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'"Well, well, I won't mention it," said I "You may rely upon my silence, if that can afford you any consolation"

'"You proet rid of him now

'"Farewell, then!" said he, in a most doleful, heart-sick tone; and with a look where pride vainly struggled against despair, he turned and went away: longing, no doubt, to get hoht shut himself up in his study and cry--if he doesn't burst into tears before he gets there'

'But you have broken your promise already,' said I, truly horrified at her perfidy

'Oh! it's only to you; I know you won't repeat it'

'Certainly, I shall not: but you say you are going to tell your sister; and she will tell your brothers when they come home, and Brown immediately, if you do not tell her yourself; and Broill blazon it, or be the hout the country'

'No, indeed, she won't We shall not tell her at all, unless it be under the promise of the strictest secrecy'

'But how can you expect her to keep her prohtened mistress?'

'Well, well, she shan't hear it then,' said Miss Murray, somewhat snappishly

'But you will tell your mamma, of course,' pursued I; 'and she will tell your papa'

'Of course I shall tellthat pleases me so much I shall now be able to convince her how mistaken she was in her fears aboutwhat it was that delighted you sois, that I've huly; and another--why, you must allow me some share of female vanity: I don't pretend to be without that most essential attribute of our sex--and if you had seen poor Hatfield's intense eagerness inproposal, and his agony ofrefused, you would have allowed I had soony, I should think, the less your cause for gratification'

'Oh, nonsense!' cried the young lady, shaking herself with vexation 'You either can't understand nanimity, I should think you envied me But you will, perhaps, coreat as any--nahted with myself for my prudence, my self-command, my heartlessness, if you please I was not a bit taken by surprise, not a bit confused, or aard, or foolish; I just acted and spoke as I ought to have done, and was cohout And here was a --Jane and Susan Green call hily handsome I suppose they're two of the ladies he pretends would be so glad to have hireeable coh to ; and a row tired of; and to confess the truth, I rather liked him--better even, of late, than Harry Melthah he came upon me all alone and unprepared, I had the wisdoth to refuse hiood reason to be proud of that'