"It would be strange if I, who profess myself so great an admirer of beauty, did otherwise.

I am passionately enamoured of you.

If you will accompany me, fair Nizza, you shall change your humble garb for the richest attire that gold can purchase, shall dwell in a magnificent mansion, and have troops of servants at your command.

In short, my whole fortune, together with myself, shall be placed at your disposal." "Do not listen to him, Nizza," cried Leonard Holt, in a faint voice.
"Be assured I will not," she answered.

"Your insulting proposal only heightens the disgust I at first conceived for you," she added to the knight: "I reject it with scorn, and command you to let me pass." "Nay, if you put on these airs, sweetheart," replied Parravicin, insolently, "I must alter my tone likewise.