"'Selim,' replied she seriously, 'I have no secret for you, and you shall have none for me, if you please. How far are you advanced?'----'Almost to the end of the novel'----'And with whom?' said she earnestly----'You know Marteza'--'Yes, sure; she is a very amiable woman.' 'Well then, after having in vain tried all means to please you, I turned to that side. I was wished for above half a year; two interviews levell'd the outworks, a third will compleat my happiness; and this very night Marteza expects me to supper. Her conversation is amusing, light, and a little caustic; but, that excepted, she is the best creature in the world. A person transacts his little affairs better with those giggling women, than with those lofty dames, who.'----'But, my Lord,' interrupted Cydalisa with a down-cast look, 'in complimenting you on your choice, may one observe to you, that Marteza is not new, and that before you, she has reckoned lovers?'----'What is that to me, madam?' replied I. 'If Marteza loves me sincerely, I look on myself as her first. But the hour of my appointment draws near, permit me.'----'One word more, my Lord. Is it really true that Marteza loves you?----'I believe it.'----'And you love her?' added Cydalisa.----'Madam,' answered I, ''tis you that have thrown me into the arms of Marteza: I need say no more to you.'----I was departing, but Cydalisa pull'd me by my Doliman, and turned back in a hurry.----'Does madam want to speak with me? Has she any commands for me?'----'No, Sir, how, are you there still? I thought you were a good way off by this time.'----'Madam, I will double my pace.'----'Selim'----'Cydalisa.'----'Then you are going?'----'Yes, madam.'----'Ah! Selim, to whom do you sacrifice me? Was not Cydalisa's esteem of greater value than the favors of a Marteza?'----'Without doubt, madam,' replied I, 'if I had nothing more than esteem for you. But I loved you.'----'It is not so,' cried she with transport: 'if you had loved me, you would have distinguished my real sentiments; you would have been prepossessed with them, you would have flattered yourself, that your perseverance would in time get the better of my pride: but you grew tired, you have abandoned me, and perhaps in the very moment'----At this word Cydalisa stopt short, a sigh slipt from her, and her eyes were wet.--'Speak, madam,' said I, 'make an end. If my tenderness lasted still, notwithstanding your rigorous treatment, could you.'----'I can do nothing, you do no longer love me, and Marteza waits for you.'----'If Marteza was indifferent to me; if Cydalisa was dearer to me than ever, what would you do?'--'It would be folly to explain myself on suppositions.'----'Cydalisa, I beseech you to answer me, as if I had supposed nothing. If Cydalisa was constantly the most lovely of her sex in my eyes; and if I never had the least design on Marteza; once again what would you do?'----'What I have always done, ingrateful man,' answered at length Cydalisa: 'I would love you.'--'And