ABSTRACT
The distress of Miss Evans for her father’s supposed illness had given a temporary diversion to lady Monteith’s ideas; but they soon recurred to the contemplation of her own sorrows. The affecting scene of the preceding evening, by reviving all her former tenderness, gave that importance to her friend’s judgment of which it had been for some time deprived; and while she recollected / the impressive earnestness and indisputable sincerity with which it was delivered, she deemed it at least entitled to attention; and she determined to scrutinize the principles on which she had founded her opinion of Fitzosborne.
