After all, Lady L. we women, dressed out in rib-bands, and gaudy trappings, and in virgin-white, on our wedding-days, seem but like milk-white heifers led to sacrifice. We ought to be indulged, if we arc uot shameless things, and very wron^ indeed, in oui choice of the man we can love.

When wc returned to the company, Mr. Selby broke from his partner, Miss Barclay, to whisk into the figure the bride.

Sir Charles joined the deserted lady, who seemed much better pleased with her new partner than with her c-ld one.

Lord W. who was sitting down, took Mrs. Selby ‘s hand, and led her into the dance.

I drew Miss Nedham to the sideboard, and gave her her cue: she gave theirs to the three other bride-maid*:.

About eleven, Mrs. Selby, unobserved, withdrew with the bride. The bride-maids, one by one to be the less observed, waited on her to her chamber; saluted her, and returned to company.

The dear creature wanted presence of miiul. She fell into my reflection above. O my dear Lady G.! said she, was I not ri^ht when I declared, that 1 never would marry, were it not to the man 1 loved above all the men in the world?

She complimented me twenty times, with being very good. She praved for me: but her prayers were meant for herself.

Vou remeuiber, that she told me, on my appro* hensiveness on the like occasion, that fear made m# loving to her. On her blessing me. Ah, Harriet said I, you now find, that apprehension will make one pious, as weil as loving.

My sister, my friend, my own, my Caroline’s, my brother’s, Wcf/r Lady Grandison! said I, when I Ivift her, near undressed, God bless you! And God be praised, that I can call you by these tender names! My brother is the happiest of men; you of women. May we never love each other less than we do now! Look forward to the serene happiness of your future lot. If you are the joy of our brother, you must be our joy, and the jewel of our family.

She answered me only by a fervent embrace, her eyes lifted up, surcharged, as I may say, viith tears of joy, i s in thankfulness.

I then rushed down-stairs, and into the company. jNIy brother instantly addrcFsed me My Har-riet, whii>pered he, “with iuipaticncej returns not this night.

You will see Mrs. Selby, I presume, bj’-and-by, returned J,

Me took his seat by old Mrs. Selby, and fell into talk with her, to avoid joining in the dances. Mrs. Selby, at last, came in. Her eyes shewed the ten-der leave she had taken of lier Harriet.

My brother approached her. She went out: he followed her.

]n a (juartcr of an hour she returned.

V.‘e saw my brother no more that night.

“\Ve continued our dancings till betv.een three and four.