this device
of his about Tomlinson and your uncle.

Device I have no doubt that it is, whatever this
dark, this impenetrable spirit intends by it.

>>> And yet I find it to be true, that Counsellor
Williams (whom Mr. Hickman knows to be a man
of eminence in his profession) has actually as good
>>> as finished the settlements: that two draughts of
them have been made; one avowedly to be sent to
one Captain Tomlinson, as the clerk says:--and I
find that a license has actually been more than once
endeavoured to be obtained; and that difficulties
have hitherto been made, equally to Lovelace's
>>> vexation and disappointment. My mother's proctor,
who is very intimate with the proctor applied to
by the wretch, has come at this information in
confidence; and hints, that, as Mr. Lovelace is a
man of high fortunes, these difficulties will probably
be got over.

But here follow the causes of my apprehension of
your danger; which I should not have had a thought
>>> of (since nothing very vile has yet been attempted)
but on finding what a house you are in, and, on that
discovery, laying together and ruminating on past
occurrences.

'You are obliged, from the present favourable
>>> appearances, to give him your company whenever
he requests it.--You are under a necessity of for-
getting, or seeming to forget, past disobligations;
and to receive his addresses as those of a betrothed
lover.--You will incur the censure of prudery and
affectation, even perhaps in your own apprehension,
if you keep him at that distance which has hitherto
>>> been your security.--His sudden (and as suddenly
recovered) illness has given him an opportunity to
find out that you love him. [Alas! my dear, I
knew you loved him!] He is, as you relate, every
>>> hour more and more an encroacher upon it. He
has seemed to change his nature, and is all love and
>>> gentleness. The wolf has put on the sheep's cloth-
ing; yet more than once has shown his teeth, and
his hardly-sheathed claws. The instance you have
given of his freedom with your person,* which you
could not but resent; and yet, as matters are
cricumstanced between you, could not but pass
over, when Tomlinson's letter called you into his
>>> company,** show the advantage he has n