HANNAH MORE, the sisters, he turned smilingly to one of them., saying, with one of his most amiable looks, " I have heard that you are engaged in the useful and honourable employment of teaching young ladies." The sisters, with the utmost ease and confidence, told him their history, when, " I love you both," cried the inamorato, " I love you all five. I never was at Bristol -I will come on purpose to see you. What ! five women live happily together ! I will come and see you. I have spent a happy evening -I am glad I came. GOD for ever bless you ; you live lives to shame duchesses." " If Hannah's head stands proof against all the adulation and kindness of the great folks here, why then I will venture to say that nothing of this kind will hurt her hereafter," writes one of her sisters. Carriages and gilt chariots are seen at her door ; Reynolds attends her to picture auctions ; Johnson, asking her opinion on a new tragedy in the midst of a company of the first wits and critics of the day, tells her, " You are right, madam ; " Garrick, reading poems for her amusement, asks, " Now, madam, what next ?" Mr. Burke pays her morning visits. But amid all the whirl of gaiety and adu- lation by which she was surrounded, she writes to one of her sisters :-" ` The more I see of the honoured, famed, and great, the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good, and that no earthly pleasure can fill up the wants of the immortal principle within." 21
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