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Nay, surely you admire it: positively you must. I doat upon it; and Mr. Clutterbuck says, no lover could have said any thing of his mistress so exquisitely impassioned—so finely imagined.

I believe, indeed, no lover would have said any thing like it.

And again, which is, perhaps, more exquisite still,— Is not that impassioned? Is not that sublime?

I dare not pretend to judge of what is so honoured by your ladyship's approbation. But you have stopped short at the only lines in the whole speech that appear to me, although with some degree of conceit, to express the natural feelings of a lover.

Indeed! Repeat them, I pray.