, I will take care to introduce you into proper setts for the purpose.
Keep up your spirits, I desire you, and come to me this evening—I don't care to go much abroad in my present situation, and shall be glad of an agreeable

female friend to join our little party. On your account we shall not play high to-night; so that if you put fifty pieces in your card-purse, for I dare say you have not a pam-box, they will probably be sufficient.—Rely upon my friendship, and believe me sincerely
Your's, M. DUPONT.


LADY DESMOND TO MR. EVELYN.
I AM persuaded that a line from me will give you pleasure, as it will be a more convincing proof of my recovery than any other that you can at this distance receive—Yes, my most generous, and best of brothers! your Emma is again restored to health and happiness, and at this hour more blessed, than if she had never tasted sorrow.

My husband's tenderness and virtue are now established on a solid base—He sees his errors, and sure that is sufficient to prevent his ever falling into them again—But he does more, he feelingly repents them—His sorrow is sincere, it flows from love for me, and for our children, as well as from contrition.—He regards not his own sufferings, but cannot bear the thought of my partaking them; he strives to conceal the anguish of his mind from me, and would rather it should still prey upon his heart, than be alleviated by the sympathy of mine.
But I will watch over his dejected spirit, will pour the balm of tenderness upon his reclaimed heart, and speak of comfort to my afflicted mourner. These are the offices of virtuous love, the real proofs of conjugal affection; and most

supremely happy do I think myself in being called to this delightful task.
We never know our strength till it is tried; our virtues and our passions all lie dormant, unless occasion calls them forth. Bred up in ease and affluence, a life of poverty appeared to me a state of misery; the idea was delusive, and is vanished.—Can I regret the pomp of dress and equipage, when put in competition with my husband's love? While I possessed them, did they make me happy? Too truly I can answer, they did not—And are not millions so, who never have enjoyed them?
To this you may reply—There is a wide distinction between privation and deprivation; those who have never known the elegancies of life can easily support the wants they scarcely feel
