Thus Indulged In Every Thing He Wished, He Began
Insensibly To Lose All Desires Of Returning To England, And Receiving
No
letters either from Dorilaus or his sister, was as it were weaned from
that affection he had formerly bore
To them, and in the room of that the
new friendships he was every day contracting took up his mind.
He was indeed used with so much love and respect by people in the most
eminent stations, to whom the baron had introduced him, that it would
have been ungrateful in him not to have returned it with the greatest
good-will. Expressing one day some surprize at being so far forgotten by
his friends in England, de la Valiere told him that he would not have
him look on himself as any other than a guest in France, and that if he
chose to quit that country, he should not only be at his liberty to
return to England whenever he pleased, but also should be furnished with
a sum sufficient for the expences of his journey; but added, that the
offer he now made of depriving himself of so agreeable a companion was a
piece of self-denial, than which there could not be a greater proof of a
disinterested regard.
Horatio replied in the manner this generosity demanded, and said, that
if there was any thing irksome to him in France, it was only his
inability of returning the favours he had received: believe me, sir,
pursued he, were I master of a fortune sufficient to put me above the
necessity of receiving the obligations I now do, it would not be in the
power of all I left in England to prevail on me to return; - it is here,
and in the society of that company I at present, thro' your means,
enjoy, that I would wish to pass my whole life.
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