Mademoiselle Charlotta Was Gone To Bed; But Being Rouzed By The
Accident, No Sooner Was Informed By The Surgeons, Who Were Immediately
Sent For, That There Was Nothing Dangerous In The Hurts Her Father Had
Received, Than She Blessed Heaven For Making Horatio The Instrument Of
His Preservation.
The sense the baron seemed to have of this obligation,
and the praises he bestowed on the gallant manner
In which the young
gentleman came to his relief, made her almost ready to flatter herself
that fate interested itself in behalf of their love; and indeed monsieur
the baron, notwithstanding the haughtiness of his nature, had the most
just notions of gratitude; and to testify it to Horatio, would have
refused him scarce any thing except his daughter. But however that
should happen, she still found more and more excuses for indulging the
inclinations she had for him; and tho' she yet had never given him any
such assurances, yet she resolved in her own mind, to live only for him.
The baron being obliged to keep his bed for several days, Horatio had a
pretence for repeating his visits to him during this time of his
confinement, and afterwards went often by invitation; the other, besides
the obligation he had to him, finding something extremely pleasing in
his conversation, to which (not to take from Horatio's merits) the
obsequiousness he found no difficulty in himself to behave with towards
a Man of his age, his quality, and above all, the father of Charlotta,
not a little contributed.
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