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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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suspence.
CHAPTER XVII.
Enigmatical letter from Mrs. Lindsey....Painful state of
.An interesting letter answered....Full
testimony borne to the excellence of the Author's newly
acquired friend....His unfortunate visit at Warley.
Fatal effects of a damp bed....His illness....Visited
in London by Mr. Lindsey....Leaves England....His
death....The Author's affliction....A dangerous ill-
ness the effect of extreme and long-continued anxiety.
....Important inquiry respecting the government and
providence of God... The uses and improvement of
such afflictive dispensations......
CHAPTER XVIII.
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Conscientious scruples of Mr. Lindsey.... The Author's
first intimation of the determination to which they
tended....The reasons of the delay....Difficulties to
be encountered....Noble conduct of Mrs. Lindsey.
....Gradual and calm preparation for the coming
event.. ....The children in the parish inoculated....
Minute attention of Mr. Lindsey....His plan of a re-
formed liturgy....Doubts, whether a promise of the
living of Catterick might be solicited by the Author for
her brother....Reasons for deciding in the negative... 146
CHAPTER XIX.
Mr. Lindsey preaches the Assize Sermon at York....Com-
municates his intention to Mr. Mason....His dis-
suasive arguments and violent opposition....The dis-
tress of his friend....Reflections on the power of dif
ferent situations, to influence the judgment....Oppo-
sition and discouragement on every side....Liberal
offer of the Earl of Huntingdon....Declined by Mr.
Lindsey....
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CHAPTER XX.
Mr. Lindsey's Farewell Sermon....The heart-felt grief
of the crowded audience....Extract of a letter from
Mrs. Lindsey....The Author accompanies them to
Wakefield....Their kind reception from Mr. Mason.
....Extract of a letter from Mrs. Lindsey....Abuse
of Mr. Lindsey in the York Chronicle....Ably defend-
ed by Mr. Cappe....The Author's first introduction
to him....
CHAPTER XXI.
The Author returns to Bedale....Her brother resigns his
curacy. 1....Takes a farm....A visit to London....
Situation of Mr. and Mrs. Lindsey....Visits her late
Nostel friend. Makes an excursion to Bath....Re-
turns to London....Her friend's afflicting seizure....
Her exemplary fortitude and resignation....Her
death....Some account of her friend's daughter....
The Author leaves London.... . .
CHAPTER XXII.
The Author's return to Bedale....Her state of mind.
Feels the loss of Mr. and Mrs. Lindsey....Spends the
Christmas and summer holidays with the little daughter
of her late friend....She and her mother leave Bedale,
and take up their abode at Stank-house....Some ac-
count of her principal Leeds friends...
CHAPTER XXIII.
The Author assists her friend, Mrs. Eamonson, in esta
blishing a Female Benefit Club....In abridging a
work of Mr. Hanway's....Singular trait of character
in a new acquaintance....Her extraordinary piety and
benevolence....Pecuniary anxiety respecting the result
of farming plans and experiments...
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CHAPTER XXIV.
The Author visits an acquaintance in London....Project
of a school....Difficulties respecting its execution....
The negative of her aunts....Character of these old
ladies....Illustration of Dr. Hartley.......
CHAPTER XXV.
Completion of the Female Benefit Club....The unspeakable
advantage of useful occupation....Accident of the
Author's brother....Further developement of his mul-
tiplied embarrassments....Expedients adopted....Re-
admitted to the house of her uncle....His death....
Visits the little daughter of the late Mrs. W. in York-
shire....Her delicate health....Her extraordinary
attainments....
CHAPTER XXVI.
Great pecuniary distress at Stank-house....Great per-
plexities and difficulties....Friendly assistance of Mr.
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.............A season of great calamity....Sudden sickness
and death of a kind neighbour....Fortitude of his
widow....That of the Author put to some trial....
Stank-house given up.........
CHAPTER XXVII.
The Author and her mother visit Thorp-Arch....Com-
pany there....How received by them....A revolution
in their favour....The Author's brother retires into
Craven....Summer spent among friends....Decided
to fix in York....Reasons of that decision........
don....
CHAPTER XXVIII.
The Author visits her young friend Miss Winn, in Lon-
...Her declining health....Her uncommon men-
tal and moral progress.... Her very striking and
lamented death.....
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