He Concealed The Trouble He Was In As Well As He Was Able, And Affecting
A Careless Air, Told The Person Who Answered Him, That He Only Came To
Ask If She Had Heard The Last New Song, And That He Would Send It
To Her.
The moment he came home he sat down and wrote the following billet.
To the ever charming LOUISA.
"That invincible bar you mentioned, yet
made so great a secret of, is at last revealed,
and I should be unworthy of the blessing I aspire
to, if I were unable to surmount it.
Cruel Louisa! you little know me, or the force
of that passion you have inspired, to imagine
that any difference which chance may have put
between us, can make the least alteration in my
sentiments! - It is to your own perfections I
have devoted my heart, not to the merit or
grandeur of your ancestors. What has my love
to do with fortune, or with family! - Does a
diamond lose any thing of its intrinsic value for
being presented by an unknown, or an obscure
hand? - My eyes convince me of the charms
of my adored Louisa; my understanding shews
me those of her mind; and if heaven vouchsafes
to bless me with so rich a jewel, I never shall
examine whence it came. - If therefore I am
not so unhappy as to be hated by you, let not
vain punctilloes divide us, and, as the first proof
of my inviolable passion, permit me to remove
you from a place where you have met with such
unworthy treatment:
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