Any private gentleman may be amiable and witty; but any private gentleman cannot call to his aid the Aladdin's lamp possessed in England by a wealthy peer.

Look to this, my dear lord! Lucy at heart is vain, or she is not a woman.

Dazzle her, then,--dazzle! Love may be blind, but it must be made so by excess of light.

You have a country-house within a few miles of Bath.

Why not take up your abode there instead of in a paltry lodging in the town?
Give sumptuous entertainments,--make it necessary for all the world to attend them,--exclude, of course, this Captain Clifford; you will then meet Lucy without a rival.