If he receive you, well and good, you should be flattered at his condescension; if the contrary, you will, at least, know on what ground you stand, and the situation in which my poor friend must be placed.

She is worried to death with the continual caprices of mamma and papa.

It would be a charity in any one to break the chains in which she is held.

She came to me yesterday in the deepest distress, and all from caprice; for what else can it be that has changed Mr.
Hamilton's manner ?" Lord Alphingham's fancy became more and more warmed as she spoke; vanity and self-love were alike gratified, and he answered eagerly-- "I may depend, then, on her affections; she will not, for fear of mamma, play me false." "Not she; that is to say, if you do not betray her in your eagerness to ask her of her father.

You have never yet asked the question, though you have discovered she loves you; but if, in demanding her of her father, you say you have gained her affections, the consequence will be, if Mr.
Hamilton refuse her, she will be borne instantly to Oakwood, and there imprisoned, till the poor girl pines and droops like a chained bird without hope of freedom.