- All That I Can Say Is, That I Now Am Happy By Your
Bounty, And Have Never Entertained One Wish But For The Continuance
Of It.
On that you may depend, said he, while you continue to stand in need of
it.
But would it not be more pleasing to find yourself the mistress of
an ample fortune, and in a condition to do the same good offices by
others as you have found from me? - In fine, Louisa, the care I have
taken of you would not be complete unless I saw you well settled in the
world. - I have therefore provided a husband for you, and such a one as I
think you can have no reasonable objection to.
Sir, it would ill-become me to dispute your will, answered she,
modestly, but as I yet am very young, and have never had a thought of
marriage, nor even conversed with any who have experienced that fate, I
should be too much at a loss how to behave in it, without being allowed
some time to consider on its respective duties. - I hope therefore, sir,
continued she, you will not oblige me to act with too much precipitation
in an affair on which the happiness or misery of my whole future
life depends.
Your very thinking it of consequence, said he, is enough to make you
behave so, as to allure your happiness with a man of honour; and indeed
Louisa, I love you too well to propose one to you whose principles and
humour I could not answer for as well as my own.
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