pearance of each of thefe men; but my mother, who is no bad judge, and who, you know, can draw a tolerable likeness, filled up in fome of our converfations the outline my own obfervation made. An other man, who feemed to me equally worthless, was that Brownjohn, one of the most dauntless and ignorant coxcombs. I ever beheld. The difagreeable vulgar fellow prates of people he never faw as if they were his neareft relations; tells of lords, and knights, and efquires, whom he does not know even by fight, and fupports an appearance above what his iniquitous practice gives him, by dint of falfehood, fraud, and impudence. You would not think any thing that can be faid of him too harsh, if I had time to relate the anecdotes I have heard of his daring iniquity; and when you know that the extraordinary and difagreeable circumftances I have been involved in were of his contrivance, you will not, I think, imagine I fpeak of him too feverely."

1

" Of

"Of his contrivance!", exclaimed Delmont. "But I will be patient, MeBOOL 11 10 moms sm ovi9701) ---25 dora; proceed." bilqui d. Ji

"I

om will not give you any more then sladi of these ugly likeneffes, but go on to tell you, that every day, on my mother's return from her conferences with thefe fhe became more and more dejected; her men, ufual al courage a and juft confidence on her own powers deferted her, and for almost the first time in my life I heard her complain, and repent that in coming to England he had facrificed fubftantial happiness to the pursuit of a chimera, which, even if it could be attained, was not worth one year, nay, not one month, of the The trans quil happiness and domeftic comfort, we had known in America, before thefe, before these ambitious projects had been liftened to. once more, for I had often done it be fore, most earnestly exhorted her to pursue them no farther, but that the would determine, as foon as you returned,

20

which might be expected every days tape 1989 back to America.

If, faid I

bemisloze, "vid 10.

Delmont loves me, he will accompany Angoubts us (forgive me Delmont, for the b292019 : $1gh these if's implied;) if he does not, the upy sy jon lliw I'→ fooner I find thelter with you, my mo1st of no og ud reallonsstil vlou ther and my father, against a conviction the fooner that will, I own, give me pain, the fo nem skit di wanapings 191 I shall be restored to tranquillity, and to the uninterrupted performance of thofe duties which will always be enough for flomle 101 my heart, while I have fuch a father and fuch a mother to love me, and to love." - Delmont, fondly preffing her hand to his lips, fighed, congnghed band faid, Medora, you are the only person who could have Taifed thefe doubts; but I will not in

C

ΟΙ

My mother, continued the, "for what reafon I knew not, always escaped from this fort of difcourfe, and, I thought, wifhed, contrary to her ufual method in regard to me, to conceal fomething from me; that fomething then must be un eafy, for the whole ftudy of her life had been to fave me from pain, and to give me pleasure. She had however taught

me

me never to appear inquifitive, never to feek to know more than the thought proper to tell me. I therefore concealed my uneafinefs, and endeavoured, when after thefe difagreeable conferences the returned to me, to receive her with cheerfulnefs. It happened that in the hope of ending this irkfome bufinefs a little fooner, fhe had one day confented to dine with Brownjohn, on a fudden invitation, and as ༣༥.༠༠ The thought I should be uneafy at her prolonged abfence, fhe wrote a note with a pencil, accounting for it, which was brought to me by one of Brownjohn's clerks. Two days afterwards, my mother being again out, another note was brought to me by the fame perfon, who waited in a coach for an anfwer. I opened it; but here it is, my dear friend; though almoft effaced, you will fee how artfully it was copied after the other pencil note written in my mother's hand, and how eafy it was for me to be deceived."

Medora then gave Delmont a piece of paper, in in which was written with a pencil,

in an hand not diftinguishable from that of Mrs. Glenmorris, the following

words!

- * *My dearest girl, I am unexpectedly detained again, and induced, by the hope of bringing our bufinefs fooner to a clofe, to accept the invitation of Mr. Brownjohn to his houfe near Barnet, where fome of the parties will be, whofe advice is the moft material to me; and if we are together, we may perhaps be enabled to decide at once; come, therefore, my Medora, with the gentleman who delivers this, to your most affectionate

"L. G.".

"I am now, to fave time, fetting out in a poft-chaife with Mr. Brownjohn; he fends his coach and a confidential person

Not only the hand, but the ftyle of Mrs. Glenmorris were fo well imitated in this letter, that Delmont owned he fhould himfelf have been deceived. Indigna