ABSTRACT
My own situation was peculiar; and it was not long before I experienced the effects of it. The talk of Isabella and myself was all of love. We were both of us most anxious to bring about the union of this enamoured youth and his mistress. We spoke of the enviable delights which sprung from the sympathy of two hearts devoted to each other, of the hopes, the fears, the anxieties, the agonies, that grew out of an ardent attachment. The tones of our voice / adapted themselves to the topics of which we discoursed; and, as we expatiated on the enamoured feelings of the one party or the other, we unconsciously adopted their language, and mimicked their gestures, and were for the moment the very persons we so earnestly represented.
