The novels of Charles Brockden Brown, consisting of Wieland;or, The transformation. Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the year 1793. Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a sleep-walker. Jane Talbot. Ormond; or, The secret witness. Clara Howard; or, The enthusiasm of love. With a memoir of the author.

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memoirs, is worthy to be here inserted. However foreign
the destiny of Monrose may at present appear to the
story of the Dudleys, there will hereafter be discovered
an intimate connection between them.
CHAPTER VII.
ADJACENT to the house occupied by Baxter was an
antique brick tenement. It was one of the first erections made by the followers of William Penn. It had
the honour to be used as the temporary residence of that
venerable person. Its moss-grown penthouse, crumbling
walls, and ruinous porch, made it an interesting and picturesque object. Notwithstanding its age, it was still
tenable.
This house was occupied, during the preceding months,
by a Frenchman. His dress and demeanour were respectable. HO mode of life was frugal almost to penuriousness, and his only companion was a daughter. The
lady seemed not much less than thirty years of age, but
was of a small and delicate frame. It was she that performed every household office. She brought water from
the pump and provisions from the market. Their house
had no visitants, and was almost always closed. Duly,
as the morning returned, a venerable figure was seen
issuing from his door, dressed in the same style of tarnished splendour and old-fashioned preciseness. At the
dinner-hour he as regularly returned. For the rest of
the day he was invisible.
The habitations in this quarter are few and scattered.
The pestilence soon showed itself here, and the flight of
most of the inhabitants augmented its desolateness and
dreariness. For some time, Monrose (that was his name)
made his usual appearance in the morning. At length
the neighbours remarked that he no longer came forth
as usual. Baxter had a notion that Frenchmen were
exempt from this disease. He was, besides, deeply and
rancorously prejudiced against that nation. There will