ABSTRACT
Miss Watkin’s attendance not being now necessary, she returned home to her father, who indeed could not do very conveniently without her, and who (considering his temper) had submitted with wonderful patience and good humour to want her so long. She le Lady Cecilia with in nite regret; and though it was but a small distance from Mr. Evans’s to her father’s, yet she shed as many tears at parting as if they never were to meet again: but Lady Cecilia, who had a sincere regard for her, and thought herself much indebted to her for her attendance, made her promise to come as o en as she could, while she should still be obliged to remain in the country. Air and exercise being recommended to her as essential to her recovery, she borrowed a little pony from Miss Watkin, which had been well broke for her/ riding; and Ned Evans had the supreme felicity of attending her, sometimes on foot, and sometimes on his father’s horse, in all her little excursions. He fed and dressed the little pony himself, cleaned the silver bit, and took care that all about him should be completely neat, for the charming burthen he was to carry. He did not neglect his own dress, nor the appearance of the horse which he was to ride; being solicitous, in every thing, to appear attentive to the amiable and elegant Cecilia.
