In
short, they seemed to relish each other's conversation, during which
our young Damon acquitted himself with great skill in all the duties
of gallantry: he laid hold of proper opportunities to express his
admiration of her charms, had recourse to the silent rhetoric of tender
looks, breathed divers insidious sighs, and attached himself wholly to
her during the remaining part of the entertainment.

When the company broke up, he attended her to her lodgings, and
took leave of her with a squeeze of the hand, after having obtained
permission to visit her next morning, and been informed by the mother
that her name was Miss Emilia Gauntlet.

All night long he closed not an eye, but amused himself with plans of
pleasure, which his imagination suggested in consequence of this new
acquaintance. He rose with the lark, adjusted his hair into an agreeable
negligence of curl, and dressing himself in a genteel gray frock trimmed
with silver binding, waited with the utmost impatience for the hour
of ten, which no sooner struck than he hied him to the place of
appointment, and inquiring for Miss gauntlet, was shown into a parlour.
Here he had not waited above ten minutes, when Emilia entered in a most
enchanting undress, with all the graces of nature playing about her
person, and in a moment riveted the chains of his slavery beyond the
power of accident to unbind.

Her mother being still abed, and her brother gone to give orders about
the chaise, in which they proposed to return that same day to their
own habitation, he enjoyed her company a whole hour, during which he
declared his love in the most passionate terms, and begged that he might
be admitted into the number of those admirers whom she permitted to
visit and adore her.

She affected to look upon his vows and protestations as the ordinary
effect of gallantry, and very obligingly assured him that were she to
live in that place she should be glad to see him often; but as the
spot on which she resided was at a considerable distance, she could not
expect he would go so far, upon such a trifling occasion, as to take the
trouble of providing himself with her mamma's permission.

To this favourable hint he with all the eagerness of the most fervent
passion, that he had uttered nothing but the genuine dictates of his
heart; that he desired nothing so much as an opportunity of evincing the
sincerity of his professions; and that, though he lived at the extremity
of the kingdom,