...almost insulting letter, on receiving the first formal intimation of the step she was about to take. "If you have abandoned your children and your religion,...your country, may your folly do no further mischief ! " he exclaims hotly, and begs to be permitted an interview before her fate is irrevocable. But this...

...him, on the 30th of June, but which he seems to have misunderstood, he wrote to her, " MADAM, — If I interpret your letter right, you are ignominiously...mischief. If the last act is yet to do, I who have loved you, esteemed you, reverenced you, and served you, I who long thought you the first of womankind, entreat...

...replied in language of the most earnest expostulation. " If I interpret your letter right," he says, "you are ignominiously married : if it is yet undone,...mischief. If the last act is yet to do, I, who have loved you, esteemed you, reverenced you, and served you, — I, who long thought you the first of womankind,...

...the most earnest expostulation. " If I interpret your letter right," he says, " you are ignomiuiously married : if it is yet undone, let us once more talk...mischief. If the last act is yet to do, I, who have loved you, esteemed you, reverenced you, and served you, — I, who long thought you the first of womankind,...

...I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant. "Bath, June 30, 1784." No. 3.« "MADAM, — If I interpret your letter right, you are ignominiously...you have forfeited your fame and your country, may * What Johnson termed an " adumbration " of this letter appeared in the " Gentleman's Magazine " for...

..." I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant. "Bath, June 30, 1781" No. 3.* "MADAM, — If I interpret your letter right, you are ignominiously...you have forfeited your fame and your country, may * What Johnson termed an " adumbration " of this letter appeared in the " Gentleman's Magazine " for...

...marriage. I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant. Bath, June 30, 1784. No. 3. MADAM, — If I interpret your letter right, you are ignominiously...you have abandoned your children and your religion, liod forgive your wickedness^ if you have forfeited your fame and your country, may your folly do no...

...spirited woman to take quietly, even from a friend so honored. "If you have abandoned," he wrote, " your children and your religion, God forgive your...your country, may your folly do no further mischief." Because she was going to marry a Lombard gentleman, whom fate had driven to teach music in a foreign...

...spirited woman to take quietly, even from a friend so honoured. "If you have abandoned," he wrote, "your children and your religion, God forgive your...your country, may your folly do no further mischief. Because she was going to marry a Lombard gentleman, whom fate had driven to teach music in a foreign...

...for the first time, and which is far too important not to be quoted at length : — " MADAM, — If I interpret your letter right, you are ignominiously married: if it is yet undone, let us o»cf more talk together. li' you have abandoned your children, and your religion, God forgive your...