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 ungovernable Force of her Love towards him; and this the Reader will allow to have been a very natural and probably Suppoition, as we have more than once mentioned the uncommon Comelines of this Peron: And indeed he was one of the handomet young Fellows in the World.

As there are ome Minds whoe Affections, like Mater Blifil’s, are olely placed on one ingle Peron, whoe Interet and indulgence alone they conider on every Occaion; regarding the Good and Ill of all others as merely indifferent, any farther than as they contribute to the Pleaure or Advantage of that Peron: So there is a different Temper of Mind which borrows a Degree of Virtue even from Self-love; uch can never receive any kind of Satisfaction from another, without loving the Creature to whom that Satisfaction is owing, and without making its Well-being in ome ort neceary to their own Eae.

Of this latter Species was our Heroe. He conidered this poor Girl as one whoe Happines or Miery he had caued to be dependent on himelf. Her Beauty was till the Object of Deire, though greater Beauty, or a freher Object, might have been more