ld be seized,
and exposed to the brutal treatment of wretches who have no bowels.

If you can engage Mr. Lovelace to keep his temper upon it, I think you
should acquaint him with it, but not to mention Miss Lloyd. Perhaps his
wicked agent may come at the intelligence, and reveal it to him. But
leave it to your own discretions to do as you think fit in it. All my
concern is, that this daring and foolish project, if carried on, will
be a mean of throwing you more into his power than ever. But as it will
convince you that there can be no hope of a reconciliation, I wish you
were actually married, let the cause for prosecution hinted at be what
it will, short of murder or a rape.

Your Hannah was very thankful for your kind present. She heaped a
thousand blessings upon you for it. She has Mr. Lovelace's too by this
time.

I am pleased with Mr. Hickman, I can tell you:--for he has sent her
two guineas by the person who carries Mr. Lovelace's five, as from an
unknown hand: nor am I, or you, to know it. But he does a great many
things of this sort, and is as silent as the night in his charities; for
nobody knows of them till the gratitude of the benefited will not let
them be concealed. He is now and then my almoner, and, I believe, always
adds to my little benefactions.

But his time is not come to be praised to his face for these things; nor
does he seem to want that encouragement.

The man certainly has a good mind. Nor can we expect in one man every
good quality. But he is really a silly fellow, my dear, to trouble his
head about me, when he sees how much I despise his whole sex; and
must of course make a common man look like a fool, were he not to
make himself look like one, by wishing to pitch his tent so oddly. Our
likings and dislikings, as I have often thought, are seldom governed by
prudence, or with a view to happiness. The eye, my dear, the wicked eye,
has such a strict alliance with the heart--and both have such enmity to
the judgment!--What an unequal union, the mind and body! All the senses,
like the family at Harlowe-place, in a confederacy against that which
would animate, and give honour to the whole, were it allowed its proper
precedence.

Permit me, I beseech you, before you go to London to send you
forty-eight guineas. I mention that sum to oblige you, because, by
accepting back the two to Hannah, I will hold you indebted to me
fifty.--Surely this will induce you! You know that I cannot want the
mo