This Was All Either
Of Us Had Time To Say; But It Was Enough To Make Me Convinced He Desired
A More Particular Conversation, And Him, That It Would Not Be
Unwelcome To Me.
Thus began an acquaintance equally fatal to my peace of mind and
reputation; and having said that, it would
Be needless to repeat the
circumstances of it, therefore shall only tell you I was so infatuated
with my passion, that I never gave myself the trouble to examine into
the nature of his pretensions, and lull'd with the vows he made of
everlasting love, resented not that he forbore pressing to that ceremony
which could alone ensure it: - yes, my Louisa, I will not wrong him so
far as to say he deceived me in this point; for tho' he protested with
the most solemn imprecations that he would never address any either
woman than myself, yet he never once mentioned marriage to me. - Alass!
he too well saw into my heart, and that all my faculties were too much
his to be able to refuse him any thing: - even so it proved; - he
triumphed over all in my power to yield; - nay, was so far subdued, that
I neither regretted my loss, nor used any endeavours to conceal
it; - vain of being his at any rate, I thought his love more glory to me
than either fame or virtue; and while I was known to enjoy the one,
despised whatever censures I incurred for parting with the other:
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