Author: Nicholas Rowe

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781230045047

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 edition. Excerpt: ...The report is, that you are quitting England. Can it be? Honey. Yes, madam, I leave you to happiness; to one who loves you, and deserves your love; to one who has power to procure you afllueuce, and generosity to improve your enjoyment of it. Miss R. And are you sure, sir, that the gentleman you mean is what you describe him? Honey. I have the best assurances of it. As for me, weak and wavering as I have been, obliged by all, and E incapable of serving any, what happiness can I find but in solitude? what hope but in being forgotten? Miss R. A thousand! to live among friends that esteem you, whose happiness it will be to be permitted to oblige yon. Honey. No, madam; my resolution is fixed. Inferiority among strangers is easy; but among those that once were equals, insupportahle. Nay, to show you how far my resolution can go, I can now speak with calmness of my former follies. I will even confess that, among the number of my other presumptions, I had the insolence to think of loving you. Yes, madam, while I was pleading the passion of another, my heart was tortured with its own.. Miss It. You amaze me! Honey. But you'll forgive it, I know you will; since the confession should not have come from me even now, but to convince you of the sincerity of my intention of--never mentioning it more. Going. Miss R. Stay, sir, one moment. Ha! he here! Enter Lo rTY. Lrfiy. Is the coast clear? None but friends. I have followed you here with a trifling piece of intelligence: but it goes no further, things are not yet ripe for a discovery. I have spirits working at a certain hoard; your affair at the Treasury will be done in less than--a thousand years. Mum! Miss R. Sooner, sir, I should hope. Lofty. Why, yes, I believe it may, if it falls into proper...