Note 44 — THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE (continued 2)
Reading edition
No! For we met with a young lady who kept a circulating library and a milliner’s shop, in a watering-place in the country, who, when we inquired for the Scotch Novels, spoke indifferently about them, said they were ‘so dry she could hardly get through them,’ and recommended us to read Agnes. We never thought of it before; but we would venture to lay a wager that there are many other young ladies in the same situation, and who think ‘Old Mortality’ ‘dry.’