But every thing must have an end. XXX Oh! But to return to our situation.—
Aster dinner, which we eat a-bed in a most voluptuous disorder, Charles got up, and taking a passionate leave of me for a few hours, he went to town, where concerting matters with a young sharp lawyer, they went together to my late venerable mistress’s, from whence I had but the day before made my elopement, and with whom he was determin’d to settle accounts in a manner that should cut off all after-reckonings from that quarter. and that joy lost in a crowd of yet greater blisses; but this was a disorder too violent in nature to last long: the vessels so stir’d, and intensely heated, soon boil’d over, and for that time put out the fire: mean while all this dalliance and disport had so far consum’d the morning, that
