. Instead of that awful
veneration which her presence used to inspire, that chastity of sentiment and
delicacy of expression, he now gazed upon her with the eyes of a libertine, he
glowed with the impatience of desire, talked in a strain that barely kept within
the bounds of decency, and attempted to snatch such favours as she, in the
tenderness of mutual acknowledgement, had once vouchsafed to bestow.
    Grieved and offended as she was, at this palpable alteration in his
carriage, she disdained to remind him of his former deportment, and with
dissembled good humour, rallied him on the progress he had made in gallantry and
address: but, far from submitting to the liberties he would have taken, she kept
her person sacred from his touch, and would not even suffer him to ravish a kiss
of her fair hand: so that he reaped no other advantage from the exercise of his
talents, during this interview, which lasted a whole hour, than that of knowing
he had over-rated his own importance; and that Emily's heart was not a garison
likely to surrender at discretion.
    At length, his addresses were interrupted by the arrival of the mother, who
had gone abroad to visit by herself; and the conversation becoming more general,
he understood, that Godfrey was at London, soliciting for a lieutenancy that had
fallen vacant in the regiment to which he belonged; and that Miss Sophy was at
home with her father.
    Though our adventurer had not met with all the success he expected in his
first visit, he did not despair of reducing the fortress, believing that in time
there would be a mutiny in his favour; and accordingly, carried on the siege for
several days, without profiting by his perseverance; till at length, having
attended the ladies to their own house in the country, he began to look upon
this adventure as time mispent, and resolved to discontinue his attack, in hopes
of meeting with a more favourable occasion; being, in the mean time, ambitious
of displaying, in an higher sphere, those qualifications which his vanity told
him, were at present misapplied.
 

                                 Chapter LXXIII

He attends his Uncle with great Affection, during a Fit of Illness. Sets out
again for London; meets with his Friend Godfrey, who is prevailed upon to
accompany him to Bath; on the Road to which Place, they chance to dine with a
Person, who entertains them with a curious Account of a certain Company of
Adventurers
 
Thus determined, he took leave of Emilia and her mother, on pretence of going to
London upon some urgent business, and returned to the garison
