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The following conversation, which took place between the two friends in the puht or nine days, is given as a specimen of their very warinality of thought, and literary taste which marked the reasonableness of that attachment

They met by appointment; and as Isabella had arrived nearly five minutes before her friend, her first address naturally was, "My dearest creature, what can have e!"

"Have you, indeed! I aood ti?"

"Oh! These ten ages at least I ao and sit down at the other end of the roos to say to you In the first place, I was so afraid it would rain this , just as I wanted to set off; it looked very showery, and that would have thrown onies! Do you know, I saw the prettiest hat you can iine, in a shopin Milsom Street just now--very like yours, only with coquelicot ribbons instead of green; I quite longed for it But,with yourself all this one on with Udolpho?"

"Yes, I have been reading it ever since I woke; and I ahtful! Oh! I would not tell you what is behind the black veil for the world! Are not you wild to know?"

"Oh! Yes, quite; what can it be? But do not tell me--I would not be told upon any account I know it must be a skeleton, I ahted with the book!

I should like to spendit I assure you, if it had not been to meet you, I would not have come away from it for all the world"

"Dear creature! How ed to you; and when you have finished Udolpho, ill read the Italian together; and I have made out a list of ten or twelve lad I am! What are they all?"

"I will read you their names directly; here they are, in my pocketbook Castle of Wolfenbach, Clers, Necroht Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries Those will last us some time"