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Updated: June 27, 2025
You will see how he puts his present and his future happiness, 'with regard to both worlds, entirely upon me. The ardour with which he vows and promises, I think the heart only can dictate: how else can one guess at a man's heart? You will also see, 'that he has already heard of the interview I am to have with Mr. Solmes; and with what vehemence and anguish he expresses himself on the occasion.
The prince of Wirtemberg had taken one of the enemies' batteries, and actually penetrated into their lines; but finding himself in danger of being overpowered by numbers, he sent an aidecamp twice to demand succours from Solmes, who derided his distress, saying, "Let us see what sport these English bull-dogs will make."
Solmes, when I could resume it when I would! My brother and she my heirs! O the artful creature! I to resolve to live single, when Lovelace is so sure of me and every where declares as much! and can whenever he pleases, if my husband, claim under the will! Should name a husband for her elder sister!
To threaten as he threatens; yet to pretend, that it is not to intimidate me; and to beg of you not to tell me, when he must know you would, and no doubt intended that you should, is so meanly artful! The man must think he has a frightened fool to deal with. I, to join hands with such a man of violence! my own brother the man whom he threatens! And what has Mr. Solmes done to him?
Yet has he so behaved, that the common phrase is applied to him, That Sir Oliver will never be dead while Mr. Solmes lives. My heart is a little at ease, on the hopes that my mother will be able to procure favour for me, and a deliverance from this man; and so I have leisure to moralize.
Gwen spent much of the evening writing a long letter to her father at Bath, giving a full account of her day's work, and ending: "I do hope the dear old soul will bear it. Mrs. Solmes has just given me a most promising report of her. I cannot suppose her constant references to the Benevolence of Providence to be altogether euphemisms in the interest of the Almighty.
It was said on purpose, I doubted not, to have an argument against me of absolute prepossession in Mr. Lovelace's favour: since Mr. Wyerley every where avows his value, even to veneration, for me; and is far less exceptionable both in person and mind, than Mr. Solmes: and I was willing to turn the tables, by trying how far Mr.
She need not be so officious: my brother's interest, without hers, is strong enough; for he has found means to confederate all the family against me. Upon some fresh provocation, or new intelligence concerning Mr. Solmes, in support of my father's authority, as it is called, and against Mr. Lovelace, as a libertine, and an enemy to the family: and if so, I am sure, I may say against me.
Should I be either detected in those preparations, or pursued and overtaken in my flight, and so brought back, then would they think themselves doubly warranted to compel me to have their Solmes: and, conscious of an intended fault, perhaps, I should be the less able to contend with them.
In this view, must not the very richness of the patterns add to my disgusts? Great encouragement, indeed, to think of adorning one's self to be the wife of Mr. Solmes! Upon the whole, it was not possible for me to go down upon the prescribed condition. Do you think it was?
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