 she endeavoured in vain to suppress her tears; but they were tears of joy.
SIR John presented the bride with a pair of ear-rings, and a cross of diamonds, and I had the pleasure of placing my picture in a bracelet upon lady Somerville's arm. From the elegence of our dinner and supper at the cottage, I apprehend that lady Somerville is one of those extraordinary

characters who do not think that the most refined understanding or the most exalted sentiments, place a woman above the little duties of life.
THE new married couple are to dine with me this day. Sir John is gone to try if he can prevail upon lady Somerville to accompany them. Next week they set out for Genoa; they are to occupy our house in town, while they stay in London. M•y their voyage thither and through life be attended with prosperous gales! Amen, and adieu.




I SINCERELY congratulate my dear Fanny on the fortunate denoüement of her pleasing and interesting narrative, and join in her good wishes for the happiness of lady Somerville and the new married pair.—As you seem inclined to rally me on my turn for moralizing I shall not exert it at present, though I think lady Somerville's story a very proper subject for it.
BUT to deal inge•…ously, I have a stronger reason for declining to expatiate on it than what I have mentioned, which is my being stinted in time, as I am going to dine at lord Withers's, where we shall stay this night. On Thursday we are to dine at Sir William Lawson's, and Friday is fixed for our setting out for York.
THIS short letter will probably be the last you will receive from me till my return from thence. If I were superstitious I would not go

to York, as I cannot help feeling a kind of presentiment against it. Why did lord Seymour attempt to inspire me with this disgust? I will not reason farther upon the subject.
"Obedience is better than SACRIFICE;
but pray is not that sometimes the greatest we can make?

AFFECTIONATE regards and sincere congratulations wait on the hosts and guests at Straffon-Hill, from all this house, and from



IN justice to those friendly apprehensions which you seem to suffer on my account, I think I ought to inform you, that the so-much dreaded event of an interview with the marchioness, is over without my being sensible of the least ill consequence from it. All lovely! all engaging, as she is! I had armed my heart with the remembrance of her former treatment; and though the little rebel did
