The Beautifull Cassandra

A Novel in Twelve Chapters

Dedicated by permission to Miss Austen. Dedication: MADAM You are a Phoenix. Your taste is refined, your Sentiments are noble, & your Virtues innumerable. Your Person is lovely, your Figure, elegant, & your Form, magestic. Your Manners are polished, your Conversation is rational & your appearance singular. If, therefore, the following Tale will afford one moment's amusement to you, every wish will be gratified of Your most obedient humble servant THE AUTHOR

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    CHAPTER THE FIRST CASSANDRA was the Daughter & the only Daughter of a celebrated Millener in Bond Street. Her father was of noble Birth, being the near relation of the Dutchess of ----'s Butler.  

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  CHAPTER THE 2d WHEN Cassandra had attained her 16th year, she was lovely & amiable, & chancing to fall in love with an elegant Bonnet her Mother had just compleated, bespoke by the Countess of ----, she placed it on her gentle Head & walked from her Mother's shop to make her Fortune.  

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  CHAPTER THE 3d THE first person she met, was the Viscount of ----, a young Man, no less celebrated for his Accomplishments & Virtues, than for his Elegance & Beauty. She curtseyed & walked on.  

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  CHAPTER THE 4th SHE then proceeded to a Pastry-cook's, where she devoured six ices, refused to pay for them, knocked down the Pastry Cook & walked away.  

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  CHAPTER THE 5th SHE next ascended a Hackney Coach & ordered it to Hampstead, where she was no sooner arrived than she ordered the Coachman to turn round & drive her back again.  

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  CHAPTER THE 6th BEING returned to the same spot of the same Street she had set out from, the Coachman demanded his Pay.  

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  CHAPTER THE 7th SHE searched her pockets over again & again; but every search was unsuccessfull. No money could she find. The man grew peremptory. She placed her bonnet on his head & ran away.  

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  CHAPTER THE 8th THRO' many a street she then proceeded & met in none the least Adventure, till on turning a Corner of Bloomsbury Square, she met Maria.  

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  CHAPTER THE 9th CASSANDRA started & Maria seemed surprised; they trembled, blushed, turned pale & passed each other in a mutual silence.  

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  CHAPTER THE 10th CASSANDRA was next accosted by her freind the Widow, who squeezing out her little Head thro' her less window, asked her how she did? Cassandra curtseyed & went on.  

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  CHAPTER THE 11th A QUARTER of a mile brought her to her paternal roof in Bond Street, from which she had now been absent nearly 7 hours.  

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  CHAPTER THE 12th SHE entered it & was pressed to her Mother's bosom by that worthy Woman. Cassandra smiled & whispered to herself "This is a day well spent."