B. Franklin.
VII.
THEORISTS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
RICHARD LOVELL EDGEWORTH.
At the next meeting there was a slight deviation from the absolutely expected. Bedford and Mabel desired to dispense with the regular order of the day, and moved for permission to bring in a new inventor, "invented by myself," said Mabel,—"entirely by myself, assisted by Bedford. Nobody that I know of ever heard of him before. He is a new discovery."
"Who is he?" asked Horace, somewhat piqued that there should be any one interesting of whom he had not heard even the name.
"What did he invent?" asked Emma.
"Did he write memoirs?" asked Fergus.
"Did you ever read 'Frank'?" asked Mabel, in what is known as the Socratic method.