...enough to devote myself to be for ever miserable, for the pleasure of a day or two's happiness. I cannot resolve upon it. You must think otherwise of me, or not at all." Montagu apparently did not know what he wanted, but he was distressed when he heard of Lady Mary's...

...letter, dramatically terse in style. 'You are Brother to a Woman I tenderly lov'd ... I don't injoin you to burn this Letter. I know you will. Tis the first I ever writ to one of your sex and shall be the last . . . My resolutions are seldom made, and never broken.'...