's
lodgings in Bury Street, and who flattered him, and made love to him in
such an outrageous manner--Vanessa was thrown over.

Swift did not keep Stella's letters to him in reply to those he wrote to
her.(51) He kept Bolingbroke's, and Pope's, and Harley's, and
Peterborough's: but Stella, "very carefully," the _Lives_ say, kept
Swift's. Of course: that is the way of the world: and so we cannot tell
what her style was, or of what sort were the little letters which the
doctor placed there at night, and bade to appear from under his pillow of
a morning. But in Letter IV of that famous collection he describes his
lodging in Bury Street, where he has the first floor, a dining-room and
bedchamber, at eight shillings a week; and in Letter VI he says "he has
visited a lady just come to town", whose name somehow is not mentioned;
and in Letter VIII he enters a query of Stella's--"What do you mean 'that
boards near me, that I dine with now and then?' What the deuce! You know
whom I have dined with every day since I left you, better than I do." Of
course she does. Of course Swift has not the slightest idea of what she
means. But in a few letters more it turns out that the doctor has been to
dine "gravely" with a Mrs. Vanhomrigh: then that he has been to "his
neighbour": then that he has been unwell, and means to dine for the whole
week with his neighbour! Stella was quite right in her previsions. She saw
from the very first hint what was going to happen; and scented Vanessa in
the air.(52) The rival is at the Dean's feet. The pupil and teacher are
reading together, and drinking tea together, and going to prayers
together, and learning Latin together, and conjugating _amo_, _amas_,
_amavi_ together. The "little language" is over for poor Stella. By the
rule of grammar and the course of conjugation, doesn't _amavi_ come after
_amo_ and _amas_?

The loves of Cadenus and Vanessa(53) you may peruse in Cadenus's own poem
on the subject, and in poor Vanessa's vehement expostulatory verses and
letters to him; she adores him, implores him, admires him, thinks him
something godlike, and only prays to be admitted to lie at his feet.(54)
As they are bringing him home from church, those divine feet of Dr.
Swift's are found pretty often in Vannessa's parlour. He likes to be
admired and adored. He finds Miss Vanhomrigh to be a woman of great taste
and spirit, and beauty and wit, and a fortune too. He sees her every day;
he does not tell Stella