ABSTRACT
Such was the issue of this day’s adventure, which seemed to open new prospects to the aspiring views of Edward – for certain it is, the service he had now rendered to Lady Cecilia was greater than that which rst introduced him to her notice, and his personal courage and prowess were more advantageously displayed. Her ladyship no sooner alighted than she waited upon her father, where Captain Rivers soon joined her, and related to his lordship all the circumstances of her wonderful escape. e terror of the recital where the horses approached the precipice in full speed, made him tremble so that the chair in which he was sitting shook under him; but when he heard of the gallant action by which his daughter was rescued from instant death, he folded her to his bosom, and burst into tears. e agitation of his mind indeed/ was so great that it overpowered his body, and he was obliged to lie down; – not, however, without sending, by Captain Rivers, the warmest acknowledgments to Ned Evans, with an assurance of an indelible remembrance of this new and signal favour which his noble and gallant conduct had conferred upon him.
