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with the ill-natured purpose of engaging our esteem, of giving us a relish for those pleasures arising from entertaining and improving conversation, and then suddenly leave us to regret and disappointment? In truth, my good friends, this is not well done of you;—and I expect you will give up your intention and your boots together, unless you will escort the ladies in an airing this morning."—"I hope, Sir," replied Ferdinand, with a look of earnestness, and in a tone of dejection; "I hope, Sir, you will believe there needs no persuasion to induce us to comply with your kind wishes, which so well accords with our own inclinations; but there are particular circumstances—motives of honour and delicacy—feelings which impel us to give up the happiness we have found in this society, and to follow that plan we have chalked out for ourselves, from whence we expect to derive neither profit nor pleasure, but, in the tumult of a camp, to lose the remembrance of ourselves."