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 tronget Evidence of what he endeavoured to conceal by uch Otentation.

It may, perhaps, be a Quetion, whether the Art which he ued to conceal his Paion, or the Means which honet Nature employed to reveal it, betrayed him mot: For while Art made him more than ever reerved to Sophia, and forbad him to addres any of his Dicoure to her; nay, to avoid meeting her Eyes, with the utmot Caution; Nature was no les buy in counterplotting him. Hence, at the Approach of the young Lady, he grew pale; and if this was udden, tarted. If his Eyes accidentally met hers, the Blood ruhed into his Cheeks and his Countenance became all over Scarlet. If common Civility ever obliged him to peak to her, as to drink her Health at Table, his Tongue was ure to faulter. If he touched her his Hand, nay his whole Frame trembled. And if any Dicoure tended, however remotely, to raie the Idea of Love, an involuntary Sigh eldom failed to teal from his Boom. Mot of which Accidents Nature was wonderfully indutrious to throw daily in his Way.

All thee Symptoms ecaped the Notice of the Squire; but not o of Sophia. She