Trip 669 of 5400 collection book37
Baffled however in his endeavours by the serenity of the young lady which he stillbook17 deemed equivocal he had recourse to another experiment by which he believedbook51 he should make a discovery of her sentiments beyond all possibility of doubt. It was impossible for her to overlook such studied emotions she in a jocose manner taxed him with having lost his heart rallied the excess of his passion and in a merry strain undertook to be an advocate for his love.She therefore persevered in her distant attempts to allure him with the usual coquetries of dress and address and in the sweet hope of profiting by his susceptibility made shift to suppress her feelings and keep her passion within bounds until his supposed danger alarmed her fears and raised such a tumult within her breast that she could no longer conceal her love but gave a loose to her sorrow in the most immoderate expressions of anguish and affliction and while his delirium lasted behaved with all the agitation of a despairing shepherdess.... read all
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