It is not to be doubted that our adventurer made a good use of this
occasion: he practised a thousand flowers of rhetoric, and actually
exhausted his whole address, in persuading her to have compassion
upon his misery, and indulge him with another private audience,
without which he should run distracted, and be guilty of extravagancies
which, in the humanity of her disposition, she would weep to see.
But, instead of complying with his request, she chid him severely
for his presumption in persecuting her with his vicious addresses:
she assured him, that although she had secured a chamber for herself
in this place, because she had no ambition to be better acquainted
with the other lady, he would be in the wrong to disturb her
with another nocturnal visit, for she was determined to deny him
admittance. The lover was comforted by this hint, which he understood
in the true acceptation; and his passion being inflamed by the
obstacles he had met with, his heart beat high with the prospect of
possession. These raptures of expectation produced an inquietude,
which disabled him from bearing that share of the conversation for
which he used to be distinguished.
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