However, I will take your word for your
intention, and thank you for the unmerited compliment, though I have
met with it in such an accidental manner. Nevertheless, I must be
so free as to tell you, it is now high time for you to contract
that unbounded spirit of gallantry, which you have indulged so
long, into a sincere attachment for the fair Emilia, who, by all
accounts, deserves the whole of your attention and regard." His nerves
thrilled at mention of that name, which he never heard pronounced
without agitation. Rather than undergo the consequence of a conversation
upon this subject, he chose to drop the theme of love altogether,
and industriously introduced some other topic of discourse.
CHAPTER XCVII.
He writes against the Minister, by whose Instigation he is arrested,
and moves himself by habeas corpus into the Fleet.
My lady having prolonged her stay beyond the period of a common
visit, and repeated her protestations in the most frank and
obliging manner, took her leave of our adventurer, who promised to
pay his respects to her in a few days at her own house.
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