, Sir Charles (tho' politely, and kindly enough, yet too sensibly for my recollection) compared me.
Do you wonder, Lucy, that I cannot hold up my head, when I recollect the figure I must make in that odious Masquerade-habit, hanging by my clasping arms about the neck of such a young gentleman? Can I be more effectually humbled than by such a recollection? And yet is not this an instance of that false shame in me, to which Sir Charles Grandison is so greatly superior?

Surely, surely, I have had my punishment for my compliances with this foolish world. False glory, and false shame, the poor Harriet has never been totally above. Why was I so much indulged? Why was I allowed to stop so many miles short of my journey▪s end, and then complimented, as if I had no farther to go?—but surely, I was past all shame, when I gave my consent to make such an appearance, as I made, among a thousand strangers, at a Masquerade!
But now, I think, something offers of blame in the character of this almost faultless man, as his sister, and her Jenny, represent him to be.
I cannot think, from a hint given by Miss Grandison, that he is quite so frank, and so unreserved, as his sister is. Nay, it was more than a hint: I will repeat her very words: She had been mentioning her own openness of heart, and yet confessing that she would have kept one or two things from him, that affected him not.
'But as for my brother, said she, he winds one about, and about, yet seems not to have more curiosity than one would wish him to have. Led on by his smiling benignity, and fond of his attention to my prattle, I have caught myself in the midst of a tale of which I intended not to tell him one syllable.


'O Sir Charles, where am I got? have I said; and suddenly stopt.


'Proceed, my Charlotte! No reserves to your nearest friend.


'Yet he has his, and I have winded and winded about him, as he had done about me; but all to no purpose.


'Nevertheless, he has found means, insensibly, to set me on again with my own story, till I had told him all I knew of the matter; and all the time I was intending only that my frankness should be an example to him; when he, instead of answering my wishes, double-locked the