Wonder not, however, at your Bell's unsisterly behaviour in this
affair: I have a particular to add to the inducements your insolent
brother is governed by, which will account for all her driving. You
have already owned, that her outward eye was from the first struck
with the figure and address of the man whom she pretends to despise,
and who, 'tis certain, thoroughly despises her: but you have not told
me, that still she loves him of all men. Bell has a meanness in her
very pride; that meanness rises with her pride, and goes hand in hand
with it; and no one is so proud as Bell. She has owned her love, her
uneasy days, and sleepless nights, and her revenge grafted upon her
love, to her favourite Betty Barnes--To lay herself in the power of a
servant's tongue! Poor creature!--But LIKE little souls will find one
another out, and mingle, as well as LIKE great ones. This, however,
she told the wench in strict confidence: and thus, by way of the
female round-about, as Lovelace had the sauciness on such another
occasion, in ridicule of our sex, to call it, Betty (pleased to be
thought worthy of a secret, and to have an opportunity of inveighing
against Lovelace's perfidy, as she would have it to be) told it to one
of her confidants: that confidant, with like injunctions of secrecy,
to Miss Lloyd's Harriot--Harriot to Miss Lloyd--Miss Lloyd to me--I to
you--with leave to make what you please of it.

And now you will not wonder to find Miss Bell an implacable rival,
rather than an affectionate sister; and will be able to account for
the words witchcraft, syren, and such like, thrown out against you;
and for her driving on for a fixed day for sacrificing you to Solmes:
in short, for her rudeness and violence of every kind.

What a sweet revenge will she take, as well upon Lovelace as upon you,
if she can procure her rival sister to be married to the man that