Volume the First: Diplomatic Display Oxford Bodleian Library, MS.Don.e.7.
Sir Charles Grandison scorned to deny herselfwhen at Home, as she looked on thatfashionable method of shutting out dis::agreable Visitors, as little leſs thandownright Bigamy.
In spite of the wine she hadbeen drinking, poor
Alice was uncom::monly out of spirits; she
could thinkof nothing but Charles Adams, she couldtalk of
nothing but him, & in short spokeso openly that Lady
Williams soon dis: per::ceivedcovered the unreturned affection she bore him, whichexcited her Pity & Compaſsion so stronglythat she addreſsed her in the following Manner.
"I perceive but too plainly my dear Miſs"