question and your answer, whatever it shall be, may take us up time.--
And you are engaged. Will you permit me to attend you in the morning,
before I set out on my return?

You will then breakfast with me, Captain?

It must be early if I do. I must reach my own house to-morrow night, or
I shall make the best of wives unhappy. And I have two or three places
to call at in my way.

It shall be by seven o'clock, if you please, Captain. We are early
folks. And this I will tell you, that if ever I am reconciled to a
family so implacable as I have always found the Harlowes to be, it must
be by the mediation of so cool and so moderate a gentleman as yourself.

And so, with the highest civilities on both sides, we parted. But for
the private satisfaction of so good a man, I left him out of doubt that
we were man and wife, though I did not directly aver it.



LETTER VI

MR. LOVELACE, TO JOHN BELFORD, ESQ.
SUNDAY NIGHT.


This Captain Tomlinson is one of the happiest as well as one of the best
men in the world. What would I give to stand as high in my beloved's
opinion as he does! but yet I am as good a man as he, were I to tell my