of Mifs Cardonnel, that though he had pafied hardly three quarters of an hour in his company, the felt an extraordinary intereft in his favour. "This Mr. Delmont," said she to Mifs Richmond, as foon as he had left them, "is a very agreeable man-furely he is wonderfully interefting." "Indeed I think him fo," anfwered her friend, "I cannot imagine of whom it is he is in fearch?"

"And where is he fearching for this loft friend?" rejoined Mifs Cardonnel, "or wherefore fhould he fuppofe this friend among your woods, my dear Annabelle?"

"I cannot even guess. And from whence can he come or whither be going? It is inexplicable when one comes to reflect on it."

"It is indeed-I wish we had asked him-however, you will have an opportunity of enquiring to-morrow, you know," faid Miss Cardonnel.—

"Oh! perhaps not-it is not certain you know that he will come."

"Not

"Not certain !—why should he not ?"

Nay, fay rather why should he?He is already certain we cannot give him the information he wants.-And when a man of his fort has any scheme that occupies his imagination, he does not care much for any thing else."

"What do you mean, my dear Annabelle, by a man of his fort ?”

"A young man, gay and etourdi, and in the purfuit, as I fuppofe him to be, of fome woman.".

Mifs Cardonnel felt at this fpeech a fenfation to which fhe had been hitherto a franger." A woman," cried fhe, with quickness," why should you think foSurely, my friend, fuch a fuppofition is inconfiftent with your natural charity and candour.-Why fhould you fuppofe Mr. Delmont is pursuing fome intrigue?"

My dear Mary, how can you afk why I fhould fuppofe it?-It is true I have lived in the world but fome eighteen. or twenty months longer than you have, but I must have made but very little ufe

of my eyes, if I did not fee that fome fuch project, fome scheme of felf-gratification, occupies every individual; and that no-body cares for those who cannot in some way or other contribute to their pleasure or their profit."

"Nobody?-Ah! my friend, do you then make no exceptions." "Oh! certainly it were illiberal not to make fome," faid Mifs Richmond, fighing," and you know I have at least one exception; but when my dear Mary has lived to obferve the men of the world, fuch as I have been ufed to fee, fhe will know how rare those exceptions are, and how rarely they can. fafely be made in favour of a stranger, a young man fuch as we have juft feen.Mr. Delmont will call to-morrow, perhaps, if he thinks he can procure any intelligence of this friend of his from us, but I dare fay he will otherwise forget. that he has feen us at all."

Mifs Cardonnel, who felt pain without knowing why, was not forry to let the converfation drop, and the fair friends foon

foon after parted. Mifs Cardonnel, in spite of herself, continuing to recall the looks, the manner, the fentiments of Delmont; while Mifs Richmond was compelled to entertain very unpleasant fpeculations, as to the actual fituation of the perfon he had come into that neighbourhood to seek.

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CHAP. VII.

Thefe are thy triumphs, thy exploits, O Cæfar!

W terefting

HILE all that was pleasant and interesting in the voice and manner of Miss Cardonnel, affected Delmont from the general resemblance fhe bore to Miss Glenmorris, he could not but compare their deftinies; and his heart bled afresh to reflect on what might at this moment be the fituation of the wandering, unprotected, Medora.-If mere fcenery had poffeffed the power to fufpend, for a moment, the anguifh of the heart, he might have found a tranfient relief in the uncommon beauty of the place he visited. A lake, reflecting the moon-beams on its broad and clear surface, was fed at its extremity by three waterfalls dashing, in different directions, down rocks which were shadowed by trees, in fome places hiding, in others