while.'

The man was not unwilling to oblige me, and got down to help me in.

"I never had feen poverty and misery till this moment; I never had an idea of the degree of wretchednefs which the laws of England permit a fet of men called parish officers to inflict upon the poor. I will not fhock you, my dear friend, with a description of the wretched ftate of these poor creatures, a woman and three helpless children-Of their disease I could not know much, but it feemed to me to arife from poverty and want of neceffary food. The little af fiftance I could give them on our melancholy way was but their due; for how dreadful was the peril from which their chancing to pass had faved me!— I arrived once more at Skipton, and returned to the inn, from whence I had gone with the wretch Darnell, on his promise to restore me to my mother."

The entrance of Glenmorris now occafioned an interruption; and Delmont

seeing

feeing Medora much affected at his melancholy looks (which too truly told that he had heard nothing of her mother) he would not suffer her to continue her narrative till the following day, when Glenmorris again going out on the fame anxious enquiry, Delmont liftened with eagerness to its continuance.

CHA P. XI,

Speranza mia cára non ti ho perdúto, vedrà il t'uo fembiánte, i tuoi ábiti, la tuá ómbra; ti amero, telo dirò a te fteffo. Quali fono i tormenti a cui úna tal felicità non ripári ?

A

s I was now," said Medora, "in the house of a perfon who had before fhewn every difpofition to protect me, and who now was willing to promote

my fafe return to London by a conveyance the pointed out, I endeavoured to calm my fpirits, and to recover the terror and fatigue I had undergone, before I began my journey, which it was determined I should do by a coach, on the driver of which Mrs. Tarbat faid fhe could rely, and which was to fet out at eleven o'clock the next night from her houfe, coming from a more northern town to London; I therefore obtain ed fome repofe during that night, and

the

the next day, on the evening of which I was to depart, I employed myself in writing a narrative of what had happened to me fince I was cheated into quitting the hotel, and I anticipated the fatisfaction it would give to my mother and to you, my dear friend, when you found that I had exerted in fome degree, and as I hoped fuccessfully, fortitude which did not difcredit her instructions and your confidence.

"In this occupation, which I found tranquillised my mind, I employed myself till towards evening, then having occafion for fome more writing materials, and no one answering my bell, I ventured along an open gallery, which was carried round in the inn yard, to call a fervant, when cafting my eyes towards the bar windows, which were open, and oppofite the place where I ftood, I faw a gentleman who struck me as being fo like you, Delmont, that my aftonishment, mingled with doubt, with hope, and fear, hardly left

me

me the power of moving. I looked fteadily at the perfon; his back was towards me; but he moved a few paces, and his air, his walk, were furely your's. At that moment one of the housemaids paffed me; I eagerly enquired of her if the knew who that gentleman was?-Oh! yes Mifs,' anfwered the girl, It is one Squire Delmont, as his farvents have been a telling below; he's come out of Ireland, and is a going up to London, He only ftops a bit here.' This was enough for me to hear I confidered no farther To me there was only one Delmont in the world-I ran down ftairs, and exclaiming, Delmont, my dear, dear friend! I took the arm of him whom I believed to be that dear friend with the familiarity my mother's approbation had authorised; with all the trembling earneftness so naturally infpired by the delight of feeing you again, and of knowing with what joy you would afford me that protection which would end my perils and my fears. Ah! judge then how fe