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The women below say she hates me; she despises me! And 'tis true: she does; she must. And why cannot I take their advice? I will not long, my fair-one, be despised by thee, and laughed at by them! To these instructions I shall further add as circumstances offer. I have neither time nor patience, my dear friend, to answer every material article in your last letters just now received. Mr.
Have I not, before thou settest out as an advocate for my fair-one, often brought thee in, as making objections to my proceedings, for no other reason than to exalt myself by proving thee a man of straw? As Homer raises up many of his champions, and gives them terrible names, only to have them knocked on the head by his heroes.
And I believe they are right; for the devil's in it, if a confided-in rake does not give a girl enough of tragedy in his comedy. 'I asked Sally to oblige my fair-one with her company. Sinclair's leave for Polly. To be sure, she answered, Polly would think it an honour to attend Mrs. Lovelace: but the poor thing was tender-hearted; and as the tragedy was deep, would weep herself blind.
Thou remembrest what Shakespeare, in his Troilus and Cressida, makes Hector, who, however, is not used to boast, say to Achilles in an interview between them; and which, applied to this watchful lady, and to the vexation she has given me, and to the certainty I now think I have of subduing her, will run thus: supposing the charmer before me; and I meditating her sweet person from head to foot: Henceforth, O watchful fair-one, guard thee well: For I'll not kill thee there! nor there! nor there!
I hope you have endeavored to suit your 'Traineau' to the character of the fair-one whom it is to contain. Proper mottos, I take it for granted, that you have eventually prepared; but if not, you may find a great many ready-made ones in 'Les Entretiens d'Ariste et d'Eugene, sur les Devises', written by Pere Bouhours, and worth your reading at any time.
Would to Heaven I knew whether my fair-one answers her as freely as she writes! 'Twould vex a man's heart, that this virago should have come honestly by her fancies. Who knows but I may have half a dozen creatures to get off my hands, before I engage for life?
I have her in my head; and moreover have contrived to give my fair-one an hint of that affair, by the agency of honest Joseph Leman;* although I have not reaped the hoped-for credit of her acknowledgement. * See Vol. II. Letter XXVII. That's the devil; and it was always my hard fate every thing I do that is good, is but as I ought!
They know it before my beloved knows it; and that, thou wilt say, is odd. But how shall I do to make my fair-one keep her temper on the intimation? Why, is she not here? At Mrs. Sinclair's? But if she will hear reason, I doubt not to convince her, that she ought to acquiesce. She will insist, I suppose, upon my leaving her, and that I shall not take up my lodgings under the same roof.
You would grace a prince, my fair-one, said the good, kind, kind gentleman! in that dress, or any you shall choose: And you look so pretty, that, if you shall not catch cold in that round-eared cap, you shall go just as you are. But, sir, said I, then you'll be pleased to go a bye-way, that it mayn't be seen you do so much honor to your servant.
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