e, you durst not harbour the
thought of executing your execrable scheme, while you knew my brother
was near enough to prevent or revenge the insult; so that you must not
only be a treacherous villain, but also a most despicable coward."

Having expressed herself in this manner, with a most majestic severity
of aspect, she opened the door, and walking down-stairs with
surprising resolution, committed herself to the care of a watchman, who
accommodated her with a hackney-chair, in which she was safely conveyed
to her uncle's house.

Meanwhile, the lover was so confounded and overawed by these cutting
reproaches, and her animated behaviour, that all his resolution forsook
him, and he found himself not only incapable of obstructing her retreat,
but even of uttering one syllable to deprecate her wrath, or extenuate
the guilt of his own conduct. The nature of his disappointment, and the
keen remorse that seized him, when he reflected upon the dishonourable
footing on which his character stood with Emilia, raised such
perturbation in his mind, that his silence was succeeded by a violent
fit of distraction, during which he raved like a bedlamite, and acted
a thousand extravagancies, which convinced the people of the house, a
certain bagnio, that he had actually lost his wits. Pipes, with great
concern, adopted the same opinion; and, being assisted by the waiters,
hindered him, by main force, from running out and pursuing the fair
fugitive, whom, in his delirium, he alternately cursed and commended
with horrid imprecations and lavish applause. His faithful valet,
having waited two whole hours, in hopes of seeing this gust of passion
overblown, and perceiving that the paroxysm seemed rather to increase,
very prudently sent for a physician of his master's acquaintance,
who, having considered the circumstances and symptoms of the disorder,
directed that he should be plentifully blooded, without loss of time,
and prescribed a draught to compose the tumult of his spirits. These
orders being punctually performed, he grew more calm and tractable,
recovered his reflection so far as to be ashamed of the ecstasy he had
undergone, and suffered himself quietly to be undressed and put to
bed, where the fatigue occasioned by his exercise at the masquerade
co-operated with the present dissipation of his spirits to lull him
into a profound sleep, which greatly tended to the preservation of his
intellects. Not that he found himself in a state o