CHAP. XXVII. The same subject continued, XXVIII. Happiness and misery rather the result of prudence than of virtue, in this life; tem- poral evils or felicities being regarded by Heaven as things merely in themselves trifling, and un- worthy its care in the distribution, XXIX. The equal dealings of Providence demon- strated with regard to the happy and the miser- able here below. That, from the nature of plea- sure and pain, the wretched must be repaid the balance of their sufferings in the life hereafter, 318 XXX. Happier prospects begin to appear. Let 419 III. The openings of two characters, with which the reader may afterwards be better acquaint- IV. A very brief account of their education, . V. Paternal instructions Of suspicion and con- VI. In continuation-Of knowledge-Knowledge of the world-Politeness-Honour-Another VII. Introducing a new and capital character, IX. Young Annesly goes to Oxford-The Friend- ship of Sindall-Its consequences,. XI. Annesly gives farther proofs of depravity of manners The effect it has on his father, and tal, XVI. The miseries of him whose punishment is XVII. His father is acquainted with Annesly's situation-His behaviour in consequence of it, 441 XVIII. His sister pays him another visit-A de- scription of what passed in the prison, XIX. The fate of Annesly determined-Sin- dall's friendship, and the gratitude of Harriet, 443 XX. An accident, which may be possibly be ima- gined somewhat more than accidental, XXI. An acount of Annesly's departure, XXII. Harriet is informed of her brother's de- parture-She leaves London on her return home, ib. XXIII. Harriet proceeds on her journey with Ry- land-A very daring attack is made upon them XXIV. The situation of Harriet, and the con- duct of Sindall-They proceed homeward- Some incidents in their journey, XXV. Something farther of Mr Rawlinson, XXVI. Captain Camplin is again introduced- 431 XII. The plan which Sindall forms for oblitera- XIII. He reaches London, where he remains 433 PREFATORY MEMOIR ΤΟ STERNE. LAURENCE STERNE was one of those few authors who have anticipated the labours of the biographer, and left to the world what they desired should be known of their family and their life. 66 Roger Sterne (says this narrative), grandson to Archbishop Sterne, Lieutenant in Handaside's regiment, was married to Agnes Mr Sterne was descended from a family of that name in Suffolk, one of which settled in Nottinghamshire. The following genealogy is extracted from Thoresby's Ducatus Leodinensis, p. 215. Hebert, widow of a captain of a good family. Her family name was (I believe) Nuttle ;-though, upon recollection, that was the name of her father-in-law, who was a noted sutler in Flanders, in Queen Anne's wars, where my father married his wife's daughter, (N. B. he was in debt to him) which was in September 25, 1711, old style. This Nuttle had a son by my grandmother,-a fine person of a man, but a graceless whelp!—what became of him I know not.-The family (if any left) live now at Clonmel, in the south of Ireland; at which town I was born, November 24, 1713, a few days after my mother arrived from Dunkirk.-My birth-day was ominous to my poor father, who was, the day of our arrival, with many other brave officers, broke, and sent adrift into the wide world, with a wife and two children;-the elder of which was Mary. She was born at Lisle, in French Flanders, July 10, 1712, new style.-This child was the most unfortunate:-She married one Weemans, in Dublin, who used her most unmercifully;-spent his substance, became a bankrupt, and left my poor sister to shift for herself; which she was able to do but for a few months, for she went to a friend's house in the country, and died of a broken heart. She was a most beautiful woman, of a fine figure, and deserved a better fate.-The regiment in which my father served being broke, he left Ireland as soon as I was able to be carried, with the rest of his family, and came to the family-seat at Elvington, near York, where his mother lived. She was daughter to Sir Roger Jacques, and an heiress. There we sojourned for about ten months, when the regiment was established, and our household decamped with bag and baggage for Dublin.-Within a month of our arrival, my father left us, being ordered to Exeter; where, in a sad winter, my mother and her two children followed him, travelling from Liverpool, by land, to Plymouth.-(Melancholy description of this journey, not necessary to be transmitted here.)—In twelve months we were all sent back to Dublin. My mother, with three of us (for she lay-in at Plymouth of a boy, Joram) took ship at Bristol, for Ireland, and had a narrow escape from being cast away, by a leak springing up in the vessel. |