XXXV.

"Why?--Why?--Besides, Fred really was _attached_; 'T was not her fortune--he has enough without; The time will come she'll wish that she had snatched So good an opportunity, no doubt:-- But the old Marchioness some plan had hatched, As I'll tell Aurea at to-morrow's rout: And after all poor Frederick may do better-- Pray did you see her answer to his letter?"