Excerpt from The Newcomes, Vol. 2: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family How by degrees this slippery penitent was induced to make other confessions; how we got an idea of Mrs. Rid ley's account from him, of his dealings with Mr. Sher rick, need not be mentioned here. The conclusion to which Colonel Newcome's ambassador came was, that to help such a man would be quite useless; and that the Fleet Prison would be a most wholesome retreat for this most reckless divine. Ere the day was out, Messrs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Newcomes, Vol. 2 of 4: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family British art either finds. her peculiar nourishinent in melancholy, and loves to fix her abode in desert places; or it may be her purse is but slenderly furnished, and she is forced to put up with accommodations rejected by more prosperous callings. Some of the most dismal quarters of the town are colonised by her disciples and professors. In walking through streets which may have been gay and polite when ladies chairmen jostled each other on the pavement, and link-boys with their torches lighted the beaux over the mud; who has not remarked the artists invasion of those regions once devoted to fashion and gaiety? Centre windows of drawing rooms are enlarged so as to reach up into bed-rooms - bed-rooms where Lady Betty has had her hair powdered, and where the painters north-light now takes possession of the place which her toilet-table occupied a hundred years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.