A TALE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. IN TWO VOLUMES. Heureux qui ne livre son cœur qu'a des sentiments doux et MADAME DE GENLIS. VOL. I. EDINBURGH: Printed by Thomas Allan & Company, FOR G. R. CLARKE, SOUTH ST ANDREW'S STREET, AND LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, & BROWN, LONDON. 249. v.301. SELF-INDULGENCE. CHAP. I. THE FIRST INTERVIEW. SOPHIA DICKENS was the only child of a wealthy merchant in Bishopsgate Within; she had attained her seventeenth year, and was as beautiful and as frivolous as Nature, and a fashionable boarding school, could make her. Being summoned to her father's house one day unexpectedly, what was her astonishment at finding, instead of her parents, a very handsome young man, whose air and address were a passport to every woman's good opinion. Surprise, mingled with pleasure, flushed So |