FAVOURITE OF NATURE. A TALE. Que c'est un fatal présent du Ciel qu'une âme sensible! ROUSSEAU. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: PRINTED FOR G. AND W. B. WHITTAKER, AVE-MARIA-LANE. THE FAVOURITE OF NATURE. 955 K296 fav v. 2 CHAP. I. It was a sentiment of prudence, rather than of love, that, after a deliberation of some days, induced Eliza to incline to the acceptance of Mortimer's proposals. She knew that she was not passionately attached to him: not by any means so much attached to him as he was to her; but she had sense enough to believe that the value and regard she felt for his domestic virtues, his cultivated mind, and the increasing interest she took in his society, would prove of a more permanent duration, and afford a more stable foundation for connubial bliss, than au extravagant passion. |