“No.”
“Give me leave then to recommend it to you. After Hume's Essays you
ought to read it. And even for lighter reading, if you were to look at
Mason's 'Elegy on Lady Coventry,' it might be of no disservice to you.”
This was the chief of our conversation, which indeed made an impression
upon me I shall not easily get rid of. A young and agreeable infidel
is even a shocking sight, and with her romantic, flighty, and unguarded
turn of mind, what could happen to her that could give surprise?