ABSTRACT
After a pensive ramble of above two hours, Ethelinde returned to the house. Only the inferior servants were yet risen; and Ethelinde, having in vain wandered over several rooms in search of a book, to amuse her in the long interval she yet had to pass before breakfast, was at length shewn by one of the house maids into a small dressing room, where the young ladies were accustomed to sit in a morning, and where the servant assured her there were variety of books. Books, however, there were none, but two or three novels which Ethelinde had already read; but under the harpsichord were several French news papers scattered among the music books which lay there. Ethelinde took them to read, and seeing, in one of those of the latest date, East India news, it immediately caught her attention.
