ABSTRACT
A cheerful fire blazed in the grate – that apartment was well-furnished – and the breakfast materials, neatly arranged upon a tray, stood on the table by the side of the bed. The air of comfort which pervaded the place struck the seamstress as being positively luxurious after the chill and cheerless aspect of her own garret; and the genial warmth of the atmosphere struck as gratefully upon her shivering frame as a kind word falls beneficently upon the afflicted spirit. The page touched his hat and jumped into the vehicle; while the young gentleman proceeded in the track of the beautiful seamstress who was now about thirty yards a-head. The female herself was pretty, sharp-witted, intriguing, and possessed of much tact; and by aid of a suitable affectation of speech, she contrived to sustain her assumed character of a Frenchwoman with tolerable success.
