Chapter 18

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​​​​‌⁠Why did she love him? Curious fool, be still!

Is human love the growth of human will?

To her he might be gentleness!

LORD BYRON.

In three weeks from the time of his arrival, Captain Clifford was the most admired man in Bath. It is true the gentlemen, who have a quicker tact as to the respectability of their own sex than women, might have looked a little shy upon him, had he not himself especially shun