The Mask of Fashion; a Plain Tale, With Anecdotes Foreign And Domestic .. 2
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" You came — ^you conquered \ When I see you, I desire nothing else— when I 54 do not— I only desire yoa — Nothing can please me but that which resembles you — Hear me then — Relieve my torments, by pitying them. I am too much the votary of honour to wish for more." By an artifice, as siiccessfid as the for mer^ he delivered this billet, in the presence of his uncle, to Mrs. Mansel — She dared not refuse it. In her room, she read it over and over ; bathed it with tears ; she felt he was mas- te...r of her heart ; and the tranquillity which he described, had once been the inmateof her own bosom. The same fatality seemed to have aroused all the energies of mutual love, and spread a dreadful ruin round them botli. After much painful reflection — and foreseeing how impossible it would be to 00 c evade the advances of a man, so daringly open in the indulgence of his passion, al- though so respectful in its declaration — sh thought it would be best to reply to the billets she had received, in the hope, that her arguments, and entreaty, might pre- A^iil upon Augustus to relieve her from the pangs of acting wrong, in addition to the burden of her thoughts — alas !
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