- A Small Time May, Perhaps,
Afford Me An Opportunity:
- Yet did you
know how dear this self-denial costs me, you
would confess it the greatest proof of affection
ever man gave:
- Permit me therefore to gratify
an ambition which has no other aim than a
justification of the favours I receive: - continue
to look with a favourable eye on my endeavours,
and they cannot then fail of such success,
as may give me a claim to the glorious.
title of my most adored and loved Charlotta's.
Everlasting Slave,
HORATIO."
To her father he wrote in the following manner:
To the baron DE PALFOY,
My Lord;
"The favours your goodness confers upon
me are such as can be equalled by but one
thing in the world, and that is my just and
grateful sense of them. - Charming would be
the toils of war, did all employed in them meet
a recompence like mine! - Is there a man, so
mean, so poor in spirit, that praises such as I receive
might not animate to actions worthy of
them! - What acknowledgments can I make
the count suitable to the immense obligations I
owe him, for inspiring your lordship with sentiments,
which, tho' the supreme wish of my
aspiring soul, I never durst allow myself to
hope; and which afford a prospect of future
accumulated blessings, such as I could scarce
flatter myself with being real, were not the transporting
idea in some measure confirmed to me,
by your having given a sanction to a correspondence
I so lately despaired of ever obtaining!
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