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32) Sir Charles Grandison scorned to deny herself when at Home, as she looked on that fashionable method of shutting out disagreable Visitors, as little les than downright Bigamy.

In spite of the wine she had been drinking, poor Alice was uncommonly out of spirits; she could think of nothing but Charles Adams, she could talk of nothing but him, in short spoke so openly that Lady Williams soon covered the affection she bore him, which excited her Pity Compaſsion so strongly that she addreſsed her in the following Manner.

"I perceive but too plainly my dear Mis"