"She was fully persuaded, that at first she had made a terrible breach in his heart; but hearing nothing more of him, she supposed that he had quitted the pursuit, disgusted by the lowness of her origin, and knowing upon other terms than marriage he had nothing to hope from such a dragon of virtue as she professed herself; or else, that being naturally capricious and changeable, the remembrance of her charms had been effaced from the Condé's heart by those of some newer beauty."
The Monk: A Romance
12 entries in ESTC (1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1799, 1800).<br>
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See <u>The Monk: A Romance. In Three Volumes.</u> (London: Printed for J. Bell, 1796). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T132693">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004888900.0001.001">Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004888900.0001.002">Vol. II</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004888900.0001.003">Vol. III</a>&gt;<br>
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Pre-published as <u>The Monk: A Romance. In Three Volumes.</u> (London: Printed for J. Bell, 1795). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/N61395">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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See also the substantially revised fourth edition: <u>Ambrosio, or the monk: a romance. By M.G. Lewis, Esq. M.P. In three volumes.</u> The fourth edition, with considerable additions and alterations. (London: Printed for J. Bell, 1798). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T146828">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;