It was my good or ill fortune
to become acquainted with these gentlemen, who, having seen me at
the opera, expressed a desire of being known to me, and accordingly
favoured me with a visit one afternoon, when the brisk North Briton
engrossed the whole conversation, while the other seemed fearful and
diffident even to a degree of bashfulness, through which, however,
I could discern a delicate sensibility and uncommon understanding.
There was in his person, which was very agreeable, as well as in
his behaviour, a certain naivete that was very pleasing; and, at
this first interview, we relished each other's company so well,
that a sort of intimacy immediately commenced, and was carried on
in a succession of parties of pleasure, in the course of which I
found him fraught with all the tenderness and sentiment that render
the heart susceptible of the most refined love; a disposition that
immediately made me partial to him, while it subjected his own
heart to all the violent impressions of a passion, which I little
imagined our correspondence would have produced.
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