Nor can resent that sacrifice in me.”
He reason’d thus, but fear’d, and sought the friend
In his own country, where his doubts must end. 260
They then together to her dwelling came,
And by a servant sent her lover’s name—
modest youth, whom she before had known,
His favourite then, and doubtless then her own.
They in the carriage heard the servants speak
At Ellen’s door—“A maid so heavenly meek,
Who would all pain extinguish! Yet will she