5/27 This is saying very plainly--'Pray, Miss Smith, give me leave to pay my addresses to you. Approve my charade and my intentions in the same glance.' May its approval beam in that soft eye! Harriet exactly. Soft is the very word for her eye--of all epithets, the justest that could be given. A man must be very much in love, indeed, to describe her so. Ah! Mr.Knightley, I wish you had the benefit of this; I think this would convince you. |