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tie, every happiness. She imparted to him, with perfect confidence, every thought of her artless bosom; she related to him all the passages of her life that dwelt on her memory, and with unaffected goodness lamented, that in a sudden departure she made no provision for her poor pensioners. Her father!—dear though mistaken parent!—he would take care of her dependants, and regard with peculiar interest every object of her favour. Floods of tears accompanied any allusion to her father. The sage evidently shared her griefs, and consoled her by pleading, that in leaving the Baron she rescued him from attainder and disgrace; and through her influence he might be safe and happy. He gently stole her attention from past or anticipated sorrows, by engaging her to talk on subjects fraught with the rich and select intelligence of his own mind, improved by study and by travel in foreign lands.

Late in the evening her sage guardian resigned Dulsibella to the protection of the Earl of Murray. His Lordship received the fair voyager with paternal cordiality; and after a sumptuous repast she and her noble kinswomen retired to rest. Next morning the Earl introduced Dulsibella to the young Lord Glenonan, the favourite hero of Holland, and a correspondent of her grandmother, the late Baroness. Dulsibella had often mentioned him to the