- If
You Will Counterfeit An Indisposition, To-Morrow
I Will Out Of Excessive Charity Visit You, And
Bring You A Refreshment, I Flatter Myself, Will
Not Be Disagreeable To A Man In Your Circumstances:
- Farewell; - be
secret, - and love as well as you can,
Yours,
MATTAKESA."
Of all the accidents that had befallen Horatio since his leaving
England, none ever so much surprized him as the prodigious impudence of
this lady: he had heard talk of such adventures, but never till now
believed there could be any such thing in nature, as a woman that
offered herself in this manner, without the least sollicitation from the
person on whom she wished to lavish what ought only to be the reward of
an approved, or at least a shew of the most violent passion.
The dilemma he was in how to behave, was also equal to his
astonishment: - had she been the most lovely of her sex, as she was very
much the reverse, the ever present idea of his dear Charlotta would have
defended his heart from the invasions of any other charms; but he needed
not that pre-engagement to make him look with detestation on a woman of
Mattakesa's principles: - when he reflected on what she had said
concerning Edella, he found her base, censorious, and unjust: - and when
he considered the manner in which she proceeded in regard to himself, he
saw a lewdness and audacity which rendered her doubly odious, to
him: - he doubted not but she was wicked and subtle enough to contrive
some means of revenging herself, in case she met with a disappointment
in her wishes, yet had too great an abhorrence to be able to entertain
one thought of gratifying them.
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