No harm, you say! I was afraid, by your concern for her But can ^ou love her, as well as ever? If you can, Emily must stili be good. I can: I do.

What then, dear madam, of /;oor Emily? Why poor Emily?

I v.lll tell you. The dear girl makes it her re-quest, that I will procure of you one favour for her; Her heart is set upon it. if Emily continue good, she shall only signify her wis’i, and I will coaiply. If I am not a father to her, is she not fatherless?

Allow me, Sir, to call you kind! good! humane! \\ hat I want of those qualities. Miss Byron will teach me, by her example But what would my E)nily? v’^he would live with her guardian, Sir. With .‘lie, madam? And with, /on, madam? Tell me, own to me, madam, And with you? That is her wish,

And does my beloved Miss Byron think it a ricr/it wish to be granted? Will .she be the instructing friend, the exemplary sister, now in that time of the dear gin’s life, when the eye, rather than the judgment, is Usually the director of a young woman’s affections?

I love the sweet innocent: I could wish her to be always with me.

Obliging goodness! Then is one of my cares over. A young woman from fourteen to twenty, is often a troublesome charge upon a friendly heart. I could not have asked this favour of you. You rejoice me by mentioning it. Shall I write a letter, in your name, to Emily?

There, Sir, are pen, ink, and paper.

In your name, madam?

I bowed assent; mistrusting nothing.

He wrote; and, doubling down, shewed me only these words ‘ My dear Miss Jcrvois, I have ob-tained for you the desired favour. Will you not continue to be as good as you have hitherto been? That is all which is required of my Emily, by her ever-aftectionate

I instantly wrote, * Harriet Byron.’ But, Sir, what have you doubled down?

Charming confidence! What must he be, who could attempt to abuse it? Read, madam, what you have signed.

I did. How my heart throbbed. And could Sir Charles Grandison, said I, thus intend to deceive? Could Sir Charles Grandison be such a plotter? Thank God you are not a bad man.

After the words, I have obtained for you the desired favour, followed these;

‘ You must be very good. You must resolve to give me nothing but joy; joy equal to the love I have for you, and to the sacrifice I have made to oblige you. Go down, my love, as soon as you can, to Grandifon-hall: I shall then have one of the sis-ters of my heart there to receive me. If you are there in less than a fortnight, I will endeavour to be with you in a fortnight after. I sacrifice, at least, another fortnight’s punctilio to oblige you. And will you not continue to be as good as you have hitherto been? That is all which is required of ray Emily, by, &c.