- Where It Is Accompanied
With The Strictest Honour, Constancy, Purity, And All The Requisites
That Constitute What Is Called A
Perfect passion, there are ordinarily
so many difficulties in the way to the completion of its wishes, that
the breast
Which harbours it must endure a continual agitation, which
surely none would chuse to be involved in.
Ah! madam, how little are you capable of judging of this passion, said
he; there is a delicacy in love which renders even its pains pleasing,
and how much soever a lover suffers, the thoughts of for whom he suffers
is more than a compensation; I am myself an instance of this truth: - I
am a lover: - conscious unworthiness of a suitable return of affection,
and a thousand other impediments lie between me and hope, yet would I
not change this dear anxiety for that insipid case I lived in before I
saw the only object capable of making me a convert to love. - It is
certain my passion is yet young; but a few days has given it root which
no time, no absence, no misfortune ever can dislodge. - The charming maid
is ignorant of her conquest: - the carnival draws near to a
conclusion. - I must return to the army, and these cruel circumstances
oblige me either to make a declaration which she may possibly condemn as
too abrupt, or go and leave her unknowing of my heart, and thereby
deprive myself even of her pity: - Which party, madam, shall I
take?
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