She Sent Again
To Know If He Intended To Be There, And, If He Did, What Habit He Would
Wear, It Being Customary With Them, Ever Since Their Amour, To Acquaint
Each Other With Their Dresses, That They Might Not Mistake, By
Addressing To Wrong Persons.
His reply was, that he would go if health
permitted, but as to what he should wear he had not as yet thought
of it.
What, if he hat not thought of it! cried she haughtily, when she heard
these words; - the knowledge that I shall be there, ought now to make him
think of it. - Pride, love, and the astonishment at this sudden change in
his behaviour, rendered her wholly forgetful of what she owed her sex
and rank; and she was just going to his lodgings, in order to upbraid
him with his indifference, and prove what it was she now had to depend
on from him, when the messenger from Louisa arrived and delivered her
the letter, which contained a sad eclaircisement of all she wanted to be
informed of.
At first reading it, she seemed like one transfixed with a sudden clap
of thunder: - she had indeed been jealous, suspicious, fearful of her
fate; but so glaring, so impudent a treachery had never entered her
head, that any man could be guilty of, much less one whom her too fond
passion had figured to her imagination, as possessed of all the virtues
of his sex. It seemed too monstrous to be true; and she had accused the
innocent Louisa as the inventor of this falshood, merely in revenge for
her late treatment, had there been the least shadow of a pretence for
doing so:
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