"His mind was so entirely enslaved, that he beheld nothing but in the light wherein she pleased to represent it, and was so easy a dupe, that she could scarcely feel the joys of self triumph in her superior art, which was on no subject so constantly exerted, as in keeping up a coldness in Sir Charles towards his daughter; this she had with tolerable facility effected in her absence, and was assiduously careful to preserve now she was present."
A Description of Millenium Hall, and the Country Adjacent
Five entries in ESTC (1762, 1763, 1764, 1767). Second edition, corrected in 1764; third edition in 1767.<br>
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Reading Sarah Scott, <u>A Description of Millenium Hall</u>, ed. Gary Kelly (Ontario: Broadview Literary Texts, 2001).<br>
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See also <u>A Description of Millenium Hall, and the Country Adjacent: Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants, And such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections, as May excite in the Reader proper Sentiments of Humanity, and lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue. By A Gentleman on his Travels</u> (London: Printed for J. Newbery, 1762). &lt;<a href="http://archive.org/details/descriptionofmil00scot">Link to archive.org</a>&gt;