per.

And these motions I could make, even those with my hand, without holding
up my arm, or moving my wrist, had the women been there; as, when the
motions were agreed upon, I knew not but they would.

She hemmed--I was going to speak, to spare her supposed confusion: but
this lady never wants presence of mind, when presence of mind is
necessary either to her honour, or to that conscious dignity which
distinguishes her from all the women I ever knew.

I have been considering, said she, as well as I was able, of every thing
that has passed; and of all that has been said; and of my unhappy
situation. I mean no ill, I wish no ill, to any creature living, Mr.
Tomlinson. I have always delighted to draw favourable rather than
unfavourable conclusions; sometimes, as it has proved, for very bad
hearts. Censoriousness, whatever faults I have, is not naturally my
fault.--But, circumstanced as I am, treated as I have been, unworthily
treated, by a man who is full of contrivances, and glories in them--

Lovel. My dearest life!--But I will not interrupt you.

Cl. Thus treated, it becomes me to doubt--it concerns my honour to
doubt, to fear, to apprehend--your intervention, Sir, is so seasonable,
so kind, for this man--my uncle's expedient, the first of the kind he
ever, I believe, thought of! a plain, honest, good-minded man, as he is,
not affecting such expedients--your report in conformity to it--the
consequences of that report; the alarm taken by my brother; his rash
resolution upon it--the alarm taken by Lady Betty, and the rest of Mr.
Lovelace's relations--the sudden letters written to him upon it, which,
with your's, he showed me--all ceremony, among persons born observers of
ceremony, and entitled to value themselves upon their distinction,
dispensed with--all these things have happened so quick, and some of them
so seasonable--

Lovel. Lady Betty, you see, Madam, in her letter, dispenses with
punctilo, avowedly in compliment to you. Charlotte, in her's, professes
to do the same for the same reason. Good Heaven! that the respect
intended you by my relations, who, in every other case, are really
punctilious, should be thus construed! They were glad, Madam, to have an
opportunity to compliment you at my expense. Every one of my family
takes delight in rallying me. But their joy on the supposed occasion--

Cl. Do I doubt, Sir, that you have not something to say for any thing
you think fit to do? I am spe