ABSTRACT

Lady Belfield contracted with Emily a more passionate degree of friendship than a lady of her high rank, in general, is capable of experiencing; but her Ladyship is one of those not very rare instances, we imagine, where we observe an amiable and ingenious female studiously annihilating her virtues and her talents in the giddy, and often criminal, vortex of dissipation. Nature will sometimes prevail over Fashion.