Your brother desired leave to attend me in my dressing-room But how can I attempt to describe his air, his manner, or repeat the thousand agreeable things he said? Ingensibly he fell into talking of future schemes, in a way that punctilio itself could not be displeased with.

He had been telling me, that our dear Mr. Deane, having been affected by his last indisposition, had desired my uncle, my aunt, and him, to permit him to lay beibre them the state of his affairs, and the kind things he intended to do by his own relations; who, however, were all in happy circumstances. After which, he insisted upon Sir Charles’s being his sole xecutor, which he scrupled; desiring that some other person should be joined with him in the trust; but ^.Ir. Deane being very earnest on this head, Sir Charles said, I hope I know my own heart: my dear Mr. Deane, you must do as you please.

After some other discourse, I suppose, said I, the good man will not part with us till tiie beginning of next v.xek.

Whenever you leave him, answered he, it will be to his regret; it may tlierefore as well be soon: but I am sorry, methinks, that he, who has qualities which endear him to every one, should be so much alone as he is here. I have a great desire, when I can be so happy as to find myself a settled man, to draw into my neighbourhood friends who will dignity it. Mr. Deane will, I hope, be often our visiter at the hall. The love he bears to his d^ar god-daughter will be his inducement; and the air and soil being more dry and vv’holesome than this so near the fens, may be a means to prolong Ills valuable life.

Dr. Bartlett, continued he, has already carried into execution some schemes whicii relate to my indigent neighbours, anrl the lower class of my tenants. How does that excellent man revere Miss Byron!

Srit CIIARLKS GRANDISON.!.)<)

My Reauclianip, witli our two sisters and tlit’ir lords, will be often with us. Your worthy cousin Reeves’s, Lord W, and his deserving lady, will also be our visiters, and we theirs, in turn. The Mans-field family are already within a few miles of me: and our Northamptonshire friends! Visiters and visited What happiness do I propose to myself, and the beloved of my heart And if (as you have ge-nerously wished) the dear Clementina may be happy, at least not unhappy, and her brother Jeronymo recover; what, in this world, can be wanting to. crown our felicity?

Tears of jo}’ strayed down my cheek, unpcrceived by me, till they iell upon his hand, as it had mine in it. He kissed them away. I was abashed. If my dear Miss Isyron permit me to go on, I have her ad-vice to ask. I bowed my assent. IMy heart throbbed with painful joy: I couid not sneak.