. May I use the freedom to enquire for the young lady, said one of them, (whom I recollected to have been particularly obliging and attentive to me at the moment of my accident,) I was sorry to learn below that it had been found necessary to call a surgeon.
His attendance Madam, answered I, was wholly unnecessary, as a slight sprain is all the inconvenience my fall has occasioned; and I am sure I ought not to regret

an accident to which I owe so much kindness and civility.
Indeed I am extremely sorry you have been so unfortunate, returned she; tho' we have profited so much from the event, that if it is only the means of confining you with us for some little time, we shall find difficulty enough in regretting it.
I endeavoured to return an answer expressive of my satisfaction on having encountered a family whose humanity did so much honor to their characters; but my mind was uneasy, and I fear my looks contradicted my words.
Yes, cried Lady Mary, interrupting, me, yet you were so extremely unwilling to trust yourself, tho' but for a single night, with this same hospitable family, that do you know, niece, our invalid insisted on returning upon the identical horse that gave us all this alarm, in spite of the surgeon's denunciation against so imprudent a scheme.

Good heavens! dear Madam, what an idea! But I hope you have entirely given up all thoughts of such a plan.
Before I proceed, however, in my account of this formidable day, I must interrupt the present conversation by giving you a description of this lady, whose manners and conversation appear so affable and engaging. I told you there were two who entered together; but the friend who accompanied this engaging young lady, and on whose arm she hung, was remarkable for nothing but an air of sycophantish obsequiousness, which instantly informed me she resided in the family in the comfortable capacity of an humble friend.
The young lady herself appeared about twenty. Her extreme height, which rendered her figure at first sight remarkable, had not imbibed the slightest degree of that awkwardness which often in very tall people precludes grace; on the contrary,

her form was uncommonly elegant, and her features, tho' not so regular on examination as a first glance lead me to conclude, being embellished by a very beautiful complexion, and her shape improved by an easy air, fully entitled her to the encomium of being what is generally esteemed a prodigious fine woman. You will presently discover, Sophia, why my pen is so minute in
