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    ously from the mark , is out of all the bounds of ordinary conversation . We prefer extracting the meeting with Mrs . Essington , who takes the earliest opportunity of making acquaintance with the celebrated Mr . James Eliot . " While the gentlemen were discoursing , several shrill voices were heard on the stairs , among which one was distinctly heard , exclaiming , ' Where is he ? I am all agitation . Where is the dear old gentleman ? ' A moment after which ,

    Mrs . Essington entered with an air all impatience , and without ceremony rushed forward with her hand extended to Mr . Eliot , at the same time pouring forth such a profusion of compliments , that the astonished old gentleman evidently drew back confounded , though he failed not to bow with his usually respectful and modest air . ' Is there no one here / said Mrs . Essington , * to perform the ceremony of introduction ? Miss Clinton , Miss Esther , how you

    forget yourselves ! ' turning to the ladies ; * I am very angry at your slowness . You have compelled me , all impatient as I was , to shock this gentleman b y my forwardness in introducing myself . Come , come , since none of you will speak for me , I am under the necessity of introducing myself ; my name is Essington , and for the last two years I have been d y ing , absolutely dying , to see Mr . Eliot . I should have been here on Saturday or Sunday , but these hard-hearted ladies would not suffer it ; and now I am come , they leave me to

    say all for myself . " ' Well , but now , ' added she , sitting down , ' now we are met , you must tell me , Mr . Eliot , indeed you must tell me , how you left all those dear good creatures in India , all the good people in the jungles . Aye , jungle ; that is the word ; O that delightful account in the Magazine ! Eiear Mr . Eliot ! do tell us all about it ! How , could you part with them ? How could they part with you ? Well I but it is a perpetual feast for you to think how you have laboured

    among the Heathen , and how many are and will be the better for your exertions ! Well ! what a privilege ! what an honour to have been employed in such a work 1 You have lived to some purpose , Mr . Eliot ! you are a happy man . What sweet reflections you will have on your death-bed ! I absolutely envy you . ' During this time the old gentleman remained perfectly silent , but eyeing , with mixed wonder and curiosity , the fair , faded , fashionable creature who thus addressed him with such a mixture of vanity , thoughtlessness and

    good intention . " A good deal more to the same effect passes ; but our Indian Missionary is not yet initiated . After some time has elapsed , during which he has been allowed to follow his own inclination , and bestow his time and attention on such objects as he thinks most deserving , a Missionary Meeting takes place

    in the town , and the clergyman requests he will favour them with his presence and a speech . Somewhat to the surprise of his cousins , he accordingly comes forward , though with some reluctance , yet without perturbation , and gives a plain but interesting account of the state of the people among whom he had resided so long , their wants , and the degree of help which had been

    afforded them . If Mi's . Sherwood's own friends do not quarrel with her for her report of the concluding proceedings of this meeting , we have no business to do so ; but , in fact , we believe her severity will offend very few . It is , we believe , acknowledged by the most judicious and truly religious among the Evangelical party , that a great deal of harm has been done to their cause by the

    lavish panegyrics upon individuals connected with that cause , which have been bestowed by speakers at public meetings . They have not only begun to feel , they have for some time felt , sensible that the effect of these panegyrics is particularly bad , as far as respects the female character , and they will heartily thank Mrs . Sherwood for her assistance in counteracting it . We must make room for Mr . Anthony Beverley ' s speech .

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    • Review . —Mrs , Sherwood ' s Lady of the Manor . 20 £

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1827, page 203, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1794/page/43/