THE CHILDREN OF THE ABBEY. CHAP. I. Oh fields! oh woods! when, when fhall I be made The happy tenant of your fhade. COWLEY. SOLITUDE to Amanda was a luxury, as it afforded her opportunities of indulging the ideas on which her heart delighted to dwell; fhe yet believed the fhould fee Lord Mortimer, and that Lord Cherbury's fanctioning their attachment would remove the delicate fcruples of her father. From foothing his paffing hours, beguiling her own with the accomplishments the poffeffed, and indulging the tender fuggeftions of hope, a pleasure arofe the thought ill exchanged for the trifling gaiety of the parties fhe was frequently invited to; fhe was never at a lofs for amusement within Castle Carberry, or about its domain; the garden became the object of her peculiar care; its fituation VOL. II. B |