ner.-'Let me again, Miss Byron, present Dr. Bartlett to you, as a man that is an honour to his cloth; and that is the same thing as if I said to human nature;'-[The good man bowed in silence.] and Miss Byron to you, my good doctor,' (taking my hand) as a lady most worthy your distinguished regard.'

'You do me too much honour, sir,' said I.-' I shall hope, good Dr. Bartlett, by your instructions, to be enabled to deserve such a recommendation.'

'My dear Harriet!' said the countess, snatching my other hand, you are a good girl; and that is more to your honour than beauty.'

'Be quiet, Lady L.' said Miss Grandison.

Mr. Grandison came up- What? is there not another hand for me?'

I was vexed at his interruption. It prevented Dr. Bartlett from saying something that his lips were opening to speak with a smile of benignity.

How the world,' said Sir Charles, smiling, 'will push itself in!-Heart, not hand, my dear Mr. Grandison, was the subject.'

"Whenever you, Sir Charles, and the doctor, and these ladies, are got together, I know I must be unseasonable: but if you exclude me such company, how shall I ever be what you and the doctor would have me to be?'

Lord L. and Lord G. were coming up to us:'See your attraction, Miss Byron,' said the coun tess.

'But,' joined in Miss Grandison, we will not leave our little Jervois by herself, expecting and longing! Our cousins Reeves-only that when they are together, they cannot want companyshould not be thus left. Is there more than one heart among us?-This man's excepted,' humor

ously pushing Mr. Grandison as if from the company- Let us be orderly, and take our seats.' "How cruel is this!' said Mr. Grandison, appealing to Sir Charles.

'Indeed I think it is a little cruel, Charlotte.' 'Not so: let him be good then.-Till when, may all our sex say, to such men as my cousin has been-"Thus let it be done by the man, whom, if he were good, good persons would delight to honour."

'Shame, if not principle,' said Lord L. smiling, 'would effect the cure, if all ladies were to act thus.-Don't you think so, cousin Everard?"

Well, well,' said Mr. Grandison, I will be good as fast as I can:-but, doctor, what say you? "Rome was not built in a day."

'I have great hopes of Mr. Grandison,' said the doctor. But, ladies, you must not, as Mr. Grandison observed, exclude from the benefit of your conversation, the man whom you wish to be good.'

'What! not till he is good?" said Miss Grandison. 'Did I not say, we should delight to honour him when he was?'

'But, what, Sir Charles? (come, I had rather take my cue from you than any body; what) are the signs which I am to give to be allowed-'

'Only these, my cousin-When you can be serious on serious subjects; yet so cheerful in your seriousness, as if it sat easy upon you; when you can, at times, prefer the company and conversation of Dr. Bartlett, who is not a solemn or severe man, to any other; and, in general, had rather stand well in his opinion, than in that of the gayest man or woman in the world.'

'Provided your's, Sir Charles, may be added to the doctor's.'

'Command me, Mr. Grandison, whenever you

two are together. We will not oppress you with our subjects. Our conversation shall be that of men, of cheerful men. You shall lead them and change them at pleasure. The first moment (and I will watch for it) that I shall imagine you to be tired or uneasy, I will break off the conversation; and you shall leave us, and pursue your own diversions without a question.'

'You were always indulgent to me, Sir Charles,' said Mr. Grandison; and I have retired, and blushed to myself sometimes, for wanting your indulgence.

Tea was preparing. Sir Charles took his own seat next Lord L. whom he set in to talk of Scotland. He enjoyed the account my lord gave of the pleasure which the countess, on that her first journey into those parts, gave to all his family and friends; as Lady L. on her part, acknowledged she had a grateful sense of their goodness to her.

'I rejoice,' said Sir Charles, that the sea divides us not from such worthy people, as you, my lord, have given us a relation to. Next visit you make, (Charlotte, I hope, will accompany me) intend to make one in your train, as I have told your lordship before.'

'You will add to our pleasure, Sir Charles. All my relations are prepared to do you honour.?

'But, my lord, did not the ladies think a little hardly of your lordship's engagement; that a man of your merit should go from Scotland for a wife? I do assure you, my lord, that in all the countries I have been in, I never saw finer women than I have seen in Scotland; and, in very few nations, though six times as large, greater numbers of them.'

I was to be the happiest of men, Sir Charles, in a Grandison-I thank you,' bowing.

'It is one of my felicities, my lord, that my sister calls herself yours.'

Lady L. whispering me, as I sat between her and Miss Grandison. The two worthiest hearts in the world, Miss Byron! my Lord L 's, and my brother's!'

'With joy I congratulate your ladyship on both,' re-whispered I. May God long continue to you two such blessings!'

I thought of the vile Sir Hargrave at the time. 'I can tell you how,' said Mr. Grandison, to repay that nation- You, Sir Charles, shall go down, and bring up with you a Scottish lady.' I was vexed with myself for starting. I could not help it.

Don't you think, Lucy, that Sir Charles made a very fine compliment to the Scottish ladies?—I own that I have heard the women of our northern counties praised also. But are there not, think you, as pretty women in England?

'My sister Harriet,' applied Sir Charles to me, 'you need not, I hope, be told, that I am a great admirer of fine women.'

I had like to have bowed-I should not have been able to recover myself, had I so seemed to apply his compliment.

I the less wonder that you are, Sir Charles, because, in the word fine, you include mind as well as person.'

"That's my good girl!' said Miss Grandison, as she poured out the tea: 'and so he does.'

'My dear Charlotte,' whispered I, 'pray say something encouraging to Lord G. He is pleased with every body: but nobody says any thing to him; and he, I see, both loves and fears you.'

"Hush, child!' whispered she again. The man's best when he is silent. If it be his day to love, it is

his day to fear. What a deuce! shall a woman's time be never?"

"That's good news for my lord: shall I hint to him, that his time will come?'

'Do, if you dare. I want you to provoke me.' She spoke aloud.

'I have done,' said I.

'My lord! what do you think Miss Byron says?" 'For heaven's sake, dear Miss Grandison!' 'Nay, I will speak it.'

Pray, madam, let me know,' said my lord. 'You will know Miss Grandison, in time,' said Sir Charles. I trust her not with any of my secrets, Miss Byron.'

'The more ungenerous you, Sir Charles; for you get out of me all mine. I complained of you, sir, to Miss Byron, for your reserves at Colnebrook.'

Be so good, madam,' said my lord

Nay, nothing but the Mountain and the Mouse. Miss Byron only wanted to see your collection of insects.'

Miss Byron will do me great honour.'

'If Charlotte won't attend you, madam,' said the countess, to my Lord G.'s, I will.'

"Have I not brought you off, Harriet?' whispered Miss Grandison. Trust me another time.-She will let you know the day before, my lord.'

'Miss Grandison, my lord,' said I, 'loves to alarm. But I will, with pleasure, wait on her, and on the countess, whenever they please.'

You will see many things worth your notice, madam, in Lord G.'s collection,' said Sir Charles to me. 'But Charlotte thinks nothing less than men and women worthy of hers; her parrot and squirrel, the one for its prattle, the other for its vivacity, excepted.'