Admirable Clementina! said Sir Charles: Admirable lady! said his Harriet; both in a breath.

She was the companion of my childhood, proceeded the exalted lady. VVe had our education together. I wn?, th(j sufferer; thank God! not the aggressor. She has made me great, by putting it into my power to forgive her. Letall my revenge be in her compunction from my forgiveness, and fro my M’ishes to promote her welfare!

And a revenge indeed would that be, said Sir Charles, were she, who had acted by an excellent creature, as she has done by you, capable of gene-rous compunction. But, noblest of women, can it be expected, \i’ //on can forgive her, t!iat your family should join, by giving up their reversionarv expectations, to rtxi-ard her for her cruelty to their child, who was entrusted to her kindest care and protection? Can you, madam, treat lighth’ tho-;e instances of 3-our parentsand brother’s love, v, hich have made tl’.em resent her barbarity to you? My dear Lady Clementina, you must not aim at being a/j:iv(’. nature, liemember that your grandfalhc.r never de r>‘vj^)ird this estate for Laurana. It was onl\— to be provisionally hers, in order to secure it the more ett’ectually to you; and, on failure of descendants from you, to your elder brother, who, however, wishes not for it. His heart is in your marriage. lie only wishes, that it may not be the cruel Lau-rana’s. If you can defeat the design of your grand — fathers, w ith regard tj your oiai interest, ought you to do injustice to your brother’s claim? () chevalier!

Ought you to think of disposing of your brother’s right? Has not he much better rea^^on to be consi-dered by you for his attection, than Laurana has for her cruelty? ^Abhorred be that sort of love, my dear Lady Clementina, which is |)leaded in excuse of barbarity, or of any extravagant, undutiful, or unnatural action!

She sighed. Tears again stole down her cheeks. After a short silence O spare me, chevalier! Despise me not, Lady Grandison! My enfeebled reason may lead me into error; but when 1 know it is error, I will not continue in it. I see that, with reg;ird to my brother’s interest in this estate, I rea-soHfd wrong. I was guilty, my dear Lady Ciran — ilison, 1 doubt, in your eye, of a false piece of ^ 2 A ^J heroism. I was for doing lexx than justice to a bro-ther, that I might do more than justice to an unna — tural relation.

All that Laurana can hope from you, my dear Lady Clementina, said Sir Charles, is, that you will intitle her to the receipt of the considerable legacy your granfather bequeathed to her

And how is that to be done, interrupted she, but by my marriage? .-ih, chevalier!

Such, indeed, is the state of the case. Such was it designed to be. I, madam, but state It. 1 advise nothing.