Such as it was however, it denoted a genuine hilarity of heart, imparted an inconceivable brilliancy to his company and conversation, and rendered him the perpetual delight of the diversified circles he then willingly frequented.

You see nothing of him, my dear Williams, but the ruin of that Falkland who was courted by sages, and adored by the fair.

His youth, distinguished in its outset by the most unusual promise, is tarnished.

His sensibility is shrunk up and withered by events the most disgustful to his feelings.

His mind was fraught with all the rhapsodies of visionary honour; and, in his sense, nothing but the grosser part, the mere shell of Falkland, was capable of surviving the wound that his pride has sustained." These reflections of my friend Collins strongly tended to inflame my curiosity, and I requested him to enter into a more copious explanation.
With this request he readily complied; as conceiving that whatever delicacy it became him to exercise in ordinary cases, it would be out of place in my situation; and thinking it not improbable that Mr.Falkland, but for the disturbance and inflammation of his mind, would be disposed to a similar communication.