TALES AND NOVELS

BY

MARIA EDGEWORTH.

IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES.

VOL. XII.

CONTAINING

BELINDA,

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR BALDWIN AND CRADOCK;

J. MURRAY; J. BOOKER; WHITTAKER, TREACHER, AND ARNOT;
SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL; SMITH, ELDER, AND CO.; E. HODG-
SON; HOULSTON AND SON; J. TEMPLEMAN; J. BAIN; R.
MACKIE; RENSHAW AND RUSH; AND G. AND J. ROBINSON,

LIVERPOOL.

"A prudence undeceiving, undeceived,
That nor too little nor too much believed;
That scorn'd unjust suspicion's coward fear,
And without weakness knew to be sincere."

Lord Lyttelton's Monody on his Wife.