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CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
The Author's view of human life....Her motives for
writing her Memoirs
CHAPTER I.
...
.Of
Her birth....Some account of the Craven district.
its inhabitants in the early part of the last century.....
Situation of the Vicarage-house at Long Preston.....
Cheapness of provisions....Injudicious treatment of the
small-pox....Widow of Capt. Maurice....Her sin-
gular fortitude....Etiquette of a Statesman's lady....
CHAPTER II.
The Author's father obtains the living of Catterick....
Removes thither....Ideas of beauty, neatness, and order,
felt....Mrs. Maurice an inmate of the family....The
Author's first instructress....The parish in a wretched
state....Regulations and improvements introduced. ..
CHAPTER III.
Hints for the use of parents....Importance of their own
example....Mischiefs of injudicious praise....Lasting
effects resulting from accidental circumstances....From
incidental conversations....Value and importance of
early religious impressions.
CHAPTER IV.
Mischiefs from alarming the imagination of children...
Unmixed, where the danger originates in fiction....
Pernicious even when founded in truth....An instance
of falsehood....How corrected and cured.
CHAPTER V.
The Author sent to school....First reception by her
grandmother....Sketch of the old lady's character; the
evident result of peculiar circumstances, and early strong
associations....Infectious fever at Catterick....For-
titude of the Author's parents....Their preservation.
Beneficial effects of a father's praise...Contrary effects
of unreasonable severity
CHAPTER VI.
The Author again at school....Her reception....False
estimates and maxims....Little fraudulent practices.
....The importance of their correction....The Au-
thor's revered preceptress leaves Catterick.....
..Difficulties
encountered in learning French
CHAPTER VII.
Misfortune of the want of intellectual improvement....
Opinion of the Author's near relatives....Style of con-
versation at the usual routine of town afternoon visits.
....The Author's regret in having little confidential
intercourse with her father....His declining health.
CHAPTER VIII.
History of an admired young lady....Her accomplish-
ments and conquests....Her marriage....Character of
her husband....Mode of spending their time....Speci-
men of matrimonial apathy....Left a widow... Her
second marriage....Wandering life
CHAPTER IX,
Unfavourable influences on the Author's mind....Impor-
tance of knowing the character of early associates....A
train of family anxieties....Unpleasant traits in a
brother's character....His unfavourable situation at
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school....His dislike to study....His admittance at
Cambridge....Mrs. Maurice returns to Catterick....
Misfortunes of her son-in-law....Remarkable memory
of a child four years old.
CHAPTER X.
Declining health of the Author's father....Great increase
of anxiety....Fascination of theatrical representations.
....Causes of a protracted rage for them....Journey
into Craven ...The exertions as a magistrate of the
Author's honoured father....His last illness and death.
....His epitaph....Mr. Lindsey obtains Catterick.
....Pecuniary affairs not prosperous.
CHAPTER XI.
Splendour and hospitality of Nostel....Venerable character
of its owner... . .Miserable contrast in that of his son.
State of the family, when the Author became an
inmate....Fascinating appearance of the son's lady.
....Treatment of the Author....Its termination.
CHAPTER XII.
The Author's mother engages a house at Bedale....Sketch
of the character, and history of a young friend there.
....Richmond Races... .Nostel on the eve of great
revolutions....Marriage of the Author's principal
female friend there....Sudden illness, and death of her
beloved and honoured patron....Immediate change in
her prospects and hopes....Her excessive grief and
dejected state of mind.
CHAPTER XIII.
The Author visits the new baronet and his lady...
Their late hours....Reprehensible conduct....Her
determination to leave them....Hastened by the cruel
and unjustifiable treatment of her brother....The
Nostel vision vanished....Her brother goes into orders.
....Takes a small curacy....Purchases a few fields.
....History of the eventful life of the Author's kind
preceptress until its close....Vicissitudes experienced
by her family.
CHAPTER XIV.
The Author's first introduction to Mr. Lindsey....The
impression made upon her mind by this visit....His
character contrasted with those she had lately left....
Visits other friends....Reasons for declining cards.
....Catterick the source of her purest pleasures...
Leading objects of her friends there....Their family
arrangements....Manner of spending their time....
Habitual self-denial.... Reflections on the temptations
to a habit of dissipation....Its peculiar danger to
young Ministers. .Anecdote of Mr. Lindsey's school-
master
CHAPTER XV.
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The interesting manner of spending Sunday at Catterick.
The Author unable to profit so much as she might have
done... Establishes a sort of Sunday school at Bedale.
Satisfaction arising from it....Its novelty and unpopu
larity....A report circulated to her disadvantage....
Invented from the desire of entertaining.
CHAPTER XVI.
The Author visits Harrogate....Meets an interesting.
stranger....His pleasing manners....General informa-
tion....His attention to the Author....Embarrass-
ment of her situation....The stranger leaves Harrogate.
..Reflections on sudden attachments....The Author's
state of mind.
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