, with the most artful Complaisance in the World, by several remote Hints, finds the means to make her say or propose almost whatever he has a mind to, which he always receives as her own Discovery, and gives her all the Reputation of it.
Erastus
has a perfect Taste in Painting, and carried
Lætitia
with him the other day to see a Collection of Pictures. I sometimes visit this happy Couple. As we were last Week walking in the long Gallery before Dinner,
I have lately laid out some Mony in Paintings
, says
Erastus; I bought that
Venus
and