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IN WHICH THE DAUGHTERS OF THE GREAT MEL HAVE TO DIGEST HIM.
AT DINNER You must know, if you would form an estimate of the Countess's heroic impudence, that a rumour was current in Lymport that the fair and well-developed Louisa Harrington, in her sixteenth year, did advisedly, and with the intention of rendering the term indefinite, entrust her guileless person to Mr.George Uplift's honourable charge.

The rumour, unflavoured by absolute malignity, was such; and it went on to say, that the sublime Mel, alive to the honour of his family, followed the fugitives with a pistol, and with a horsewhip, that he might chastise the offender according to the degree of his offence.

It was certain that he had not used the pistol: it was said that he had used the whip.

The details of the interview between Mel and Mr.George were numerous, but at the same time various.