Chapter 37 A
Great GriefTHIS story really consists of two parts. The first part
might be left out, but it gives us a few particulars, and these are
useful
We were staying in the country at a gentleman's seat,
where it happened that the master was absent for a few days. In the
meantime, there arrived from the next town a lady; she had a pug
dog with her, and came, she said, to dispose of shares in her
tan-yard. She had her papers with her, and we advised her to put
them in an envelope, and to write thereon the address of the
proprietor of the estate, "General War-Commissary Knight,"
&c.
She listened to us attentively, seized the pen, paused,
and begged us to repeat the direction slowly. We complied, and she
wrote; but in the midst of the "General War-" she struck fast,
sighed
