Louisa Was No Sooner Gone, Than He Wished Her With Him Again, And Was A Thousand Times About To Send And Have Her Brought Back; But Was As Often Prevented By The Apprehensions Of Her Discovering The Motive.

- He was now convinced that love does not always stand in need of being indulged to enforce its votaries to be guilty of extravagancies.

- He had banished the object of his affections from his presence; he had painted all the inconveniences of pursuing his desires in the worst colours they would bear; yet all was insufficient! - Louisa was absent in reality, but her image was ever present to him. - Whatever company he engaged himself in, whatever amusement he endeavoured to entertain himself with, he could think only of her.

- The Town without her seemed a desart, and every thing in it rather seemed irksome than agreeable; for several months did he endure this cruel conflict; but love and nature at last got the victory, and all those considerations which had occasioned the opposition subsided: he found it impossible to recover any tranquility of mind while he continued in this dilemma, and therefore yielded to the strongest side. All the arguments he had used with himself in the beginning of his passion seemed now weak and trifling: the difference of age, which he had thought so formidable an objection, appeared none in the light with which he at present considered it: he was now but in his fortieth year, and the temperance he had always observed had hindered any decay either in his looks or constitution.

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