may esteem it
"Are you unmarried, sir?" "I am now, and have ever been single."
1811ff Are you married
1851/70 I am not
numberless suitors have sighed for her hand
1811ff numberless suitors sighed ...
It seemed that if she could but speak with him
1870 ... speak to him
This extraordinary dream she has communicated
1851/70 ... she had communicated
Her father, who has but two children besides herself, being dotingly
fond of her
1811 two children, one besides herself
1851/70 two children, one beside herself
1811 doting
in a rallying way told her I had seen her _invisible beau_
1811 in a railing way
1851/70 told her that I
she thought but little of it
1811ff she thought little of it
my leaving you so abruptly, and of my not returning
1811ff ... and not returning
Now, sir, it is necessary for me farther to explain
1870 Now, sir, it is necessary farther to explain
on reviewing the incidents which led to
1811ff on reviewing the incidents which to
I have experienced a sufficient change of objects and of country
1851/70 ... and country
a silk girdle, with diamond clasps
1811ff a silken girdle ...
Did not Alonzo see her death announced in the public prints?
1851/70 ... her death in ...
And is not all this sufficient to prove
1811ff And is not this ...
However the author may succeed in description
1811ff ... in his description
the bower on her favorite hill
1870 the bower of ...
Have we not, according to the advice of the moralist
[FOOTNOTE]
1804 see _Barometer_, no. 118
their tears fell in one immingling shower
1811ff ... one intermingling shower
you were proof against the whole arcana of beauty
1870 ... the whole arena of beauty
Indeed, sir, I cannot but applaud your discrimination
1811ff ... your determination
the true novel style
1811ff the novel style
"There I confess," said he, looking at Alonzo
1811ff "Then I confess" ...
He is the son of a deceased uncle
1811ff ... my deceased uncle
a servant took charge of Alonzo's carriage
1851/70 ... took care ...
the eldest, a son about ten years of age
1811ff the eldest son, about ten years of age
to its members and its guests.
And here, were we to adopt the method of some novel writers, we
might close our history, and leave it for imagination to paint the
sequel. But there are some _myst