 for the purpose, that she was certainly with child.
What a stroke for our hero! Must he begin already to feel the bitter reflections of having broken his promise. How to act? Which way to conceal her shame? He could not marry her—which at some intervals he had thoughts of—without consulting his father, and the consequence of such a consultation was apparent. Yet he had ruined her, and brought her into a situation that marriage alone could atone for. In so doing he had already broken his promise, and why not go farther, since there was no honourable means of retreat.
In this state, chequered with pleasure and compunction, had he passed several days, when Mr. Standfast one morning told our hero that some damned thing or other had come to his fatheris ears,

who required their immediate presence in town.—
'See there,'
said he, shewing him a letter he had that instant received.
TO THE REV. Mr. STANDFAST.
If you have the smallest regard for my peace of mind, come post to me the moment you receive this.

Charles not doubting but his amour and its consequences had already reached his father's ears, without considering how the intelligence could have been conveyed, told his tutor ingenuously that he was the cause of it. Mr. Standfast seemed greatly astonished at the declaration, and demanded how it could possibly be? The pupil exacting a solemn promise from his tutor that he would carefully preserve the most profound secresy, let him into the bundling secret from first to last, and concluded with vehemently entreating his advice.
Standfast looking very sagacious, said this must be the cause of Lord Hazard's injunction sure enough, which it was a very proper thing to comply with, for fear of irritating him farther. As for the rest, he said it was a cursed unlucky affair, but

fortunately the brother was under his thumb, and his best endeavours might be depended on to hush matters up.
If his father should mention it, he advised Charles to deny the whole business; though he had no doubt but he should use such arguments as would induce him not to say a word about it.
Charles was in raptures at the kindness of his tutor, who took care nevertheless to give the young gentleman a wholesome lecture, declaring his great repugnance to this duplicity of conduct, and protesting he only consented to it from the laudable view of preventing a difference between father and son.
By this time the chaise was at the door; for Standfast, zealous to obey his patron's mandate, had ordered it previous to this
