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++++ The Cross-Bath Guide; Being The Correspondence Of A
Respectable Family Upon The Subject Of A Late Unexpected
Dispensation Of Honours George Watson-Taylor null Printed for T.
Underwood, 1815
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LETTER II. FROM MISS MARGARET CAPPER TO MISS DINAH CAPPER,
CROSS-BATH, BATH. Crutched Friars, January, 1815. Dear Di, I am
sure you'll be happy to know, That we're all safe in London, tho'
uncle's so, so; He was quite overcome, on embracing Sir Thomas, And
we fear'd the old man was at last taken from us; But he rallied
again; and when dinner was ready, He was placed in his chair, and
there sat he steady, Till the cloth was removed, when a toast he
an- nounced; At the toast that was coming, ah how my heart bounced
" Here's the Knight of the Cross, and the Hitchins's pride " And
wept, as his son he with tenderness eyed; Poor dear Lady Hitchins
looked just like a ghost, As she tried, but in vain, to go through
with the toast;And we all were such fools, that our joy was like
sorrow, Till we thought of the honour design'dTor to-morrow. Oh
Dinah, I cannot recount half the stories, Of happiness, flowing
from Thomas's glories, Such cards, and such compliments, parties,
and dinners We shall all by his brilliant promotion be winners. You
have heard of Lord Hollowton's grandfather's fate, With whom, when
apprentice, my uncle was great; In the' ironmonger's line, what a
fortune he made; How Jack, the third boy, took the law for his
trade, Whose son very lately, by one of those chances Which equally
merit or folly advances, Has risen in fortune, in rank, and in
station, And now in return serves?(for nothing ?) the nation; You
know how my uncle has fretted and stew'd, To get by the grandson
the friendship renew'd, For visits on visits has thought it so
hard, Lord H? could not drop at Crutch'd Friars his card: Well;
would you believe it ? when home we return'd, On the chimney-piece
stuck up, a card we discern'd, By which (though he cut my good
uncle an...
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