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I hope you will not think me an encroacher; Lady Howard insists upon my writing!-yet I hardly know how to go on; a petition implies a want and have you left me one? No, indeed. I am half ashamed of myself for beginning this letter. But these dear ladies are so pressing-I cannot, for my life, resist wishing for the pleasures they offer me,-provided you do not disapprove them.
He must reward himself, the artful encroacher said, before the landlady and her maids and niece, for his forethought; and would salute his pretty sullen sister! He took his reward; and, as he said before, a tear with it. How could I be complaisant, my dear, to such a man as this?
Barclay, a strong man, with the iron sinews of his race, and their fierce spirit still burning in his eyes, strode up to the encroacher, and, with a grim smile, spoke thus: "Friend, thou knowest that I have become a man of peace and have relinquished strife, and therefore thou art endeavouring to take what is not thine own, but mine, because thou believest that, having abjured the arm of the flesh, I cannot hinder thee.
If we survey Birmingham in the twelfth century, we shall find her crowded with timber, within and without; her streets dirty and narrow; but considering the distant period, much trodden, yet, compared with her present rising state, but little. The inhabitant became an early encroacher upon nor narrow streets, and sometimes the lord was the greatest.
III. Must I not with such a man, says she, be wanting to myself, were I not jealous and vigilant? By this time the reader will see, that she had still greater reason for her jealousy and vigilance. And Lovelace will tell the sex, as he does in Letter XI. of Vol. V., that the woman who resents not initiatory freedoms, must be lost. Love is an encroacher, says he: loves never goes backward.
* We cannot forbear observing in this place, that the Lady has been particularly censured, even by some of her own sex, as over-nice in her part of the above conversations: but surely this must be owing to want of attention to the circumstances she was in, and to her character, as well as to the character of the man she had to deal with: for, although she could not be supposed to know so much of his designs as the reader does by means of his letters to Belford, yet she was but too well convinced of his faulty morals, and of the necessity there was, from the whole of his behaviour to her, to keep such an encroacher, as she frequently calls him, at a distance.
Peter heals at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, was just mounting his donkey to depart, laden with the rich spoil of the day's beggary. Up the stairs, drawing his tattered cloak about his face, came the model, at whom Beppo looked askance, jealous of an encroacher on his rightful domain. The figure passed away, however, up the Via Sistina.
But it shewed her how reasonable and just my expectations were; and that I was no encroacher. She consented; and asked what security I expected? Her word only. And, believe me, or not, but, as I hope to live, it was the first time I had the courage to touch her charming lips with mine. So precious do awe, reverence, and apprehended prohibition, make a favour!
All that you say of Henry is most true; I do not wonder, I know him to be very magnanimous; you will say I trade upon the knowledge? It is possible; there are dangerous virtues: virtues that tempt the encroacher. Mr. Mackellar, I will make it up to him; I will take order with all this. I have been weak; and, what is worse, I have been dull!"
Does not the doctor declare that a year will not better my condition?" "But he cannot be sure. And I promise you, Charlie, that, if Mr. asks me then, I will think about it, and if you are better, go with him. More I will not promise." "A year from last February, you mean?" A pause. "Encroacher! Yes, then." "And you will write to him to say so?" "Indeed! That would be pretty behavior!"
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