ABSTRACT
TO play the lover is not difficult to most men, even where their hearts are not really interested. A few fine speeches, a little common-placea declamation, are easily produced and generally accepted: but Willoughby, always a very poor dissembler, and who felt, in despite of every effort to repress them, sentiments towards Miss Fitz-Hayman, bordering on antipathy, was very conscious that he should ill answer her ideas of a passionate lover, and this consciousness deprived him of the little power he might otherwise have had to dissemble.
