- Sometimes He Thought Of Disguising Himself In The Habit Of A
Woman, His Youth, And The Delicacy Of His Complexion
Making him imagine
he might impose on the abbess and the nuns for such; but then he feared
being betrayed,
By not being able to answer the questions which would in
all probability be asked him. - He endeavoured to find out some person
that was acquainted there; but tho' he asked all the gentlemen, which
were a great many, that dined at the same Hotel with him, he was at as
great a loss as ever. He went to the chapel every hour that mass was
said, but could flatter himself with no other satisfaction from that than
the empty one of knowing he was under the same roof with her; for the
gallery in which the ladies sit, pensioners, as well as those who have
taken the veil, are so closely grated, that it is impossible for those
below to distinguish any object.
He was almost distracted when he had been there three or four days
without being able to find any expedient which he could think likely to
succeed: - he knew not what to resolve on; - time pressed him to pursue
his journey; - every day, every hour that he lost from prosecuting the
glorious hopes he had in view, struck ten thousand daggers to his
soul: - but then to go without informing the dear object of his wishes
how great a part she had in inspiring his ambition, - without assuring
her of his eternal constancy and faith, and receiving some soft
condescensions from her to enable him to support so long an absence as
he in all probability must endure.
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