He received my compliments as a man might be supposed to do, to whom praise is not a new thing; and made me very handsome ones, declaring himself acquainted with my character, with my connections with your family, and with one of the most excellent of young ladies. This naturally introduced the praises of our Harriet; in which he joined in so high and so just a strain, that I saw his heart was touch-ed. I am sure it is: so set yours at rest. It must do. E very-thing is moving, and that not slowly, to the event so desirable. I led to the graces of her person: he to those of her mind. He allowed her to be, for both, one of the most perfect beauties he had ever seen. In short, Mrs. Selby, I am convinced, that the important affair will ripen of itself. His sisters. Lord L. Dr. Bartlett, all avowedly in our lovely girl’s favour, and her merit so extraordinary; it must do. Don’t you remember what the old song says?

When Phoebus doM his beams display. To tell men gravely ti>at ‘lis day. Is, to suppose them blind.

All I want, methinks, is, to have them oftener to-gether. Idleness, I believe, is a great friend to love. I wish his affairs would let him be a little idle. They must be dispatched soon, be they what they will; for Lord L. said, that when he is master of a subject, his execution is as swift as thought. Sir Chai’les hinted, that he should soon be obliged to go to France. Seas are nothing to him Dr. Bartlett said, that he considers all nations as joined on the same continent, and doubted not but if he had a call, he would undertake a journey to Constantinople or Pekin, with as little difficulty as some others would (he might have named me for one) to the Land’s-end. Indeed he appears to be just that kind of man. Yet he seems not to have any of that sort of fire in his constitution, that goes off with a bounce, and leaves nothing but vapour and smoke behind it.

You are in doubt about our girl’ti fortune. It is not a despicable one. He may, no question, have a woman with a much greater: and so may she a man. What say you to Lady D ‘s proposal, rejected for his sake; at hap-hazard too, as the saying is? But let it once come to that question, and leave it to me to answer it.

You bid me to remark how Harriet looks. She is as lovely as ever; but, I think, not quite so lively, and somewhat paler; but it is a clear and healthy, not a sickly paleness; and there is a languor in her fine eyes, that I never saw in them before. She never was a pert girl; but she has more meekness and humility in her countenance, than, methinks, I could wish her to have; because it gives to Miss Grandison, who has fine spirits, some advantages, in conversation, over Harriet, that, if she had, me-thinks she should not take. But they perifectly understand one another.