34 The ADVENTURES of
•where I flept, from whence there was a paflage by a pair of back flairs, into the garden, and anointed my whole body with offence ; I then put on a clean Jhiit flrongly perfumed, and having neglected nothing which I thought might flatter the pafTion of my mif- trefs, went direflly to the place of aflignation.
Not finding Ortiz there, I concluded, that tired with waiting for me, fhc had returned to her apartment, and that the happy minute was part. I blamed Don Vincent for it, and as I was curfing his campaigns, heard it drike ten. This made me believe that the clock went wrong, for I was perfuaded that it was at lead an hour paft midnight, but I was fo happily miflaken, that a good quarter of an hour after this, I heard another clock ftrike ten again. t; Very well (faid I to myfclf) I have but two whole hours to dance attendance, and they (hall have no caufc to complain of my pun&uality. What mud we do till twelve? Let us take a turn in the garden, and confidcr the part I am to play, which is a pretty new one to me who am but a novice in the whims of women of quality. I know well enough how to behave with Abigails and aXrcfTcs; thefe you accod with a familiar air, and come to the point without ceremony : but wc mud go another way to work with ladies of fa Hi ion : the gallant I imagine, mud be polite, com- plaifant, tender, and rcfpc£tful, tho* not timorous; indead of endeavouring to haden his own happinefs, by the violence of his tranfports, he ought to lie in wait for the moment of frailty.”
Thefe were my reflexions, and this the conduX I pvopofed to obferve with Aurora ; reprefenting to myfclf that in a little time, I fhould have the pleafurc of feeing myfclf at her feet, and of faying a thoufand paffionatc thingsto that amiable objc£l. I even rccol- IcXcd all the paffages of our theatrical pieces which might be of fervice to me, and do me honour during our interview; and by a feafonable application of tkefe, I hoped, after the example of fome players
whom