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• The Beautiful Cassandra
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"Dedicated by permission to Miss Austen.
"Dedication,
"Madam,
"You are a phoenix. Your taste is refined, your sentiments are noble, and your virtues innumerable. Your person is lovely, your figure, elegant, and your form, majestic. Your manners are polished, your conversation is rational and 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 and the only daughter of a celebrated milliner in Bond Street. Her father was of noble birth, being the near relation of the Duchess of ***'s butler.
"Chapter the Second
"When Cassandra had attained her 16th year, she was lovely and amiable, and chancing to fall in love with an elegant bonnet her mother had just completed, bespoke by the Countess of ***, she placed it on her gentle head and walked from her mother's shop to make her fortune.
"Chapter the Third
"The first person she met, was the Viscount of ***, a young man, no less celebrated for his accomplishments and virtues, than for his elegance and beauty. She curtseyed and walked on.
"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 and walked away.
"Chapter the 5th
"She next ascended a hackney coach and ordered it to Hampstead, where she was no sooner arrived than she ordered the coachman to turn round and drive her back again.
"Chapter the 6th
"Being returned to the same spot of the same street she had set out from, the coachman demanded his pay.
"Chapter the 7th
"She searched her pockets over again and again; but every search was unsuccessful. No money could she find. The man grew peremptory. She placed her bonnet on his head and ran away.
"Chapter the 8th
"Thro’ many a street she then proceeded and met in none the least adventure, till on turning a corner of Bloomsbury Square, she met Maria.
"Chapter the 9th
"Cassandra started and Maria seemed surprised; they trembled, blushed, turned pale and passed each other in a mutual silence.
"Chapter the 10th
"Cassandra was next accosted by her friend the widow, who squeezing out her little head thro' her less window, asked her how she did? Cassandra curtseyed and went on.
"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 seven hours.
"Chapter the 12th
"She entered it and was pressed to her mother's bosom by that worthy woman. Cassandra smiled and whispered to herself "This is a day well spent."
"FINIS"
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August 18, 2021 - August 18, 2021.
Kindle Edition,
Penguin Little Black Classics, 62 pages
Published February 26th 2015
by Penguin Classics
(first published 1793)
Original Title The Beautifull Cassandra
ASIN:- B00RUSH68O
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August 18, 2021 - August 18, 2021.
Paperback, 72 pages
Published September 11th 2018
by Princeton University Press
(first published 1793)
Original Title The Beautifull Cassandra
ISBN:- 0691181535
(ISBN13: 9780691181530)
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