And in his still high appreciation of himself, notwithstanding his deep mortification, he thought that the lively Dutch girl was endeavoring to catch him for her lover.

In this, however, he soon found himself mistaken.
She told him that there was to be a reaping frolic in their neighborhood in a few days, and that if he would attend it, she would show him one of the prettiest girls upon whom he ever fixed his eyes.
Difficult as he found it to shut out from his mind his lost love, upon whom his thoughts were dwelling by day and by night, he very wisely decided that his best remedy would be found in what Dr.Chalmers calls "the expulsive power of a new affection;" that is, that he would try and fall in love with some other girl as soon as possible.

His own language, in describing his feelings at that time, is certainly very different from that which the philosopher or the modern novelist would have used, but it is quite characteristic of the man.

The Dutch maiden assured him that the girl who had deceived him was not to be compared in beauty with the one she would show to him.

He writes: "I didn't believe a word of all this, for I had thought that such a piece of flesh and blood as she had never been manufactured, and never would again.