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And if I can give you no more, your suit of course is at an end, and free to be preferred in some more worthy and favourable quarter.

O, do not say so! a more favourable, I painfully feel, may be easily found; a more worthy, never.

You set upon me an imaginary value.

Call it not so: I repeat my words; and permit me to add, adorable girl, that where worth is, favour deserves to be waited for. Say, that in a fortnight hence, I may have some chance of subduing your reluctance.

I cannot.

In a month, then?

That would make no difference.

Say two months, then—six months; ay, a whole year, if you can be so cruel as to withhold your consent to make me happy for so long a period.