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136 it, she observes strong towards you, by hints, and ambiguous assurances of a willingness to comply with any thing that would make him happy, for, if the declaration had been more direct, he would probably have suspected it of design; not content, I say, with this, she has seriously, in the way of asking my advice, sounded me about any hopes there might be entertained of your accepting her advances to you.

She was already in these dispositions, when a fit more violent than any of the preceding ones, and attended with his usual ravings on you, for your name has been constantly repeated in them, has so renewed her dread of the worst to him, especially as the Phisicians their-