God bless you, madam! tears in his eyes. God bless you both! Then kissed my offered cheek. He could say no more: T could not speak distinctly.

Mv dear Sir Charles led me, followed by all our rejoicing friends, through a noble dining-room to the drawing-room, called, the lady’s: The whole house, my dear, said he, and every person and thing belonging to it, is yours: but this apartment is more particularly so. Let what is amiss in it, be altered as you would have it.

O Sir! grasping his presenting hand between both mine, was all I could say.,

This room is elegantly furnished. It is hung with a light green velvet, delicately ornamented; the chairs of the same; the frames of them gilt; as is the frame of a noble cabinet in it. My mother’s, my dearest life, whispered he. It will be always fashionable: and you, I know, will value it on her account, Indeed I shall. He presented me with the keys. Here perhaps will you deposit your letters and correspondencies; some of which (the continuation of those I have had the honour to see) you will allow me to peruse. But of choice, remem-ber, madam. For your whole heart must be in the grant of the favours you will confer upon me of this kind.

Dear Sir, said I, leave me power of speech; my will shall be yours, in every-thing. But you will find a strange, strange heart, laid open to you, if you command from nie a sight of the papers, that probably will be reposited here, when all my matters are brought from Northamptonshire.

You shall have all the letters you ever wrote to me, and the venerable circle, said Lucy; a loan, not a gift; if you will shew them to Sir Charles.

Courage, Lucy, not inclination, will be only wanting.

Thank you, Lucy, said he. Thank you, my love, to me. You must make marks against the passages in the letters you shall have the goodness to communicate, which you would not have me read. 1 will give you my honour that I will not pass the bounds you prescribe.

I will snatch another opportunity to proceed. My dear Sir Charles indulges me. I have told him, that if he novv-and-then misses me, he must conclude that I am doubling my joy, by commu-nicating it as I have opportunity, to my dear grand — manuna.

X—— X-Every-body admires the elegance of this draw — ing-room. The finest japan china that I ever saw, except that of Lady G.‘s, which she so whimsically received at the hands of her lord, took particularly every female eye.

Sir Charles led me into a closet adjoining Your oratory, your library, my love, when you shall have furnished it, as you desired you might, by your chosen collection from Northamptonshire.

It is a sweet little apartment, elegant book-cases, unfurnished. Every other ornament complete. How had he been at work to oblige me, by Dr, Bartlett’s good offices, while my heart perhaps was torn, part of the time, with uncertainty!