Gauntlet, which, now that he
was so happy as to meet with her, he would postpone, until he should
have the pleasure of attending her to the country. After having
thanked him for his polite intention, she told him, that her mother
was expected in town in a few days, and that she herself had come
to London some weeks ago, to give attendance upon her aunt, who
had been dangerously ill, but was now pretty well recovered.
Although the conversation of course turned upon general topics,
during the entertainment he took all opportunities of being
particular with his eyes, through which he conveyed a thousand
tender protestations. She saw and inwardly rejoiced at the humility
of his looks; but, far from rewarding it with one approving glance,
she industriously avoided this ocular intercourse, and rather
coquetted with a young gentleman that ogled her from the opposite
box. Peregrine's penetration easily detected her sentiments, and he
was nettled at her dissimulation, which served to confirm him in his
unwarrantable designs upon her person. He persisted in his assiduities
with indefatigable perseverance; when the play was concluded, handed
her and her companion into a hackney-coach, and with difficulty was
permitted to escort them to the house of Emilia's uncle, to whom
our hero was introduced by the young lady, as an intimate friend
of her brother Godfrey.
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