Ingenious and diverting letters of a lady's travels into Spain; describing the devotions, nunneries, humour, customs, laws, militia, trade, diet, and recreations of that people / [Marie Catherine Jumelle de Berneville Aulnoy].
- Madame d'Aulnoy
- Date:
- 1717
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Ingenious and diverting letters of a lady's travels into Spain; describing the devotions, nunneries, humour, customs, laws, militia, trade, diet, and recreations of that people / [Marie Catherine Jumelle de Berneville Aulnoy]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![make ufe of the firft Occafion to acquaint imewith it. Pavia ed him ever fince I hada Converfation with one of my Friends, - who had more Experience and Knowledge of the World than i I had felt, that Mendex’s Company gave me Joy, and that my Heart had an Emotion for him, which it had not for others : ‘That when his Affairs, or our Vifits, hinder’d him from feeing me, I grew reftlefs; and loving this young Woman, above others, arid being as dear to her, fhe obferv’d I was not fo free and gay as | was wont, and that my Eyes were fometimes at- tentively fixed on Mendez. One Day, when fhe rally’d with me about it, I faid to her very innocently, My Dear Henrietta, de- fine to me the Sentiments I bave for Mendez : 1 know not avbetber F “ought to be afraid of them, and whether I ought not to defend myfeif from them I feel T know not what fort of Trouble and Pleafure ‘arifing in my Breaft. She began to laugh 5 fhe embraced me, and {aid to me, My dear Heart, you are in Love, Who, Lin Love? replied I, in amaze: You joke with me 3 I neither am, nor will be in Love. This depends not always on us, continued fhe, with a more ferious Air 5 our Stars decide this beforeour Hearts. But, in earneft, avhat is it fo much flartles you ? Mendez is in a Condition equal to yours 3 be deferves well, a good comely Man 5 and if bis Affairs go on with the fame Succefs as they bave done bitherto, you may live very happily with bim. And whence fhould I learn, applied I, in. terrupting her, that be will be happy with me, and that be fo much as thinks this. O take my Word for it, anfwered fhe, whatever he bas done bas its Defigns 5 for Men are not wont to pas Nights under Windows, andthe Days in following a Perfon for whom they bave ne- shing but Indifferency. After fome otherDifcourfe of this Nature, fhe left me, and I refolv’d, maugre the Repugnance Ifelt in me, to give Mende no Opportunity of {peaking to me in particular. . But one Night, as I was walking in the Garden, he came to- wards me : I was perplex’d to fee myfelf alone with him 5 and he had the Opportunity of obferving it in my Countenance, and in the Manner after which I receiv’d him. ‘This could not divert him from the Defign he had of entertaining me : How happy am I, Madam, faid he, to find you alone? But I do call my- felf bappy! Perbaps I know not what I fay 5 for it may be you will not receive a Secrat with which I would entruft you. Lamas yet fo young, faid Itohim, blufhing, that I would advife youto fay nothing to me, unle]s you would bave me impart it to my Companions. Alas : ‘continued he, /hould Itell you, I adore you 5 that all my Happinejs | depends on the Inclinations you have towards me 5 that I cannot live avithout fome Certainty, that Imay one Day pleafe you : Will you pe ice. É 4 ts](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30538178_0077.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
