COLONEL JACK (Illustrated) by Daniel Defoe

Author:Daniel Defoe [Defoe, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9788075832016
Publisher: Musaicum Books
Published: 2017-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

It is a Subject too surfeiting to entertain People with the Beauty of a Person they will never see; let it suffice to tell them she was the most beautiful Creature of her Sex, that I ever saw before, or since; and it cannot be wondered if I was charm’d with her, the very first Moment I see her Face: Her behaviour was likewise a Beauty in itself, and was so extraordinary, that I cannot say I can describe it.

The next day she was much more free than she was that first Night, and I had so much Conversation as to enter into particulars of things on both side, salso she gave me leave to come and see her House, which however, I did not do under a fortnight, or thereabouts, because I did not know how far she would dispense with the Ceremony, which it was necessary to keep up at the beginning of her Mourning.

However I came as a Man that had Business with her, relating to the Ship her Husband was dead out of, and the first time I came was admitted; and in short, the first time I came I made Love to her; she receiv’d that Proposal with disdain, I cannot indeed say she treated me with any disrespect; but she said, she abhorr’d the offer, and would hear no more of it.

How I came to make such a Proposal to her, I scarce knew then, tho’ it was very much my Intention from the first.

In the mean time, I enquir’d into her Circumstances, and her Character, and heard nothing but what was very agreeable of them both; and above all, I found she had the Report of the best humoured Lady, and the best bred of all that part of the Town; and now I thought I had found what I had so often wish’d for, to make me happy, and had twice miscarry’d in, and resolv’d not to miss her, if it was possible to obtain her.

It came indeed, a little into my Thoughts, that I was a marry’d Man, and had a second Wife alive, who tho’ she was false to me, and a Whore, yet I was not legally divorc’d from her, and that she was my Wife for all that; but I soon got over that part; for first, as she was a Whore, and the Marquiss had confess’d it to me, I was divorc’d in Law, and I had Power to put her away; but having had the Misfortune of fighting a Duel, and being oblig’d to quit the Country, I could not claim the legal Process, which was my Right, and therefore might conclude my self as much divorc’d, as if it had been actually done, and so that Scruple vanish’d.

I suffer’d now two Months to run, without pressing my Widow any more, only I had kept a strict Watch to find if any one else pretended to her; at the end of two Months I Visited her

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