of any one man as a man worthy of your favour?
Did he!—Yes, of the Count of Belvedere. He was more earnest in his favour—
Really?
Yes, really—than I thought he ought to be.
Why so?
Why so!—Why, because—because—Why what was it to him—you know?
I suppose he was put upon it—
I believe so.
Or he would not—
I believe, if the truth were known, you, Mrs. Beaumont, hate Mr. Grandison. You are the only person that I ever in my life heard speak of him, even with indifference.

Tell me, my dear Clementina, What are you sincere thoughts of Mr. Grandison, person and mind?
You may gather them from what I have said.
That he is an handsome man; a generous, a prudent, a brave, a polite man.
Indeed I think him to be all you have said: And I am not singular.
But he is a Mahometan —
A Mahometan! madam—Ah, Mrs. Beaumont!
And ah, my dear Clementina!—And do you think I have not found you out?—Had you never known Mr. Grandison, you would not have scrupled to have been Countess of Belvedere.
And can you think, madam—
Yes, yes, my dear young Lady, I can.
My good Mrs. Beaumont, you don't know what I was going to say.
Be sincere, my dear young Lady. Cannot a Lover, talking to a second person, be sincere?
What! madam, a man of another religion! A man obstinate in his errors! a man who has never professed Love to me! a man of inferior degree! A man who owns himself absolutely dependent upon his father's bounty! His father living to the height of his estate!—Forbid it pride, dignity of birth, duty, religion—
Well then, I may safely take up the praises of Mr. Grandison: You have imputed to me, slight, injustice, prejudice against him: Let me now shew you, that the Prophet HAS honour with his countrywoman. Let me collect his character from the mouth of every man who has spoken of him in my hearing or knowlege—His country has not in this age sent abroad a private man who has done it more credit. He is a man of honour in every sense of the word: If moral rectitude, if practical religion (your brother the Barone testifies this on his own experience) were lost in the rest of the world, it would, without glare

or osentation, be found in him. He is courted by