ABSTRACT
Rosalie was soon ready to proceed on an expedition, from which she found no pretence would excuse her. She mounted her sister Catharine’s poney with reluctance; her father, mother, and Miss Lessington, were in the post chaise;23 the other sister was also on horseback; and it did not add much to Rosalie’s prospect for the day, that this was her sister Maria who had been put out of humour the preceding evening by the unfortunate and undesired preference Hughson had shewn Rosalie; and who, now sullen and pouting, endeavoured to shew her sister that she had not forgotten the mortification.
