By
these means he not only spent his mornings in useful exercise but
supplied himself with money for what the French call the menus
plaisirs, during the whole summer. He frequented all the assemblies
in and about London, and considerably enlarged his acquaintance
among the fair sex.
"He had, upon his first arrival in England, become acquainted with
a lady at an assembly not far from London; and though, at that
time, he had no thoughts of extending his views farther than the
usual gallantry of the place, he met with such distinguishing marks
of her regard in the sequel, and was so particularly encouraged
by the advice of another lady, with whom he had been intimate in
France, and who was now of their parties, that he could not help
entertaining hopes of making an impression upon the heart of his
agreeable partner, who was a young lady of an ample fortune and
great expectations. He therefore cultivated her good graces with
all the assiduity and address of which he was master, and succeeded
so well in his endeavours, that, after a due course of attendance,
and the death of an aunt, by which she received an accession
of fortune to the amount of three and twenty thousand pounds, he
ventured to declare his passion, and she not only heard him with
patience and approbation, but also replied in terms adequate to
his warmest wish.
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