Comedy ensues in this novel after Mr. Dubois drops another character into a large mudhole, causing her great indignity, and the protagonist is later mortified after that character's nephew, the silversmith Mr. Branghton, loudly impugns the opera.
Comedy ensues in this novel after Mr. Dubois drops another character into a large mudhole, causing her great indignity, and the protagonist is later mortified after that character's nephew, the silversmith Mr. Branghton, loudly impugns the opera. An insulting letter leads the protagonist to travel to Bristol Hot Wells with Mrs. Selwyn, where she is accosted by the suicidal Scottish poet Mr. Macartney. Other characters include the fop Sir Clement Willoughby, who plots to steal a wig from the previously-mudded Mrs. Duval. After being switched at birth with the daughter of a poor but wily nurse the title character is disavowed by her natural father, Sir John Belmont, and spends much of her childhood at Berry Hill in the company of her guardian, Mr. Arthur Villars. Ending with the protagonist's marriage to Lord Orville, this is, FTP, what epistolary novel by Fanny Burney?
Comedy ensues in this novel after Mr. Dubois drops another character into a large mudhole, causing her great indignity, and the protagonist is later mortified after that character's nephew, the silversmith Mr. Branghton, loudly impugns the opera.
{Evelina}