I go on Thursday to meet Risby, and conduct him to town. It would give us great joy, at our return, to shake you by the hand.--What can avail your staying longer in the midst of doubts, perplexities, racks, tortures, and I know-not-what. Have you any more terms to express the deadly disorder?--If you have keep them to yourself; I want not the confounded list compleat:--no; no, not I; faith.-- I go this evening to see the new play, which is at present a general subject of conversation.--Now, was I a vain fellow--a boaster--would I mention four or six of the prettiest women about town, and swear I was to escort them.--Being a lover of truth, I confess I shall steal alone into an upper box, to fix my attention on the performance of the piece.--Perhaps, after all is over, I may step to the box of some sprightly, chatty girl, such as lady ----,--hear all the scandal of the town, ask her opinion of the play, hand her to her chair, and so home, to spend a snug evening with sir Edward Ganges, who has promised to meet me here at ten. Yours, MOLESWORTH. LETTER XX. Lady MARY SUTTON to Miss WARLEY. _German Spaw_. No, my dear, _Lord Darcey_ is not the man he appears.--What signifies a specious outside, if within there's a narrow heart?--Such must be his, to let a virtuous love sit imprisoned in secret corners, when it delights to dwell in open day. Perhaps, if he knew my intentions, all concealments would be thrown aside, and he glory to declare what at present he meanly darkly hints.--By my consent, you should never give your hand to one who can hold the treasures of the mind in such low estimation. When you mention'd your happy situation, the friendly treatment of Sir James and Lady Powis, I was inclined to think for _many_ reasons, it would be wrong to take you from them;--_now_ I am convinced, the pain _that_ must occasion, or the danger in crossing the sea, is not to be compared to what you might suffer in your _peace_ by remaining where you are.--When people of Lord Darcey's rank weigh long a matter of this nature, it is seldom the scale turns of the right side;--therefore, let not _Hope_, my dear child, flatter you out of your affections. Do not think you rest in security:--tender insinuations from a man such as you describe Lord Darcey, may hurt your quiet. I speak not from experience;--Nature, by cloathing me in her plainest garb, has put all these hopes and fears far from me. I have been ask'd, it is true, often, for my fortune;--at least, I look upon asking for my heart to be the same thing.--Sure, I could never be such a fool to part with the latter, when I well knew it was requested only to be put in possession of the former! _You_ think Jenkings suspects his son has a _too_ tender regard for you;--_you_ think he is uneasy on that account.--Perhaps he is uneasy;--but time will convince you his suspicions, his uneasiness, proceed not from the _cause you imagine_.--He is a good man; you cannot think too well of him.