The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829. Various

it was burnt with all my heart, that I do; making you so lammancholy as it always do."

      And well might this trunk make Mr. Hardingham melancholy, for it was the receptacle of letters and little gifts of a lady who had jilted him in early life; and upon whom he had often vowed vengeance. She was yet unmarried; but—no—her once devoted admirer was resolved to follow the lady's advice, and place his "affections upon a worthier object than Caroline Dalton;" and, thought he to himself, she shall at last see that I have found one; nor shall wild Tom, my graceless nephew, who lives upon my fortune, ever more touch one penny of it. The postman rapped, and in a few minutes his housekeeper appeared with many apologies for bringing to him her own newspaper, but perhaps in it he might be able to find the names of some of the new novels that he wished to have.

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      Occasioned by a transposition of figures. In vol. xi. referred to in the above page, the date stands 1671.