them all: Fillamour, however, found enough in this mute language to make
him know, he was in as fair a way of happiness, as he cou'd wish; and
returning her glances with others as languishing, as the most melting
longing love cou'd teach the loveliest eyes in the world, they
continued, for some moments, thus transmitting souls--" until their
confidant hurries them out of the house.

After the elopement Fillamour is distracted by the opposing motives of
love and interest. To marry Philenia means ruin, for his ambitious
uncle, who has proposed an advantageous marriage to him, would never
forgive him for a love match. The innocent cause of his distress finally
discovers his perplexity and agrees to live a single life until they can
marry without loss of fortune. In this state of affairs "their love
seem'd to be a copy of that pure and immaterial passion, which angels
regard each other with, and, which we are allow'd to hope shall be our
portion, when, shaking off our earth, we meet in a happier world, where
we are to live and love forever." The lovers' paradise is invaded by
Philenia's father, who carries her home and locks her up more closely
than before. In a short time she has the shocking intelligence that
Fillamour has married according to the wishes of his worldly uncle. She
still remains constant to him, but "the remainder of her yet surprising
adventures," remarks the author, "and those of Antonia and Coeurdemont
must be told another time, having good reason to doubt my reader will be
tir'd, when I am so myself."

Eliza was perhaps the first to recover from the fatigue, for in a little
more than two months the continuation, costing sixpence more than the
first instalment, was offered to her readers.

After making his marriage of _convenance_ Fillamour again pays his court