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Title: Her Season in Bath
A Story of Bygone Days

Author: Emma Marshall

Release Date: July 2, 2010 [EBook #33055]

Language: English

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Her Season in Bath

_A STORY OF BYGONE DAYS_

BY EMMA MARSHALL

AUTHOR OF "BRISTOL DIAMONDS," "THE TOWER ON THE CLIFF," ETC., ETC.

"One loving hour
Full many years of sorrow can dispense.
A dram of sweet is worth a pound of sour."

SPENSER

LONDON
SEELEY & CO., ESSEX STREET, STRAND
1889

[Illustration]

CONTENTS.

I. COIFFEUR

II. THE TIDE OF FASHION

III. ANOTHER SIDE OF THE PICTURE

IV. MUSIC

V. GRISELDA! GRISELDA!

VI. GRAVE AND GAY

VII. THE VASE OF PARNASSUS

VIII. ON THE TRACK

IX. WATCHED!

X. A PROPOSAL

XI. A LETTER

XII. DISCOVERED

XIII. THE PLOT THICKENS

XIV. BRAWLS

XV. CHALLENGED

XVI. IN THE EARLY MORNING

XVII. THE BITTER END

XVIII. IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW

XIX. TEN YEARS LATER--1790

Her Season in Bath

CHAPTER I.

COIFFEUR.

It was the height of the Bath season in 1779, and there was scarcely any
part of the city which did not feel the effect of the great tide of
amusement and pleasure, which set in year by year with ever-increasing
force, and made the streets, and parades, and terraces alive with
gaily-dressed fashionable ladies and their attendant beaux.

The chair-men had a fine trade, so had the mantua-makers and
dressmakers, to say nothing of the hairdressers, who were skilled in the
art of building up the powdered bastions, which rose on many a fair
young head, and made the slender neck which supported them bend like a
lily-stalk with their weight. Such head-gear was appropriate for the
maze of the stately minuet and Saraband, but would be a serious
inconvenience if worn now-a-days, when the whirl of the wal