Errant with a Female 'Squire. Letters that
waited Hamilton on his Return to Brighton.
Mortimer and he repair to the Library.
There find Mr. Scribble instructing the celebrated
Mrs. Somerieve on the Rules of Novel
Writing. Page 77
CHAP. XIV.
Party at Captain Mortimer's. Mrs. Somerive
one of the Company. Conversation. Discussion
of that Lady's Orphan of Pembroke. Succession
of Songs, and their Effects on the different
Sentiments and Feelings. A Letter in
a Woman's Hand is brought to Hamilton,
while sitting by Maria. Uneasiness of the
young Lady. Hamilton leaves the Company.
Greatly agitated, Maria retires. Dialogue
between her and Hamilton's Sister Charlotte on
Constancy. Hamilton has an Interview with
his Correspondent who proves to be the Countess
of Cockatrice. Accommodating Complaisance
of the Lady of the Toy-Shop. Hamilton
is visited by Scribble, brim-full of Joy. He
announces that he is now dubbed a Doctor by
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