Diary Letters of Madame Darblay 1778 1840 volume 5
Diary Letters of Madame Darblay 1778 1840 volume 5
Burney Fanny
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For circumstances — pecuniary ones I mean — never have power to distress me, unless I fear exceeding their security ; and that fear these times will sometimes inflict. Tlie new threefold assessment of taxes has terrified us rather seriously ; though the necessity, and therefore justice, of them, we mutually feel. My father thinks his own share will amount to £80 a year ! 1797 THE AUTHOR OF 'EVELINA' 351 We have, this very morning, decided upon parting with four of our new windows, — a great aba...tement of agremens to ourselves, and of ornament to our appearance ; and a still greater sacrifice to F amour propj'e of my architect, who, indeed, — his fondness for his edifice considered, — does not ill deserve praise that the scheme had not his mere consent, but his own free proposition. Your idea that my builder was not able to con- duct us hither, I thank God, is unfounded. His indiscretion was abomhiable, but so characteristic that I will tell it you. Some little time before, he brought me home a dog, a young thing, he said, which had hit his fancy at Ewell, where he had been visiting JNI.
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