But She Said
Nothing That Discovered Her Sentiments On This Point, And With All The
Appearance Of A Perfect Ease Of Mind, Asked What He Had To Deliver To
Her.
Only a song, mademoiselle, answered he, which my master ordered me
to give you, and to desire you will let him know how you like it:
- He
says it might be turned into an admirable duetto, and begs you would
employ your genius on that score and send it by me.
Poor Louisa, who took his words literally, and thought her present
circumstances too discordant for the fulfilling his request, opened the
supposed piece of music with an aking heart; but when she had perused
it, and found the artifice her lover had made use of to communicate his
generous intentions to her, it is extremely fine, said she to the valet,
and I will do what he requires to the best of my power, but fear I shall
not be able to give it such a turn as he may expect. If you please,
continued she, to wait a little, I shall not be long before I dispatch
you. In speaking these words she went into her closet, and read over and
over the offers he had made, in which, with the strictest examination,
she could find nothing but what indicated the most perfect love, honour,
and generosity. In the first transports of her soul she was tempted to
comply; but her second thoughts were absolutely against it. - Those very
reasons which would have prevailed with almost any other woman, made her
obstinate to refuse:
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