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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1811 Excerpt:...influence of an autumn evening over every thing around her. How blind have I been! now that your Lordship suggests it, I see it all. (Aside.) I am obliged to help him out in his very abuse, for he knows too little of love's rhetoric, even to hate with eloquence. L. Dart. Now there is a person, in whose radiant eyes, and sparkling decorums, the majesty of imperial cupid sits in state, and dispenses innocuous glories with the careless profusion of a city feast, or the dazzling splendor of a courtly gala.--Thereis a person Miss Her. Your Lordship means Miss Manly!--Yes, indeed, she is a fine young woman enough L. Dart. Miss Manly! Miss Manly, madam, is as a scintillating link to the gorgeous orb of day, compared to the ineffable divinity of my prostrate adoration. Miss Her. Whom can your Lordship mean? L. Dart. Mean! whom should I mean--whom _ must I mean, whom can I mean, but the celestial Phcenix of her sex, the divine Miss Herbert? Miss Her. Me, my Lord!--Good heaven!--I am so confused all on a sudden--Did your Lordship say ine?..L. Dart. Yes, yes, your adorable everlasting self. Miss Her. If-your Lordship really entertains--If your Lordship has indeed done me the honour to have conceived a passion L. Dart. A passion!--a flame--a conflagration--a volcano!a Miss Her. Nay now, my Lord, I can no longer doubt the plain sincerity of your professions--but as it is a fixed rule with me, rather to follow than to lead, in events of this awful importance, I should wish to avoid any further communication with a person of your Lordship's dangerous eloquence, till the proper sanction of my relations has been previously obtained; my aunt would be too happy to receive any proposals of your Lordship's; till then permit me to take my leave. Successful even beyond my hopes....