and I wrote those
letters in common to you, I dare say you can fancy what my feelings might
have been towards such a beautiful young creature, who has a hundred
faults, for which I love her just as much as for the good that is in her.
I became dreadfully smitten indeed, and knowing that she was engaged to
Lord Kew, I did as you told me you did once when the enemy was too strong
for you--I ran away. I had a bad time of it for two or three months. At
Rome, however, I began to take matters more easily, my naturally fine
appetite returned, and at the end of the season I found myself uncommonly
happy in the society of the Miss Baliols and the Miss Freemans; but when
Kew told me at Naples of what had happened, there was straightway a fresh
eruption in my heart, and I was fool enough to come almost without sleep
to London in order to catch a glimpse of the bright eyes of E. N.
"She is now in this very house upstairs with one aunt, whilst the other
lets lodgings to her. I have seen her but very seldom indeed since I came
to London, where Sir Brian and Lady Anne do not pass the season, and
Ethel goes about to a dozen parties every week with old Lady Kew, who
neither loves you nor me.
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