concealed in the summer-house, and even in the closet of your own painting-room, we, of course, can have no right to object."on I t

"Your Ladyship cannot deny the philan thropy, the love of mankind which Miss Trevanian has evinced," said Mrs. Chatsworth sneeringly "The young gentleman, to be sure, was a rebel, and, of course ought to have been con sidered an enemy, in the house of Lord Treva nian but the Scripture, you know, commands us to love our enemies, and I dare

say SO

devout

a young lady would not fail to obey its injunc

tions."hed

"Especially where the party in question is so remarkably handsome as this Mr. Apsley," added Miss Crawley, with a flippant toss, of the head.

"Faugh! I declare it makes me quite sick," drops, resumed her Ladyship: "Give me my Crawley. Really the whole thing is too ridiculous: I hate hypocrisy worse than selfishness." - ff I assure you that I was hastening to you at the ball, continued Mrs. Chatsworth, when you fainted away on learning Mr. Apsley's ar

rest, to recommend that your stays should be loosened, but you were hurried off so suddenly that I could not overtake you.” zdi (15)

It was with great difficulty that the warmhearted Emily had reined in her indignant impatience during the utterance of these ungenerous and unladylike taunts; she could now endure no more, and was bursting out into an angry rebuke, which would certainly have been conveyed in no very measured terms, had not Helen stopped her by gently putting her hand upon her lips, while she exclaimed, "Hush! Emily, hush! if these ladies forget themselves, let us not imitate their example. Insinuations such as these are more disgraceful to their authors than their object." So saying, she took Emily's arm, and bowing to the censorious trio with an air of distant but polite dignity, quitted the apartment, and returned to Harpsden Hall,

Now that the communication could be made without danger, Adeline, anxious to be the first bearer of the good tidings, hurried to her mother, and with numerous interjections, both in French and English, and as many inquiries

whether it was not a charming adventure, just like a story în a play or a romance, detailed the whole progress of her acquaintance with Res ben, up to the time of his flight from the house"; concluding with the statement that he was the adopted son and undoubted heir of the rich Mr. Goldingham, that he had unequivocally declared himself her suitor, that he was passionately in love with her, and she doubted not would rush forward to make a formal demand of her hand as soon as he should return to England. Much as Lady Trevanian saw to condemn in the silly and hazardous conduct of her volatile daughter, and imminent as had been the perils to which her levity had exposed the whole family, she did not, now that the danger was happily past over, by any means regret the occurrence, al though she felt it her duty to warn her against any such wild and improper projects in future. It comported with her Ladyship's views, that her daughter should marry and live in the

country rather than in London; her knowledge of Adeline's flighty character, and, above all, her indiscreet behaviour in the present affair, ren

and

dered it peculiarly desirable that she should be respectably settled, lest her romantic temperament should hurry her into some objectionable union, and no person appeared more eligible for this purpose than the adopted son and heir of their wealthy neighbour. Relying, therefore, upon her unqualified averments, she resolved to give all due encouragement to his suit, should he present himself at Harpsden Hall as the claimant of her hand.

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