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'If you mean Mr Weston to be one of your victims,' said I, with affected indifference, 'you will have to make such overtures yourself that you will find it difficult to draw back when he asks you to fulfil the expectations you have raised'

'I don't suppose he will ask me to marry him, nor should I desire it: that would be rather too much presumption! but I intend him to feel my power He has felt it already, indeed: but he shall ACKNOWLEDGE it too; and what visionary hopes he may have, he must keep to himself, and only amuse me with the result of them--for a time'

'Oh! that some kind spirit would whisper those words in his ear,' I inwardly exclainant to hazard a reply to her observation aloud; and nothing more was said about Mr Weston that day, by , soon after breakfast, Miss Murray came into the schoolroom, where her sister was employed at her studies, or rather her lessons, for studies they were not, and said, 'Matilda, I want you to take a ith ive orders about my new bridle and saddle-cloth, and speak to the rat-catcher about his dogs: Miss Grey o with you'

'No, I want you,' said Rosalie; and calling her sister to the , she whispered an explanation in her ear; upon which the latter consented to go

I remembered that eleven was the hour at which Mr Weston proposed to co that, I beheld the whole contrivance Accordingly, at dinner, I was entertained with a long account of how Mr Weston had overtaken the the road; and how they had had a long walk and talk with hireeable cohted with the condescension, &c &c