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.

1.4 JANE TALBOT.
the purest cleanliness somewhat that approaches to elegance.
The mistress and the maid are nearly of the same
age, and, though equally innocent and good-humoured, the
former has more sedateness and reserve than the latter.
She is devout in her way, which is Methodism, and
acquires from this source nothing but new motives of
charity to her neighbours and thankfulness to God.
Much-indeed, all-of these comforts she ascribes to
me; yet her gratitude is not loquacious. It shows itself
less in words than in the pleasure she manifests on my
visits; the confidence with which she treats me; laying
before me all her plans and arrangements, and entreating
my advice in every thing. Yet she has brought with her,
from her native country, notions of her inferiority to the
better-born and the better-educated but too soothing to
my pride. Hence she is always diffident, and never
makes advances to intimacy but when expressly invited
and encouraged.
It was a good while before all her new arrangements
were completed. When they were, I told her I would
spend the day with her, for which she was extremely
grateful. She sent me word as soon as she was ready
to receive me, and I went.
Artless and unceremonious was the good woman in the
midst of all her anxiety to please. Affectionate yet discreet in her behaviour to her Sally and her Alice, and
of me as tenderly observant as possible.
She showed me all her rooms, from cellar to garret,
and every thing I saw delighted me. Two neat beds in
the front-room above belong to her and Sally. The backroom is decked in a more fanciful and costly manner.
"Why, this, my good friend," said I, on entering it,
"is quite superb. Here is carpet and coverlet and curtains that might satisfy a prince: you are quite prodigal.
And for whose accommodation is all this?"
" Oh, any lady that will favour me with a visit. It is
a spare room, and the only one I have, and I thought I
would launch out a little for once. One wishes to set
the best they have before a guest,-though, indeed, I
doh't expect many to visit me; but it is some comfort to