You u///. Sir! That is very good of you! Poor man! What a hand, as he sajs, has he made of it!

A hand, indeed! repeated Sir Charles.

And will you be his executor. Sir? You will, I hope. ‘ I will do any-thing that my dear iNIiss Byron

;nishes me to do; any-thing that may comfort the poor man, it’ indeed he has not a person in whom he ought to confide, whether he is voilling to do so or not. My endeavour shall be, to reconcile him to his relations: perhaps he hates them because they are likely to be his heirs: I have known men capable of such narrowness.

When we came to the place where the unhappy man mentions my having been likely to be his, in two hours time, a chilness came over my heart; I shuddered. Ah, Sir! said I, how grateful ought I to be to mil deliverer!

Ever-amiable goodness! resumed he, How have I been, how am I, how shall I be, rewarded? With tender awe he kissed my cheek Forgive me, angel of a woman! A man can shew his love but as a man. Your heart is the heart I wish it to be! Love, hu-manity, graciousness, benevolence, forgivingness, all the amiable qualities which can adorn the female mind, are in perfection, yours! Be your sister-excellence ha})py! God grant it! and I shall be the happiest man in the world. You, madam, who can pity your oppressor when in misery, can allow of my grateful remembrance of that admirable woman.

Your tender remembrance of Lady Clementina, Sir, will ever be grateful to me. (iod Almighty make her happy! for your sake! for the sake of your dear Jeronymo; and for mine!

There spoke .Aliss Byron, and Clementina, both in one! Surely you two are informed by one mind! What is distance of countries! What obstacles can there be, to dissever souls so paired?

But. Sir? Mu.’^t Clementina be compcllcdto mar-ry? Mn\i the woman who has loved Sir Charles Grandison; who still avows her love, and only prefers her God to him; be obliged to give her hand to another man?

Would to Heaven that her friends, tender, indul-gent, as they have always been to her, would not drive too fast! But how can I, of all men, remon-strate to them in this case, when they think nothing is wanting to obtain her compliance, but the know-ledge that she never can be mine?

Sir! you shall still call her yours, if the dear lady changes her resolution, and ivishes to be so Ought you not?

And could Miss Byron

She could, she would, interrupted I Yet dear, very dear, I am not ashamed to own it, would now the resignation cost me!

Exalted loveliness!

I never, but by such a trial, can be as great as Clementina! Then could /, as she does, take comfort in the brevity of ht^man life. Never, never, would I be the wife of any other man. And shall the nobler Clementina, be compelled ?