Trip 1002 of 5400 collection book37

In his ministry about the person of the beauteous orphan this cunning incendiarybook21 mingled such awful regard such melting compassion as effectually screened him from the suspicion of treachery while he widened the fatal breach between her and her lover by the most diabolical insinuations. The tenderhearted Monimia endeavoured to devour her griefs in silence she in secret bemoaned her forlorn fate without ceasing her tears flowed without intermission from night to morn and from morn to night. He believed himself superseded in the affection of his mistress by some favoured rival whose success rankled at his soul and though he scarce durst communicate the suspicion to his own heart his observation continually whispered to him that he was supplanted by his friend Fathom for Monimia was totally detached from the conversation of every other man and he had of late noted their intercourse with distempered eyes. This answer so wide of that tenderness and concern which had hitherto manifested itself in the disposition of his amiable mistress deprived him of all power to carry on the conversation and he retired with a low bow fully convinced of his having irretrievably lost the place he had possessed in her affection for to his imagination warped and blinded by his misfortunes her demeanour seemed fraught not with a transient gleam of anger which a respectful lover would soon have appeased but with that contempt and indifference which denote a total absence of affection and esteem.

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