which noYcr re-opens ; but in Protestant regions she has
time to cool, and that's the denoe ; so, instead of taking
the yeil, she takes a now lover.
Lady Aphrodite had worked np her mind and tho jonng
Duke to a step the very mention of which a jear before
would have made him shudder. What an enchanter is
Passion ! No wonder Ovid, who was a judge, made love
so much connected with his Metamorphoses. With infinite
difficulty she had dared to admit the idea of flying with
his Qrsce ; but when the idea was once admitted, when she
really had, once or twice, constantly dwelt on the idea of at
length being free from her tyrant, and perhaps about to
indulge in those beautiful affections for which she was
formed, and of which she had been rifled ; when, I say, all
this occurred, and her hero diplomatised, and, in short,
kept back ; why, she had advanced one step, without know-
ing it, to running away with another man.
It was unlucky that De Whiskerburg stepped in. An
Englishman would not have done. She knew them well,
and despised them all ; but he was new (dangerous
novelty), with a cast of feelings which, because they were
strange, she believed to be unhackneyed ; andr he was im-
passioned. We need not go on.
