ABSTRACT
THOUGH the conversation at tea-tables has seldom any thing to recommend it, and is even too o en liable to the just censure of being uncharitable as well as stupid, yet we can assure the reader this tea-table was an exception, and that nothing passed at it inconsistent with the purest sentiments of religion, and the most consummate elegance of manners. When the things were removed the lady retired, and gave Mr. Grainger an opportunity of gratifying Lord Rivers’s curiosity in the following words.
