ABSTRACT
‘I have often been in prison,’ said Mr. M –, interrupting Mr. Hamilton, ‘so that you may spare yourself the description of the scene that followed: I can fully sympathise with your present dilemma. Your other adventures have, I acknowledge, been in a sphere of which I know nothing. Love has never given me any pain; and until I came here, and wanted a housewife, I took care to avoid the chains of matrimony. You are yet young, Sir, and the memory / of all these griefs will, I trust, before long pass away. As soon as you have composed yourself, let me request you once more to resume your narrative.’
