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and taking Arpalisa by the hand, You quite melt me, said I; who can be insensible to so many charms, and so much love?—But how your hand shakes!

Yes, said she, I do that on purpose to make you believe I have little convulsive motions.

But it must be very fatiguing.

Not in the least; habit has made me so expert.—But you shall presently see something more: I have not played half my tricks yet: before we have done you shall see me faint.

Pray, tell me what is become of Telira?

O, we have quarrelled.

What! already?

Yes; and I mean to persuade you, that Telira is in part the cause of the situation in which you now see me.

Why, what has passed between you?

Of you never heard such insolence; she told me I was deceitful, vain, envious, insensible; that my pride was unbounded, my ambition insatiable. I replied, I had never really loved her that it was all affectation, and

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