on full consideration.' He sighed, as Bella told us, when he took his
leave of her: 'Profoundly sighed; grasped her hand, and kissed it with
such an ardour--Withdrew with such an air of solemn respect--She could
almost find it in her heart, although he had vexed her, to pity him.'
A good intentional preparative to love, this pity; since, at the time,
she little thought that he would not renew his offer.

He waited on my mother after he had taken leave of Bella, and reported
his ill success in so respectful a manner, as well with regard to my
sister, as to the whole family, and with so much concern that he was
not accepted as a relation to it, that it left upon them all (my
brother being then, as I have said, in Scotland) impressions in his
favour, and a belief that this matter would certainly be brought on
again. But Mr. Lovelace going up directly to town, where he staid a
whole fortnight, and meeting there with my uncle Antony, to whom he
regretted his niece's cruel resolution not to change her state; it was
seen that there was a total end of the affair.

My sister was not wanting to herself on this occasion. She made a
virtue of necessity; and the man was quite another man with her. 'A
vain creature! Too well knowing his advantages: yet those not what
she had conceived them to be!--Cool and warm by fits and starts; an
ague-like lover. A steady man, a man of virtue, a man of morals, was
worth a thousand of such gay flutterers. Her sister Clary might think
it worth her while perhaps to try to engage such a man: she had
patience: she was mistress of persuasion: and indeed, to do the girl
justice, had something of a person: But as for her, she would not have
a man of whose heart she could not be sure for one moment; no, not for
the world: and most sincerely glad was she that she had rejected him.'