 by his assistance. Sir Thomas, drawing his sword, threatened to put him instantly to death. •• he did not expiate his treachery by obeying implicitly the instructions he should the• receive: these were, to have the horse saddled at the hour agreed on, and to proceed, without revealing to Miss Sindall the confession he had made, on the road which sir Thomas now marked out for him. With this, after the most horrid denunciations of vengeance in case of a refusal, the poor fellow was fain to comply; and hence his terror, when they were leaving the house. They had proceeded but just so far on their way, as sir Thomas thought proper for the accomplishment of his design, when he, with his valet de chambre, and another servant, who were confidants of their master's pleasures, made up to them, and after pretending to upbraid Lucy for the imprudence and treachery of her flight he carried her to this house of one of those pro••i•••• dependants▪ whom his vi••• had made necessary

When she came to the close of this recital, the idea of that relation in which she stood to him from whom these outrages were suffered, stopped her tongue; she blushed and faltere•. "This story, said she, I will now forget for ever—except to remember that gratitude which I owe to you." During the vicissitudes of her narration, he had clasped her hand with a fearful earnestness, as if he had shared the dangers she related; he pressed it to his lips. —"Amidst my Lucy's present momentous concern• I would not intrude my own; but I am selfish in the little services she acknowleges; I look for a return."—She blushed again—"I have but little art, said she, and cannot disguise my sentiments; my Henry will trust them on a subject, which at present I know his delicacy will forbear."
Annesly now entered the room, and Bolton communicated the trust he was possessed of in his behalf, offering to put him in immediate possession of the sum which Mr. Rawlinson had bequeathed to his management, and which that gentleman had more than doubled since the time it had been left by Annesly's unfortunate father.
"I know not, said Annesly, how to talk of those matters, unacquainted as I have been, with the manners of polished and commercial nations. When I have any particular destination for money I will demand your assistance; in the mean time, consider me as a minor, and use the trust already reposed in you, for my advantage and the advantage of those whom misfortune
