Yet he tardily acquired the experience necessary to guard him against future imposition.
"I shall weary you," continued he, "by my egotism; and did not powerful emotions draw me to you,"-- his eyes glistened as he spoke, and a trembling seemed to run through his manly frame,--"I would not waste these precious moments in talking of myself.
"My father and mother were people of fashion; married by their parents.
He was fond of the turf, she of the card-table.

I, and two or three other children since dead, were kept at home till we became intolerable.
My father and mother had a visible dislike to each other, continually displayed; the servants were of the depraved kind usually found in the houses of people of fortune.

My brothers and parents all dying, I was left to the care of guardians; and sent to Eton.

I never knew the sweets of domestic affection, but I felt the want of indulgence and frivolous respect at school.

I will not disgust you with a recital of the vices of my youth, which can scarcely be comprehended by female delicacy.