OF LYING, IN ALL ITS BRANCHES. BY AMELIA OPIE. IN TWO VOLUMES, VOL II. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN; PATERNOSTER-Row. 1825. ILLUSTRATIONS OF LYING, IN ALL ITS BRANCHES. MISTAKEN KINDNESS. ANN BELSON had lived in a respectable merchant's family, of the name of Melbourne, for many years, and had acquitted herself to the satisfaction of her employers in the successive capacities of nurse, house-maid, and lady's-maid. But it was at length discovered that she had long been addicted to petty pilfering; and, being emboldened by past impunity, she purloined some valuable lace, and was detected: but as her kind master and |