I know not who this Naaman is, said the general, nor what is meant by your allusion, chevalier: but by your looks I should imagine, that you mean me contempt.

My looks, my lord, generally indicate my heart. You may make light of my intention; and so will I of the trouble I have been at, if your lordship make not light of me. But were I not, my lord, in my own lodgings, I would tell you, that you seem not to know, in my case, what graciousne&s is. Yet I

* 2 King* . ask not for favour from you, but as much for your own sake, as mine.

Dear Grandison! said the bishop My lord! to his brother Did you not promise me Why did you mention Olivia to the chevalier?

Does that disturb you, Sir? said the general to me. I cannot make light of a man of your consequence; especially with ladies, Sir in a scornful manner.

The general, you see, my lord, said I, turning to the bishop, has an insuperable ill-will to me. I found, when I attended him at Naples, that he had harboured surmises that were as injurious to his sister, as to me. I was in hopes that I had obviated them; but a rooted malevolence will recur. How-ever, satisfied as I am with my own innocence, he shall, for many safces, find it very difficult to provoke me.

For my own sake, among the rest, chevalier? with an air of drollery.

You are at liberty, returned I, to make your own constructions. Allow me, my lords, to attend you to Signor Jeronymo.

Not till you are cordial friends, said the bishop Brother, give me your hand, offering to take it Chevalier, yours

Dispose of mine as you please, my lord, said I, holding it out.

He took it, and the general’s at the same time, and would have joined them.

Come, my lord, said I, to the general, and snatched his reluctant hand, accept of a friendly offer, from a heart as friendly. Let me honour you, from my ovm fcnoxvledge, for those great qua-lities which the world gives you. I demand your favour, from a consciousness that 1 deserve it; and that I could not, were I to submit to be treated with indignity by any man. 1 should be sorry to look little in your eyes; but I will not in my own.

Who can bear the superiority this man assumes, brother?

You oblige me, my lord, to assert myself. The chevalier speaks nobly, my lord. His cha-racter is well known. Let me lead you both friends to our Jeronymo. But say, brother Say, chevalier, that you are so.

I cannot bear, said the general, that the Chevalier Grandison should imagine himself of so much consequence to my sister, as some of you seem to think him.