This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 edition. Excerpt: ...succeeded to it, it was much incumbered with debt; and that debt was now greatly increased by his own extravagance. Every year made a new bond or mortgage necessary. Cleora knew all this; but she allowed it not to make any impression on her mind. It was too serious a subject to be suffered to intrude itself in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 edition. Excerpt: ...succeeded to it, it was much incumbered with debt; and that debt was now greatly increased by his own extravagance. Every year made a new bond or mortgage necessary. Cleora knew all this; but she allowed it not to make any impression on her mind. It was too serious a subject to be suffered to intrude itself in the midst of her enjoyments. The mother of a numerous family, she is equally inattentive with Lothario, to giving them proper habits and impressions. The boys, neglecting every useful branch of study, by a strange combination, are both beaux and blackguards. At public places they are reckoned fashionable, while, at the same time, in their private amusements they value themselves on their coarseness and intemperance. The daughters are now come to the age of women; but Cleora has no other object as to them than to increase their fondness for public H 5 places places and late hours: devoted to these herself, she makes her daughters the pretext for her own indulgences. Thus Cleora, if she were to think, if she were to stop her course of dissipation for a moment, would see bankruptcy at hand, and her children, if not herself and her husband, reduced to want; her children brought up without education, and initiated in nothing but the ways of idleness and folly. With all this, Cleora retains a good character in the world: her cheerfulness, her gaiety, make her a favourite wherever she goes. "'Tis a pity," it is sometimes said, " that her "husband was not more attentive to her and "her children; but it is not her fault. She is "indeed to be commended for submitting with so much ease to her sate; one would never. " discover that she was married to Lothario." Such is the general character which Cleora bears;...
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