Some absurd suspicion that you were in love with Lucy Dashwood piqued her vanity, and the anxiety to recover a lapsing allegiance led her to suppose herself attached to you, and made her treat all my advances with the most frigid indifference or wayward caprice; the more provoking," continued he, with a kind of bitterness in his tone, "as her father was disposed to take the thing favorably; and, if I must say it, I felt devilish spooney about her myself.
"It was only two days before I left, that in a conversation with Don Emanuel, he consented to receive my addresses to his daughter on my becoming lieutenant-colonel.

I hastened back with delight to bring her the intelligence, and found her with a lock of hair on the book before her, over which she was weeping.

Confound me, if it was not yours! I don't know what I said, nor what she replied; but when we parted, it was with a perfect understanding we were never to meet again.

Strange girl! She came that evening, put her arm within mine as I was walking alone in the garden, and half in jest, half in earnest, talked me out of all my suspicions, and left me fifty times more in love with her than ever.

Egad! I thought I used to know something about women, but here is a chapter I've yet to read.
Come, now, Charley, be frank with me; tell me all you know." "My poor Fred, if you were not head and ears in love, you would see as plainly as I do that your affairs prosper.