# The Sylph, Volume I and II Author: Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806 Genre: Category: Romance Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38525 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Sylph%2C+Volume+I+and+II+Cavendish&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary It is a certain sign of a man's cause being bad, when he is obliged to quote precedents in the follies of others, to excuse his own. You see I give up my cause at once. I am convinced I have done a silly thing, and yet I can produce thousands who daily do the same with, perhaps, not so good a motive as myself. In short, not to puzzle you too much, which I know is extremely irksome to a man who loves to have every thing as clear as a proposition in Euclid; your friend (now don't laugh) is married. "Married!" Aye, why not? don't every body marry? those who have estates, to have heirs of their own; and those who have _nothing_, to get _something_; so, according to my system, every body marri... ## Chapters - [LETTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/9/index.md) - [LETTER XXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/27/index.md) - [LETTER XXXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/35/index.md) - [LETTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/1/index.md) - [LETTER XLVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/46/index.md) - [LETTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/20/index.md) - [LETTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/10/index.md) - [LETTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/13/index.md) - [LETTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/8/index.md) - [LETTER LVIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/59/index.md) - [LETTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/14/index.md) - [LETTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/17/index.md) - [LETTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/6/index.md) - [LETTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/3/index.md) - [LETTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/21/index.md) - [LETTER XLV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/45/index.md) - [LETTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/12/index.md) - [LETTER XXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/24/index.md) - [LETTER XLVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/47/index.md) - [LETTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/19/index.md) - [LETTER XLIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/44/index.md) - [LETTER L.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/50/index.md) - [LETTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/2/index.md) - [LETTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/4/index.md) - [LETTER XL.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/40/index.md) - [LETTER XLI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/41/index.md) - [LETTER LIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/54/index.md) - [LETTER XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/23/index.md) - [LETTER XXX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/30/index.md) - [LETTER XXXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/31/index.md) - [LETTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/22/index.md) - [LETTER XXXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/36/index.md) - [LETTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/11/index.md) - [LETTER XXXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/39/index.md) - [LETTER XXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/25/index.md) - [LETTER LI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/51/index.md) - [LETTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/15/index.md) - [LETTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/7/index.md) - [LETTER LV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/55/index.md) - [LETTER XXXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/33/index.md) - [LETTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/16/index.md) - [LETTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/5/index.md) - [LETTER LVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/57/index.md) - [LETTER XXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/26/index.md) - [LETTER XLIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/49/index.md) - [LETTER LIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/53/index.md) - [LETTER XXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/29/index.md) - [LETTER LXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/61/index.md) - [LETTER LVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/56/index.md) - [LETTER XXXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/38/index.md) - [LETTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/18/index.md) - [LETTER LX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/60/index.md) - [LETTER XLIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/43/index.md) - [LETTER XXXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/37/index.md) - [LETTER XLII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/42/index.md) - [LETTER XLVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/48/index.md) - [LETTER XXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/28/index.md) - [LETTER XXXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/32/index.md) - [LETTER LII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/52/index.md) - [LETTER LVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/58/index.md) - [LETTER XXXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sylph-volume-i-and-ii-38525/chapters/34/index.md)