The Elegance of the Cottage Sullied by Ignorant Rusticity – a Captive Hero Reduced to Despair

ROSELLA having in some degree composed herself, at length rejoined Miss Beauclerc, who was waiting with extreme impatience the return of her envoy; but though the distance to the great house was little more than a mile and a half, Maclean had not completed his commission in three hours; – indeed, to do him justice, it would have been impossible to listen to the histories poured into his ear by the third table gentry, ³³¹ and in return, suffer others scarcely less instructive to be extracted from him, in a shorter time.