 a few days before her death; and, some time after, made me a present of part of her jewels, to the amount of two thousand pounds.—I would have declined so valuable a gift; but it was my dear Mrs. Bolton's dying request, that I should have them.
AT captain Barnard's earnest intreaty, I returned to Paris, where he still continued to sollicit our marriage, and I to refuse, till he had fulfilled his promise, with regard to lady Anne.—

At length, •he extorted one from me, that even her opposing it should not prevent our union; and, in an oblique manner, confessed, that she had been the cause of that letter which had given me so much pain, by her misrepresentation of my conduct at Bristol. He that can please is certain to persuade; and I, at last, acquuesced in his request.
HE would not hear of my returning into England till we were married. I had no parent's consent to ask, and he had wrote to the chaplain of his ship to come and marry us. Seemingly possest with the tenderest passion that ever warmed a human heart, he set out for Aix la Chapelle, where we supposed lady Anne to be; but, unluckily. she had left it two days before captain Barnard arrived, and was then returning to England. Thither the captain followed. I was extremely concerned at this disappointment; but it was only on account of the additional trouble and fatigue he was to undergo.
HE wrote to me the very post: nay, I was sometimes so happy, as to receive two or three letters wrote at different times of the same day, filled with the language of love, with fond complaints of absence, and vows never to leave me more.
HOWEVER, blinded as I was by my own passion, I could not help perceiving, that when he had been some time in England, the stile of his letters began to change, though he still continued to complain of the cruel necessity that detained him; but not in that charming plaintive stile, which used, at once, to soften and delight my heart.
THREE months passed away, in this manner, during which time, I received a cold, but civil letter from lady Anne, congratulating me on

the constancy of my lover, and thanking me for the needless compliment I had paid her, as she was perfectly convinced we were too much in love, to follow any persons advice but our own.—Notwithstanding this, she very sincerely wished my happiness, whether I should
