first ideas were to withdraw; but that he had been fix'd and detain'd there by a power he could better account for, than resist. What shall I say? my emotions, of fear and surprize were instantly subdu'd by those of the pleasure I bespoke in great presence of mind from the turn this adventure might take: he seem'd to me no other than a pitying angel, dropt out of the clouds; for he was young and perfectly handsome, which was more than even I had ask'd for; Man, in general, being all that my utmost desires had pointed at. I thought then I could not put too much encouragement into my eyes and voice; I regretted no leading advances: no matter for his after-opinion of my forwardness, so it might bring him to the point of answering my pressing demands of present ease; it was not now with his thoughts, but his actions, that my business immediately lay. I rais'd then my head, and told him in a soft tone that tended to prescribe the same key to him, that his mama was gone out, and
