs the inan whose companion she Fa to be , perhaps for forty or fifty years . "
Julia Vernon marries Lord Montreville , who suffered from 4 indigestion , and was blown / the thought of doing which * made her sick ; ' her mother , the Lady Ellinor , having au ^ oeeded in ' jockeying' him . i \ t the same time Julia is u * tove with Mr . Stuart , the ' penniless scamp , ' and she renounces him after a scene which may be taken as a specimen t > f-the
bombastic extravagance of style in these * tales of fashion and reality , ** as well as a picture of aristocratic morajfty ; for the authoresses profess to painting portraits " ft&n ^' tljp life . Lady Ellinor succeeds after a furious speech , caa ^ rjingj Hell and madness !'—and 'Gracious Powers ! that X B ^ ip i ^ ld be plunged headlong , as it were , into such a gulf o £ ujipe ^ y ! ' Her daugater yields to this shameless prostitution , ancl is then
represented as dying for love ! Now , her onl y acquaintapce with Mr . Stuart amounted to the pleasure ef having occasionally ' galopped ' with him ; seen him in the park , ( fee . But grajQtinflf this to have been sufficient to induce a strong passion ,
y $ t j £ ] ieJady in relating one of her last interviews # ] $ h him , expresses herself thus : — " I quietly seated myself , and ' began siTO'fjig a Vfery hot cup of tea , a very good excuse , bp th&ibtiy , wfj ^ jp you wish to have a good flirting hotit "—p . 11 ^ : It is not suchyoung ladies who die for love , : _ _ ¦ ¦ '¦ • ' ¦ ¦( i
T \> the writers of this book , we are far from intending to ottfjr ifay idvlce , and- equally far from contemplating ai * y rude perpo ^ aJlIties . l ney may be y oung , liandsome , good natuinid , avj £ '' 6 p ri ^ hily persons in themselves ; but as we do n *> t <* toisticutfe kny part of their notion of an ' intelligent public , ' verdjet is in ' natural accordance with tliat lritefortmie . In recording this , however , we have not beeh very particnlarly
inBueilced by tiny such nonsense as may be associated with the ictea of U want of gallantry , or the gallant and the iin-gall&tit ! Tiheic Tales of Fashion ancl Reality are so true to their titles— - 3 Q e ^ lusively fashionable , vulgar , immoral , and ntattef of ftfcLthat we verily believe the h < iiit-ton itself will feel almost asimined of them . Nor is this too much to expect , for even the "" Literary Gazette cannot i hdtoh tip '' an' article in tiieir praise .
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408 Tales of Fathiou aud Realify .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page 408, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/16/
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