the fishermen, or other coasters, for procuring his escape. Reuben frankly declared that his purse was s almost empty, and that the want of such an indispensable article as money had been his principal motive for visiting that neighbourhood, with the intention of obtaining a supply from his uncle. "I anticipated that this might be the case," said Helen, placing a purse of gold in his hand and as I am not deterred by any false delicacy from offering, you will not, I am sure, feel any false shame in receiving this little loan, especially as I shall reclaim it from Mr. Goldingham the moment I receive tidings of your safety. Till that happy period arrives it may be as well to leave him in total ignorance of your proceedings, for as my sister and myself, unintentionally both on your part and on ours, have become compromised as the abettors of your concealment and flight, let us take the last responsibility as well as the first; if we are to be implicated, let us have the consolation of knowing, that although we may have committed ourselves, we have at least been the means of exonerating others. All I ask of

you in return, is, that you will give me, by some safe channel, the quickest intelligence of your arrival in a place of safety, that I may redeem my pledge to Lady Crockatt and Mrs. Chatsworth" Another blush deeply tinged her fea tures as she thus recalled the base imputations that they had dared to cast upon her honour, but it quickly passed away; and having stated every probable contingeney that might assail him in his flight, and suggested such precautions as seemed most likely to obviate danger, or to render its consequences less perilous, she informed him that he might safely remain where he was till dusk, when she trusted he would withdraw to his old hiding-place, and under favour of the darkness quit Harpsden Hall altogether, concluding by a declaration that she should most earnestly pray for his deliverance from the hands of his enemies.

(Reuben would have again poured out the fervour of his soul in a burst of heartfelt ac knowledgments, but Helen putting her forefinger to her lips, reminded him with a smile, that the moments were too precious for com

pliments, which she would defer receiving till they could be tendered without rendangering their common safety,So saying she'r bowed affably to Reuben, again wished him success in his flight, and taking her sister's arm, was about to accompany her from the apartment, when Adeline, who had no notion of parting so tamely from her lover, turned towards him, and extending her arms, exclaimed, “Oh yes, yes, yes! you will come back to us of course when the amnesty is published. We are not very far, you know, from Goldingham Place. O ciel! seroit-il possible? quelle idéeľ1 charmante! Farewell! farewell! I may bid you adieu in the words of Indamora, the captive

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When Reuben was again left in his solitary closet, all his past life seemed utterly to fade away from his recollection; the part he had taken in the rebellion, and the jeopardy that still so imminently threatened him, were totally driven from his mind; he had no head, no heart, but for the beautiful, the generous, the magnanimous Helen. From the nobleness of her conduct previously to their interview, he was prepared for elevation of soul and dignity of sentiment; but that she should unite all the milder and more humble virtues to this majesty of feeling, that she should be so sagacious, discreet, and provident, so delicate in her generous forethought, so considerate for the safety of others, so willing to sacrifice her own; that she should be at once a heroine, and at the same time the most modest, feminine, and unassuming of her sex; that her thoughts, high and exalted as they were, should be set to such heart-winning music by the sweetness of her voice, and that both should be ennobled by a face and form of surpassing intelligence and loveliness, constituted altogether such a combination of

attractions as excited his wonder, not less su premely than his delight, and left him for some time completely absorbed and enraptured in the recollection of her unparalleled endowments. Little as they required it, they received the full benefit of contrast when he compared them with Adeline's. ́· With the beauty of the latter, indeed, as well as with her frank, not to say familiar deportment, he had been struck in their first interview; but in the midst of all her apparent interest in his fate, there appeared such real indifference, or at least such an incapacity to suggest any available resource for his extrication, that he had not been long in discovering her to be a compound of levity and affectation, flightiness and frivolity, who either wanted the delicacy to feel, or the sense to apprehend, the impropriety of their clandestine meetings, and who was consequently little cal culated to inspire any other than an evanescent admiration. These considerations only served to elevate Helen, for whom, in short, he already felt that empassioned yearning of the heart;