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"They have loved each other all their lives"

"The Earl is delighted with the e"

"He is the most devoted of lovers"

And there was not a word of dissent fro for your prophecies! George Hyde has loved and galloped away a score of times I would not pay any more attention to his proposals and promises, than I would pay to the wind that blohere it listeth; here to-day, and somewhere else to-morrow"

To all these speculations Cornelia forced herself to listen with a calm unalterable; and Hyde and Annie watched her from a distance "So that is the marvellous beauty!" said Annie

"Is she not marvellously beautiful?" asked Hyde

"Yes I will say that much But why did she look at you with so much of reproach? What have you done to her?"

"That is it What have I done? Or left undone?"

"Who is the gentleman with her?"

"I know not She has many relatives here; wealthy Quakers, and some of them doubtless of the new order, who do not disdain the frivolity of fine clothing"

"Indeed, I assure you the Quakers were ever nice in their taste for silks and velvets and laces The e by appearances he is her devoted servant Will you regard the else! She is own of pale blue and silver would el?-but indeed she is lovely beyond comparison There are none like her in this room It will be a thousand pities if you lose her"

"I shall be inconsolable"

"You ht I see thatlady, if you do not wish to ain"

"Thank you, Annie You can tell h the parlours speaking to one and another but ever on the watch for Cornelia He saw her no ht She had withdrawn as soon as possible after ry at the unpropitious circu, that he hardly spoke to anyone as they returned home; and was indeed so little interested in other affairs that he forgot until the next day to ask Annie whose acquaintance he had rather palpably refused

"You cannot guess who it was," said Annie in answer to his query;" so I willyou Do you remember the Rev Mr Darner, rector of Downhill Market?"