images he faw before him of Medora and her father feemed hardly real. He doubted whether he was not in the illusion of a dream Yet, attempting to foothe the anguish which he faw overcame Medora, he could only inarticulately express himfelf; and after fome words, attempting to comfort, though they only added to her difquiet (fince the thought he knew more than he would tell) he stopped merely from inability to speak on any subject with clearness at that moment.”

"My dear friend," faid Medora, tak ing his hand, "I believe you are very

ill!"

"No, not ill; only a little fatigued but that is nothing. Why fhould the foldier only be capable of long marches? Are not we farmers as hardy a race? Come, dear Sir," added he, fummoning his ufual cheerful manner," let us not bring disgrace on our profeffion. # Send me, I beseech you, in fearch of Mrs. Glenmorris, and I fhall forget that I have been fatigued at all."

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"Let us go, my dear Delmont,” replied Glenmorris, who was already as well acquainted with him as if they had known each other for years. "Yet whither go?"

"You must not go, Sir; we must not leave Medora unprotected. I cannot now relate all the reafons why I intreat you not to lofe fight of her; but let me, I implore you, go inftantly any where that is likely to yield us an hope of finding my excellent, my admirable friend; then may I once more fee Medora happy, and be fo myself, beyond all that I have hitherto believed poffible-happy in proportion as I have lately been miferable."

In despite of the effort Delmont made, it required lefs fagacity than Glenmorris poffeffed, to difcover that he was extremely ill; and at length he was induced to own that he had not been in bed for feveral nights, and that he did feel himfelf fomewhat difordered; "Neverthelefs," faid he, "I affure you, that were VOL. IV. K

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$ Glenmorris, however, would not fuffer him either to begin his enquiry after the mother, or to liften to the daughter, but infifted upon his going to his lodgings, and endeavouring to obtain fome repofe.

To begin our united fearch after my poor Laura," faid he, "with effect, we muft not fet out as invalids, liable to be affected by perfonal illness, go, there! fore, my dear Delmont, take the reft which is, I am fure, neceflary for you, and return to us when you are better able to hear, than you are now, what my daughter has to relate, and then we will confult together what can be done to relieve us all from fo cruel a fufpence. I have written," added he, "to Armitage, who will, I hope, be in London to-morrow."

Delmont faw that Medora was extremely

tremely folicitous he fhould follow her father's directions; he therefore conp" fented, though with reluctance, to go for a few hours to his lodgings, where, having changed his clothes, he threw himself upon the bed, and endeavoured to fleep; his fpirits, however, were in fo great a tumult, that to fleep was impoffible, and to attempt it only increased the irritability of his mind. Fatigue, great as he had undergone, could not lull his fenfes into temporary forgetfulnefs. The images of Glenmorris, of Medora, and of the beloved wife and mother they lamented, fleeted before his eyes, and merely fatigued by the endeavour to fleep, he ftarted up, and once more took his way to the apartments of Glenmorris.

Medora was fitting with her father, more languid, as Delmont thought, and more affected by their fudden meeting, than she had been at the immediate moment. Glenmorris appeared to him exactly what he had been defcribed; a perfon above the common height, and K 2 giving

giving the idea at once of perfonal strength and mental dignity. Though his eyes were blue, and remarkably foft, there was at times fomething to ftern in his countenance as infpired awe; and his voice deep, yet mufical, was one of those which could not be heard without pleafure, nor, when it was his purpofe to per fuade, without conviction. His eloquence however was rather natural than acquired. He Ipoke rather from the feelings of his heart than the acquifition of his undert ftanding, and when animated and interefted by his fubject, he arbfe to exercife native oratory, "He appeared father like an hero, fuch as Homer or Virgil defcribes, than a mere mortal of the prefent day. Glenmorris, who was hardly twenty when He married, was now only in his thirty-eighth year; but a fear across his forehead and note, which he had received when he became a prifoner to the pirates, and his originally fair complection being very much changed by climate, he appeared two or three years older. Delaudio set to elol adı yd bafa bonit & X

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