st know it to be so; if not
before he brought you to it, soon after.

>>> Perhaps the company he found there, may be the
most probable way of accounting for his bearing
with the house, and for his strange suspensions of
marriage, when it was in his power to call such an
angel of a woman his.--

>>> O my dear, the man is a villain!--the greatest
of villains, in every light!--I am convinced that he
is.--And this Doleman must be another of his
implements!

>>> There are so many wretches who think that to
be no sin, which is one of the greatest and most
ungrateful of all sins,--to ruin young creatures of
our sex who place their confidence in them; that
the wonder is less than the shame, that people, of
appearance at least, are found to promote the horrid
purposes of profligates of fortune and interest!

>>> But can I think [you will ask with indignant
astonishment] that Lovelace can have designs upon
your honour?

>>> That such designs he has had, if he still hold
them or not, I can have no doubt, now that I know
the house he has brought you to, to be a vile one.
This is a clue that has led me to account for all his
behaviour to you ever since you have been in his
hands.

Allow me a brief retrospection of it all.

We both know, that pride, revenge, and a delight
to tread in unbeaten paths, are principal ingredients
in the character of this finished libertine.

>>> He hates all your family--yourself excepted:
and I have several times thought, that I have seen
>>> him stung and mortified that love has obliged him
to kneel at your footstool, because you are a Har-
lowe. Yet is this wretch a savage in love.--Love
>>> that humanizes the fiercest spirits, has not been able
to subdue his. His pride, and the credit which a
>>> few plausible qualities, sprinkled among his odious
ones, have given him, have secured him too good
a reception from our eye-judging, our undistinguish-
ing, our self-flattering, our too-confiding sex, to
make assiduity and obsequiousness, and a conquest
of his unruly passions, any part of his study.

>>> He has some reason for his animosity to all the
men, and to one woman of your family. He has
always shown you, and his own family too, that he
>>> prefers his pri