ABSTRACT
Mrs. Morley, on her return to London, hired a convenient though not splendid lodging at the west end of the town. The change in her situation, from that which her former days had presented, produced little or no effect upon her feelings. Conscious that her present plan of economy originated in a proud spirit, which panted for independence, as well as in a desire to act honourably, she little cared what an interested world thought respecting the apparent decrease of her usual expenses. Mrs. Morley knew that the mind derived no importance from adventitious circumstances; she therefore left it to the dull and the unenlightened to display the only distinctions they possessed, the favours of fortune; while she looked down with a sigh of commiseration on the weary children of folly and dissipation.
