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<- Previous | First | Next -> 'Well, then,' said he, 'I am in earnest; I'll take your advice; but shall I ask you one question seriously beforehand?' 'Any question,' said I, 'but that you did before.' 'No, that answer will not do,' said he, 'for, in short, that is the question I shall ask.' 'You may ask what questions you please, but you have my answer to that already,' said I. 'Besides, sir,' said I, 'can you think so ill of me as that I would give any answer to such a question beforehand? Can any woman alive believe you in earnest, or think you design anything but to banter her?' 'Well, well,' says he, 'I do not banter you, I am in earnest; consider of it.' 'But, sir,' says I, a little gravely, 'I came to you about my own business; I beg of you to let me know, what you will advise me to do?' 'I will be prepared,' says he, 'against you come again.' 'Nay,' says I, 'you have forbid my coming any more.' 'Why so?' said he, and looked a little surprised. 'Because,' said I, 'you can't expect I should visit you on the account you talk of.' 'Well,' says he, 'you shall promise me to come again, however, and I will not say any more of it till I have gotten the divorce, but I desire you will prepare to be better conditioned when that's done, for you shall be the woman, or I will not be divorced at all; why, I owe it to your unlooked-for kindness, if it were to nothing else, but I have other reasons too.' He could not have said anything in the world that pleased me better; however, I knew that the way to secure him was to stand off while the thing was so remote, as it appeared to be, and that it was time enough to accept of it when he was able to perform it; so I said very respectfully to him, it was time enough to consider of these things when he was in a condition to talk of them; in the meantime, I told him, I was going a great way from him, and he would find objects enough to |
