 on strict justice and unbiassed integrity. It leads me to imagine that some previous prepossession must have taken root in his mind; and it is not unlikely that Lady Linrose (being herself deceived) may have occasioned or at least confirmed this disgust, even without the slightest deliberate design of injuring your cause. At all events, on his arrival all can be

easily and effectually explained; and you have now but little reason to dread his inflexibility while you possess an advocate so thoroughly well disposed as Lord Linrose, to exert all his rhetoric in your behalf.
I had just satisfied her in regard to the part Lady Linrose has acted, and concluded my narrative, acknowledging my astonishment and perturbation on receiving an explanation so unlooked for of the seeming inconsistencies in Lord Linrose's conduct, when a note was brought me from him. He was, as I had suspected from the housekeeper's account, and as his own letter led me to imagine, on his way to Dover; and wrote from the inn, on the great road, about four miles from this place.
He laments his disappointment on finding I was not yet returned when he called this morning, and requests leave

to be allowed to wait on me to-morrow morning.
The moment I had read this note, I gave it to Lady Aubrey, who desired me to offer her compliments to his Lordship, and to request in her name the favour of his company to-morrow at breakfast.
I then withdrew to my dressing room to answer it. Glad of a pretext for being a few moments alone, I threw myself into a chair, and gave way to a reverie of the most enchanting nature. What a revolution in my mind had a few hours effected! What a reverse, from the depression that had but that very morning almost wholly overpowered me! My spirits were elated to a degree of enthusiasm; and I thanked the Almighty with a fervour till now unfelt for the delightful prospect that on all sides surrounded me. I sat down at length to my bureau. Had my pen followed the dictates of my heart,

I knew I should have committed my note to the flames instead of sending it away; yet I could not affect a cold ceremony, so opposite to my own feelings and to that affection which Lord Linrose had declared in terms of such warmth. Here is what I was obliged to rest satisfied with at last.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD LINROSE.
I must confess my astonishment on having a letter from Lord Linrose put this evening into my hands immediately upon my return to Aubrey Castle. I will not affect
