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Great troups of people travelled thitherward Both day and night, of each degree and place--SPENSER

Much against their will, Major Delavie and his soi-disant son-in-law set forth for Lady Bela intelligence was to be despised; while she probably wished to obviate all reports of aas well as to keep them under her own eye

The reception rooms were less adorned than the lady's private apart ranks of chairs ranged round, and card-tables were set out in order The ladies sat in rows, and the gentlemen stood in knots and talked, all in full dress, resplendent figures in brilliant velvet, gold lace, and eed with gold or silver lace, under their aremmed shoe buckles The order of creation was not yet reversed; the eous in colour and ornament as the female, who sat in her brocade, powder and patches, fan in hand, to receive the ho and returning greetings, which were bestowed on hieneral favourite His mother, exquisitely dressed in a rich rose-coloured velvet train, over a creamy satin petticoat, both exquisitely eood cousin, and wanted to set him down to loo or ombre; but the veteran knew too hat the play in her house was, and saw, reen baize field of her spoils While he was refusing, Sir Aentleman whom I think you must have known in Flanders;" and the Major found hi hands with an old comrade Save for his heavy heart, he would been extre conversation

In thetowards a stout, clue black eyes staring out of her powder, while the extreme costliness of her crimson satin dress, and profusion of her rubies were ridiculous on the unformed person of a creature scarcely fifteen If she had been any one else she would have been a hideous spectacle in the eyes of the exquisitely tasteful Lady Bela the expression in her son's eye, whispered behind her fan, "We will soon set all that right;" then aloud, "My son cannot recover froine that we could steal you for an evening froht" Then as Sir A Lady Belle will favour you, Amyas"