THE BEAUTIFULL CASSANDRA

A NOVEL IN TWELVE CHAPTERS

dedicated by permission to Miss Austen.

Dedication.

Madam

You are a Phoenix.  Your taste is refined, your Sentiments are noble, & your Virtues innumerable.  Your Person is lovely, your Figure, elegant, & your Form, magestic.  Your Manners are polished, your Conversation is rational & your appearance singular.  If therefore the following Tale will afford one moment’s amusement to you, every wish will be gratified of

Your most obedient

humble servant

THE AUTHOR