ABSTRACT
It was soon after this interview, that Mr. Melville, (who had beheld Williams’s attentions of late, with a newly awakened suspicion) took the resolution to fathom the degree of interest he had made in the heart of Dorothea; for the imposing air and deep erudition she affected, were at any time almost sufficient to silence the good gentleman; and it required all his resolution to get above the fear of distressing, or I might more properly say, offending, his dear Dory.
