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From this request you may
judge of the man, as well as of the regard I must entertain for
his character and disposition.
"During the whole summer I was besieged by my artful undoer, and
in the autumn set out with my lord for Bath, where, by reason of
the intimacy that subsisted between our families, we lived in the
same house with my lover and his sister, who, with another agreeable
young lady, accompanied us in this expedition. By this time Mr.
S-- had extorted from me a confession of a mutual flame, though I
assured him that it should never induce me to give up the valuable
possession of an unspotted character, and a conscience void of offence.
I offered him all the enjoyment he could reap from an unreserved
intercourse of souls, abstracted from any sensual consideration.
He eagerly embraced the platonic proposal, because he had sagacity
enough to foresee the issue of such chimerical contracts, and
knew me too well to think he could accomplish his purpose without
seeming to acquiesce in my own terms, and cultivating my tenderness
under the specious pretext.


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