it. Whether art or nature, it is sublime. I told her I should write
and tell you so, and that I parted from her, confiding, adoring!--She is
beyond me, that's certain. Do go and see her, and desire her not to
give my present address to a single soul, and learn if the lodging is
let, and to whom. My letter to her is as follows. If she shews the
least remorse at it, I'll be hanged, though it might move a stone, I
modestly think. (See before, Part I. first letter.)

N.B.--I have begun a book of our conversations (I mean mine and the
statue's) which I call LIBER AMORIS. I was detained at Stamford and
found myself dull, and could hit upon no other way of employing my time
so agreeably.



LETTER II





Dear P----, Here, without loss of time, in order that I may have your
opinion upon it, is little Yes and No's answer to my last.


"Sir, I should not have disregarded your injunction not to send you any
more letters that might come to you, had I not promised the Gentleman
who left the enclosed to forward it the earliest opportunity, as he said
it was of consequence. Mr. P---- called the day after you left town.
My mother and myself are much obliged by your kind offer of tickets to