Your servant, brother, interrupted I. Your ser-vant, Sir Charles, said Mrs. Selby. And I say, Your servant, too, said Mr. Selby.

Who sees not that my sister Charlotte is ready to diselaiui the competition in fact, though not in words? Can there be characters more odious than those ot’a masculine woman, and an effeminate man? What are the distinguishing characteristics of the two sexes? And whence this odiousness? There are, indeed, vicn, whose minds, if I may be allowed th.e expression, seem to be cast into a female mould; whence the fops, foplings, and pretty fellows, who buzz about your sex at public places; ivomeii, v.hose minds seem to be cast in a masculine one; whence your 15arnevelts, my dear, and most of the women who, at such places, give the men stare for stare, swing their arms, look jolly; and those married wo-men who are so kind as to take the reins out of their Inisbands’ hands, in order to save the honest men trouble.

Your servant, Sir Your servant, Sir And some of them looked as if they had said. You cannot mean me, I hope; and those who spoke not, bowed and smiled thanks for his compliment to one fourth of the sex. il7y lord insultingly rubbed his hands for joy; Mr. Selby crowed; the other men slily smiled, though they were afraid of giving a more open approbation.

O my sister! said I, taking Harriet’s hand, we women are mere nothings We are nothing at all!

How, my Charlotte! Slake you no difference between being every-thing and nothing?

Were it not, my dear ladies, proceeded he, for male protectors, to what insults, to what outrages, would not your sex be subject? Pardon me, my dear, if I strengthen my argument by your excel-encics, bowing to his Harriet. Is net the dear creature our good Mrs. Shirley’s own daughter? AU the feminine graces are hers. She is, in my notion* what all women should be But wants she not a protector? Even a dream, a reverie

O Sir, spare me, spare me! sweetly blushing, said the lovely Harriet. I own I should have made a very silly, a very pusillanimous man! It is not long since, you know, Lady G. that I brought this very argument in favour of

Hush, Harriet! You will give up the female cause.

That is not fair, Charlotte, rejoined my brother; you should not intercept the convictions of an inge-nuous mind But I tmll spare my Harriet, if she will endeavour, for her own sake, to let nothing disturb her for the future but realities, and not any of those long, if they are inevitable ones.

But pray, Sir, said I, proceed in your argument, if you have any more to say.