 through the head, did I believe it.
After this, I need hardly tell you, I mean to try my sate with the dear girl, and shall soon know whether I am to

load my pistols or not; for as to living without her, it is an impossibility.
This is all I can tell you at present, except that my torment (for as such I now look upon her) visits the idol of my soul.—Her aunt, with whom she lives at present, has so great a partiality for every thing dignified with a title, that in spite of a few scandalous anecdotes which have flown about concerning her Ladyship, she has called upon her on her return to the country.
The same favourable circumstance may perhaps gain me admission: hitherto I have only had the felicity of meeting my adorable once or twice as she was airing in the carriage with her old duenna. My bow was graciously returned, accompanied by a most bewitching smile.—Adieu.—
Your's, sincerely, SOMMERVILLE.

Miss Herbert to Miss Fermer.
Colchester.
SO you are perfectly of Mrs. Mountague's opinion, Sophia.—Surely this cannot be from any thing I told you, since I merely said I had seen his Lordship, and that he had done me the honour to dance a minuet with me. If this is a proof of conquest, it renders the matter mighty easy.
But what will you say, my dear, when informed that he is now not only a visitor here, but a first rate favourite of my aunt's. She has had several parties, and his Lordship is never left out of the list of her invited friends—he is so well bred, so agreeable, so perfectly the man of quality.—These are her remarks, not mine, pray observe that. Though I confess I must subscribe to the justice of them, for he really has the art of pleasing in a very eminent degree.
And does he practice this dangerous talent on you, Emily? My Sophia would

I presume.—Why not? It would be paying me a poor compliment were be to make me an exception.—But no more trifling, I love you too well to teaze you.
Know then that I have some little reason to believe, I have made a deeper impression upon his mind than is perfectly agreeable to his friend, the charming widow, for she now affects to talk of him merely as a friend, a young man for whom she really has a particular esteem; one whom she wishes well, as he appears to be deserving, and to whom,
