None of your grave airs, my dear. The man is a good sort of man, and will be so, if you and Lady L. don’t spoil him. I have a vast deal of roguery, but no ill-nature, in my heart. There is luxury in jesting with a solemn man, who wants to assume airs of privilege, and thinks he has a right to be impertinent. I’ll tell you how I will manage I believe I shall often try his patience, and when I am conseious that I have gone too far, I will be patient if he is angry with me; so we shall be quits. Then I’ll begin again: he will resent: and if I find his as-pect very solemn Come, come, no glouting, friend, I will say, and perhaps smile in his face: I’ll play you a tune, or sing you a song Which, which! Speak in a moment, or the humour will be off.

If he was ready to cry before, he will laugh then, though against his will: and as he admires my fin-ger, and my voice, shall we not be instantly friends? It signified nothing to rave at her: she will have her way. Poor Lord (}.! At my first knowledge of her, I thought her very lively; but imagined not that she was indiscreetly so.

Lord (i.‘s fondness for his sancy bride was, as I have reason to believe, his fault. 1 dared not to ask p2 for particulars of their quarrel: and if I had, and found it so, could not, with such a raillying creature have entered into his defence, or censured her.

I went down a few moments before her. Lord G. whispered me, that he should be the happiest man in the world, if I, who had such an influence over her, would stand his friend.

I hope, my lord, said I, that you will not want any influence but your own. She has a thousand good qualities. She has charming spirits. You will have nothing to bear with but from them. They will not last always. Think only, that she can mean nothing by the exertion of them, but innocent gaiety; and she will every day love your lordship the better for bearing with her. You know she is generous and noble.

I see, madam, said he, she has let you into

She has not acquainted me with the particulars of the little misunderstanding; only has said, that there had been a slight one, which was quitemade up.

I am ashamed, replied he, to have it thought by Miss Byron, that there could have been a misun-derstanding between us, especially so early. She knows her power over me. I am afraid she despises me.

Impossible, my lord: Have you not observed, that she spares nobody when she is in a lively hu-mour?

True But here she comes! Not a word, ma-dam! I bowed assenting silence. Lord G. said she, approaching him, in a low voice, I shall be jealous of your conversations with Miss Byron.