Though we did not live together in the same house,
the greatest part of our time was spent in each other's company;
we dined and supped at the same table, frequented public places,
went upon parties to the country, and never parted, but for a few
hours in the night, which we passed in the utmost impatience to
meet again.
"In this agreeable manner did the days roll on, when my felicity
was interrupted by a fit of jealousy with which I happened to
be seized. I had contracted an acquaintance with a young married
lady, who, though her personal attractions were but slender, was
upon the whole an agreeable, cheerful, good-natured companion,
with a little dash of the coquette in her composition. This woman
being in very indigent circumstances, occasioned by some losses
her husband had sustained, no sooner had an opportunity of seeing
and conversing with my lover, than she formed the design of making
a conquest of him. I should have forgiven her for this scheme,
whatever pangs it might have cost me, had I believed it the effect
of real passion; but I knew her too well to suppose her heart was
susceptible of love, and accordingly resented it.
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