I should as soon think of making a genteel suit of clothes out of
remnants: --and to do it--pop--at first sight, by declaration--is
submitting the offer, and themselves with it, to be sifted with all
their pours and contres, by an unheated mind.

The lady attended as if she expected I should go on.

Consider then, Madame, continued I, laying my hand upon hers:-

That grave people hate love for the name's sake; -

That selfish people hate it for their own; -

Hypocrites for heaven's; -

And that all of us, both old and young, being ten times worse
frightened than hurt by the very report,--what a want of knowledge
in this branch of commence a man betrays, whoever lets the word
come out of his lips, till an hour or two, at least, after the time
that his silence upon it becomes tormenting. A course of small,
quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm,--nor so vague as to
be misunderstood--with now and then a look of kindness, and little
or nothing said upon it,--leaves nature for your mistress, and she
fashions it to her mind. -

Then I solemnly declare, said the lady, blushing, you have been
making love to me all this while.


THE REMISE. CALAIS.