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me. You shall immediately join your regiment there. You know it is your duty. In the mean time, fomething may happen. Heaven will not defert two faithful hearts that love like your's and mine. There are joys; there is happiness in ftore for us yet. I feel there is. And (as I faid juft now) while you are in Ireland, I'll write to you every poft, twice by one poft, and I'll think of you, and I'll dream of you, and I'll kifs your picture, and I'll wipe my eyes, and I'll kiss it again, and then I'll weep again. And

Can I give a ftronger inftance of my regard for you, or a stronger proof that you ought to take my advice, than my thus begging my only joy to leave me? I will not swear I fhall furvive it; but, I beseech you, go!

Fool that I am--I usdo with one hand, all I do with the other. My tears, which drop between every word I write, prevent the effect of my reafoning; which, I am fure, is juft.

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Be a man, I fay-you are an angel. Join your regiment; and, as fure as I love you. (nothing can be more fure) I will recall you, from what will be banishment as much to me as to you, the first moment I can marry you with honour to my felf, and happiness

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Il fuits the voice of love, when glory calls,"
And bids thee fellow Jephtha to the field..

LETTER

XXIII.

To Mifs

Cannon Coffe-house, 17 March, 1776.

AND I will respect the vow of Jephtha, and I will follow to the field. At least, I will think of it all to-night, for I am fure I fhall not fleep, and will let you know the fuccefs. of my struggle, for a ftruggle it will be tomorrow. I will wait for you at the fame place

place in the park, where I fhall fee you open the A. door. Should it rain-I'll write. It was my intention to have endeavoured to fee you now, but I changed my mind, and wrote this, here; and I am glad I did. We are not in a condition to fee each other. Cruel debts! Rather, cruel vow! for, would you but have let me, I would have contrived fome fcheme about your debts. I could form a plan. My Gofport matters -my commiffion

Alas, you frown, and I muft ftop. Why would not fortune fmile upon my two lottery tickets? Heaven knows I bought them on your account. Upon the back of one of them I wrote, in cafe of my fudden death," this is the property of Miss-." On the back of the other, that it belonged to your daughter.

For what am I ftill referved?

LE T

LETTER XXIV.

To Mr

A. 19 March, 1776.

WHY, why do you write to me fo often? Why do you see me so often? When you acknowledge the neceflity of complying. with my advice.

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You tell me, if I bid you, you'll go. I have bid you, begged you to go.-I do bid you go. Go, I conjure you, go! But let us not have any more partings. The laft was too, too much. I did not recover myself all day. And your goodness to my little white-headed boy-He made me burst into tears this morning, by talking of the good-natured gentleman, and producing your present.

Either ftay, and let our affection difcover and ruin us or go.

On the bended knees of love I entreat you, H., my dearest H. to go.

LE T

LETTER

To Mifs

XXV.

Ireland, 26 March, 1776.

IRELAND-England-Good Heavens,

that M. should be in one part of the world, and her H. in another! Will not our deftinies fuffer us to breathe the fame air? Mine will not, I moft firmly believe, let me reft, till they have hunted me to death.

Will you not give me your approbation for obeying you thus? Approbation! And is that the coin to pass between us?

Yet, I will obey you further. I will reftrain my pen as much as poffible. I will scratch the word love out of my dictionary. I will forget-I lie-I never can, nor ever will forget you, or any thing which belongs to you. But I will, as you wifely advise, and kindly defire me, as much as poffible, write on other fubjects. Every thing entertaining, that I can procure, I will. I'll Twiffy, and write Tours-or any thing

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