fred. Oh! these wanters of money," thrusting his hand under his periwig, "how is it they always have large families, and large sums to make up, when a man hasn't enough money in the house to buy the youngest a coral, or little Jacky his week's gingerbread ?" and he left us together.

Miss Wilfred resumed her seat; I took mine. An awkward silence. To Miss Wilfred, the sudden introduction evidently had been as unexpected as to me. For my own part, I was so much surprised (as much, I confess, by the singular beauty of the young lady, as by the abruptness of the case) that I lost, for a moment, my self-possession, which rarely deserted me. And it was impossible, I imagine, that a dolt, however insensible, could have beheld, for the first time, that lovely girl without emotion.

Helpless dog that I am! how can I describe Elizabeth Wilfred? And yet I feel that words could better portray her face than the pencil; for who ever painted soul?Raphael? hardly. (Kneller, thy women had no soulsthe better for thee!) But Spenser and Fletcher! they might assist my sorry inefficiency-those greatest painters of the beauty of women, who have less of earth than of heaven about them. Thus much only will I say, having cudgelled my brains wofully. Her complexion, her mouth, and her eyes were, perhaps, the most charming. Her complexion was dark, but with a warmth upon it; her mouth was more beautiful when she smiled, and most lovely when she was pensive; and her eyes were soft, and serenely sensuous, that (not to speak it irreverently) one could have thought I have done so that they might have raised themselves, unblamed, even towards the face of the Almighty. Forgive me the blush that this, when thou readest it, will call into thy cheeks-thou, to whom admiration was as flattery is to the few who are most like thee— thou, whose memory is ever near me, and sustains me— thou-a knell in my heart too truly tells me so-who art lost to me for ever!

We presently fell into conversation; if that may be termed conversation which is, rather, an interchange of