Edgar Buildings


Walks Through Bath (1818) by P Egan

On quitting the hotel, on the left, Edgar-Buildings, an elevated respectable terrace is perceived opposite to Milsom Street; and what the west end of the metropolis presents to the inhabitants of London, the same elegant appearance of this part of the city operates upon the minds of the visitors of Bath. The similarity of feature is obvious In the height of the season Milsom Street is the promenade of the gentlemen and the shopping of the ladies this latter circumstance gives it a splendid variety .

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 Chapter 6 
 Chapter 7 
An inquiry now took place into the intended movements of the young ladies; and, on finding whither they were going, it was decided that the gentlemen should accompany them to Edgar’s Buildings, and pay their respects to Mrs. Thorpe.

A pre–engagement in Edgar’s Buildings prevented his accepting the invitation of one friend, and obliged him to hurry away as soon as he had satisfied the demands of the other.

 Chapter 12 
At the bottom of the street, however, she looked back again, and then, not at a window, but issuing from the door, she saw Miss Tilney herself. She was followed by a gentleman, whom Catherine believed to be her father, and they turned up towards Edgar’s Buildings.
 Chapter 14 
Towards the end of the morning, however, Catherine, having occasion for some indispensable yard of ribbon which must be bought without a moment’s delay, walked out into the town, and in Bond Street overtook the second Miss Thorpe as she was loitering towards Edgar’s Buildings between two of the sweetest girls in the world, who had been her dear friends all the morning.
 Chapter 15 
Early the next day, a note from Isabella, speaking peace and tenderness in every line, and entreating the immediate presence of her friend on a matter of the utmost importance, hastened Catherine, in the happiest state of confidence and curiosity, to Edgar’s Buildings.
 Chapter 18 
“But that you certainly did, for you spent the whole morning in Edgar’s Buildings — it was the day your father’s consent came — and I am pretty sure that you and John were alone in the parlour some time before you left the house.”
 Chapter 19 
The result of her observations was not agreeable. Isabella seemed an altered creature. When she saw her, indeed, surrounded only by their immediate friends in Edgar’s Buildings or Pulteney Street, her change of manners was so trifling that, had it gone no farther, it might have passed unnoticed.
 

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