- I Must Confess I Had Not Resolution
Enough To Suffer So Cruel An Injustice, And Being
Too Much Overcome By My Passion To Resent It As
I Ought, I Left The Place, And Desired Our Friend To
Do It For Me.
- I find she somewhat exceeded
her commission, but you must forgive her, since
it was her love for me:
- I am now at her
house, where I impatiently expect you - The
baron is secure for some hours; - those we may
pass together, if you still think there is any thing
worth quitting the masquerade for, to be found
in the arms of
Yours, &c,
P.S. If you now fail, no excuse hereafter shall
ever plead your pardon.'
This letter confirmed Horatio in the belief he had before, that he had
been mistaken by the lady for some favorite person; but who the lady
was, he was as much in the dark as ever; nor would he have given himself
any trouble concerning it, if he had not hoped by that means to have
retrieved the good opinion of Charlotta. He was however impatient to
shew her the letter, as he doubted not but she had seen it delivered to
him; but with all his assiduity he could not obtain one word in private
during the masquerade; and when it was broke up, which was not till near
morning, and they returned to St. Germains, it was impossible, because
he knew she must be in the princess's chamber, as he in that of the
Chevalier St. George:
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