Camilla

Camilla
by Fanny Burney D'Arblay
CONTENTS
VOLUME I
BOOK I
CHAPTER I. A Family Scene CHAPTER II. Comic Gambols
CHAPTER III. Consequences CHAPTER IV. Studies of a grown
Gentleman CHAPTER V. Schooling of a young Gentleman CHAPTER
VI. Tuition of a young Lady CHAPTER VII. Lost Labour
VOLUME I
BOOK II
CHAPTER I. New Projects CHAPTER II. New Characters CHAPTER
III. A Family Breakfast CHAPTER IV. A Public Breakfast CHAPTER
V. A Raffle CHAPTER VI. A Barn CHAPTER VII. A Declaration
CHAPTER VIII. An Answer CHAPTER IX. An Explication
CHAPTER X. A Panic CHAPTER XI. Two Lovers CHAPTER XII.
Two Doctors CHAPTER XIII. Two Ways of looking at the same Thing
CHAPTER XIV. Two Retreats CHAPTER XV. Two Sides of a
Question
VOLUME II
BOOK III
CHAPTER I. A few kind Offices CHAPTER II. A Pro and a Con
CHAPTER III. An Author's Notion of Travelling CHAPTER IV. An
Internal Detection CHAPTER V. An Author's Opinion of Visiting
CHAPTER VI. An Author's Idea of Order CHAPTER VII. A Maternal

Eye CHAPTER VIII. Modern Ideas of Duty CHAPTER IX. A Few
Embarrassments CHAPTER X. Modern Ideas of Life CHAPTER XI.
Modern Notions of Penitence CHAPTER XII. Airs and Graces
CHAPTER XIII. Attic Adventures
VOLUME II
BOOK IV
CHAPTER I. A Few Explanations CHAPTER II. Specimens of Taste
CHAPTER III. A Few Compliments CHAPTER IV. The Danger of
Disguise CHAPTER V. Strictures on Deformity CHAPTER VI.
Strictures on Beauty CHAPTER VII. The Pleadings of Pity CHAPTER
VIII. The Disastrous Buskins CHAPTER IX. Three Golden Maxims
VOLUME III
BOOK V
CHAPTER I. A Pursuer CHAPTER II. An Adviser CHAPTER III.
Various Confabulations CHAPTER IV. A Dodging CHAPTER V. A
Sermon CHAPTER VI. A Chat CHAPTER VII. A Recall CHAPTER
VIII. A Youth of the Times
VOLUME III
BOOK VI
CHAPTER I. A Walk by Moonlight CHAPTER II. The Pantiles
CHAPTER III. Mount Ephraim CHAPTER IV. Knowle CHAPTER V.
Mount Pleasant CHAPTER VI. The Accomplished Monkies
CHAPTER VII. The Rooms CHAPTER VIII. Ways to the Heart
CHAPTER IX. Counsels for Conquest CHAPTER X. Strictures upon
the Ton CHAPTER XI. Traits of Character CHAPTER XII. Traits of
Eccentricity CHAPTER XIII. Traits of Instruction CHAPTER XIV. A
Demander CHAPTER XV. An Accorder CHAPTER XVI. An Helper
VOLUME IV

BOOK VII
CHAPTER I. The right Style of Arguing CHAPTER II. A Council
CHAPTER III. A Proposal of Marriage CHAPTER IV. A Bull-Dog
CHAPTER V. An Oak Tree CHAPTER VI. A Call of the House
CHAPTER VII. The Triumph of Pride CHAPTER VIII. A Summons to
Happiness CHAPTER IX. Offs and Ons CHAPTER X. Resolutions
CHAPTER XI. Ease and Freedom CHAPTER XII. Dilemmas
CHAPTER XIII. Live and Learn
VOLUME IV
BOOK VIII
CHAPTER I. A Way to make Friends CHAPTER II. A Rage of
Obliging CHAPTER III. A Pleasant Adventure CHAPTER IV. An
Author's Time-keeper CHAPTER V. An Agreeable Hearing
CHAPTER VI. Ideas upon Marriage CHAPTER VII. How to treat a
Defamer CHAPTER VIII. The Power of Prepossession CHAPTER IX.
A Scuffle CHAPTER X. A Youthful Effusion CHAPTER XI. The
Computations of Self-Love
VOLUME V
BOOK IX
CHAPTER I. A Water Party CHAPTER II. Touches of Wit and
Humour CHAPTER III. An Adieu CHAPTER IV. A Modest Request
CHAPTER V. A Self-dissection CHAPTER VI. A Reckoning
CHAPTER VII. Brides and no Brides CHAPTER VIII. A Hint for
Debtors CHAPTER IX. A Lover's Eye CHAPTER X. A Bride's
Resolves CHAPTER XI. The Workings of Sorrow
VOLUME V
BOOK X
CHAPTER I. A Surprise CHAPTER II. A Narrative CHAPTER III.

The Progress of Dissipation CHAPTER IV. Hints upon National
Prejudice CHAPTER V. The Operation of Terror CHAPTER VI. The
Reverse of a Mask CHAPTER VII. A New View of an old Mansion
CHAPTER VIII. A Last Resource CHAPTER IX. A Spectacle
CHAPTER X. A Vision CHAPTER XI. Means to still Agitation
CHAPTER XII. Means to Obtain a Boon CHAPTER XIII. Questions
and Answers CHAPTER XIV. The last Touches of the Picture

VOLUME I
BOOK I
THE historian of human life finds less of difficulty and of intricacy to
develop, in its accidents and adventures, than the investigator of the
human heart in its feelings and its changes. In vain may Fortune wave
her many-coloured banner, alternately regaling and dismaying, with
hues that seem glowing with all the creation's felicities, or with tints
that appear stained with ingredients of unmixt horrors; her most rapid
vicissitudes, her most unassimilating eccentricities, are mocked,
laughed at, and distanced by the wilder wonders of the Heart of man;
that amazing assemblage of all possible contrarieties, in which one
thing alone is steady--the perverseness of spirit which grafts desire on
what is denied. Its qualities are indefinable, its resources unfathomable,
its weaknesses indefensible. In our neighbours we cannot judge, in
ourselves we dare not trust it. We lose ere we learn to appreciate, and
ere we can comprehend