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G I L B L A 'S. 209
After this converfation, Felicia and I parted1,
■very well fatisfied with one another. I prepared
anew to ogle Don George’s daughter, whom I
treated with a ferenade, in which the verfes you
have heard were fung by a fine voice, which I had
provided for the purpofe. After the concert, the
maid, in order to found her miftrefs, afked how
fhe had been entertain’d ? “ The voice (faid
Donna Helena) gave me pleafure.” “ And were
not the words which were fung very moving ?”
replied the maid. “ I paid no attention to them,
(faid the lady) I lifiened to the tune only. I took
no notice of the verfes, neither do I defire to
know who gave the ferenade.” “ If that be the
cafe, (cried the waiting-woman) poor Don Gallon
de Cogollos is far out of his reckoning, and not
very wife in fpending his time in looking at our
lattices.” “ Perhaps.it may not be he, (faid the
miftrefs, coldly) but feme other cavalier, who
has declared his pafiion for me by this concert.”
“ Pardon me, madam (replied Felicia) it is no
other but Don Gallon ; by this token, that he
accofted me this morning in the ftreet, and begg’d
me to tell you, that he adores you, in fpite of the
rigour with which you repay his love 5 and that,
in Ihort, he Ihould think himfelf the happieft of
mankind, if you would allow him to manifeft his
pafiion in the ufual courfe of gallantry. This
difcourfe (added Ihe) fufficiently proves that I am
not miftaken.”
Don George’s daughter changed countenance
all of a fudden, and darting a fevcre look at her
maid ; “ You might have difpenfed (faid Ihe)
with repeating that impertinent converfation to
me. Let me have no fuch reports for the future,
if you pleafe j and if that rafh youth fhall have