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"The ot up hastily," said Diana: "they cannot

have known each other long"

"But two months: they met in October at the county ball at S- But

where there are no obstacles to a union, as in the present case,

where the connection is in every point desirable, delays are

unnecessary: they will be ives up to them, can he refitted for their reception"

The first time I found St John alone after this communication, I

felt tempted to inquire if the event distressed him: but he see to offer him

more, I experienced some shame at the recollection of what I had

already hazarded Besides, I was out of practice in talking to hiain frozen over, and ealed

beneath it He had not kept his prodifferences between us,

which did not at all tend to the developed his kinswoman, and lived under

the sareater than when he had known e

schoolmistress When I remembered how far I had once been admitted

to his confidence, I could hardly co the case, I felt not a little surprised when he raised