George Delmont then, without waiting for an answer, went again to confult Armitage, meaning to fet out inflantly for the north. His brother, forgetting in five minutes all that had paffed, dreffed himfelf to ride in the park, where Miss Goldthorp had promifed to meet him, and where the plan was finally arranged. Miss Goldthorp, in a week afterwards, became Mrs. Delmont. Dr. Winflow flood amazed at her cruelty, and loft his appetite in confequence of this bitter difappointment. Mrs. Winflow's fits were fo ferious, that she was haftened to the fea; and poor Middleton determined to escape from the raillery of his acquaintance, the amazement of his father, and the nervousness of his mother, by driving his curricle on a tour to the Lakes, about which he cared nothing.

The Major and his bride fat out in great fplendor for Southampton, in the, neighbourhood of which his regiment: was quartered.

CHAP. IV.

Helas!-où trouver des traits et des couleurs,
Qui puiffent retracer l'exces de fes douleurs ?

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EN miferable days had paffed fince Mrs. Glenmorris had been confined and treated as a mad woman. Reduced to the last stage of weaknefs by a devouring fever, the recovered her reason only to know that he had loft every thing elfe.. Why he was where the found herfelf she knew not, nor by whose authority the had been placed there. Her extreme languor and feebleness permitted her not to remonftrate; it hardly fuffered her. mildly and plaintively to entreat of the perfons fhe faw around her information: as to the cause and duration of her con-finement, and implore them to tell her if Medora, her dear child, had been heard of, and would be restored to her.

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Thofe

Thofe whofe bufinefs it was to attend the invalids in the house treated her now with gentlenefs and humanity; but they told her that all queftions were uselefs, and that she must forbear to make them. Very fain would fhe have known if the idea, that confusedly floated in her mind, of having feen her mother, had any foundation, or was merely the dream of delirium. It was in vain the unfortunate mother of Medora endeavoured to recal distinctly the fucceffion of images which feemed to have paffed through her mind, before they were totally loft in the overwhelming mifery of her lofs; a lofs which, though it had not at first wholly annihilated her faculties, had from its very commencement fo fhaken them asi to be abfolutely infupportable when her endeavours to recover that lofs were evidently vain; and even now, when she thought of what the prefent. ftate of her. daughter might be, fhe became fick and giddy. The earnest, the agonizing defire to fet forth once more in fearch of

Medora,

Medora, and the cruel certainty that she was herself a prifoner, continually overcame the little ftrength fhe had acquired, and the was compelled to throw herself on her bed, and fhut out the light -the light that feemed to reproach her for beholding it, when the only object she delighted to gaze upon was no where to be feen.

The woman, who was chiefly her attendant, endeavoured fometimes to reafon with her and fometimes to amuse her; but in fuch a state of mind the most profound reafoning would have failed; and fuch as a coarfe and uneducated woman could offer, ferved only to teafe and irritate her; yet as he could never prevail on the woman to leave her alone any where but in her own room, fhe often declined what the woman told her was directed by her phyficians, to walk in a large garden that belonged to the houfe.. It was furrounded by an high wall, and terminated by a group of old limes, to which there had formerly been a walk of

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cut holly, but it had long been fuffered to grow as a fhade and screen for the un happy patients, of which there were never less than fix or eight in this large. and melancholy abode, which had formerly been a nobleman's villa, and fifty years ago had frequently received the statesman at his hours of retirement, and the courtier in his moments of relaxation; but fold on the extinction of the male branch of the family, it had been now for many years a receptacle for lunatics,, whose friends could afford to give very high prices for their accommodation.

Like all those, who with even morbid fenfibility, have encountered fingular calamities, Mrs. Glenmorris found nothing, that during her convalefcence, was fo, foothing to her as the air-There, it feemed as if, fhaking off the weight that: impelled her to the earth, fhe could expatiate in boundless space, and again meet that angelic creature, who, the feared, was for ever loft to her in this world of woe and disappointment.. In the air fhe breathed!

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