, whose power it establishes, will point its vassals, to no pursuit, but what is laudable.
Their farewell scene passed on that very spot, which I have described in the last chapter, as witness to the declaration of Bolton's passion. Their farewell —but where the feelings say much, and the expression little, description will seldom succeed in the picture.
Their separation, however, was alleviated by the hope that it was not likely to be of long continuance: sir Thomas's declaration, of his intending that Harry should follow them in a few months, was not forgotten; and the intermediate days were swallowed up, in the anticipation of the pleasures, which that period should produce.
In the mean time, they took something from the pain of absence by a punctual correspondence. These letters I have seen: they describe things little in themselves; to Bolton and Lucy they were no trifles; but by others their importance would not be understood. One recital only I have ventured to extract for the perusal of the reader; because I observe, that it strongly affected them, who, in this instance, were interested no more than any, to whom the feelings it addresses are known; and some of my readers, probably, have the advantage of not being altogether unacquainted with the persons of whom it speaks.

TO assume her semblance, is a tribute which vice must often pay to virtue. There are popular qualities which the world looks for, because it is aware, that it may be sometimes benefited by their exertion. Generosity is an excellence, by the apparent possession of which I have known many worthless characters buoy'd up from their infamy; though with them it was, indeed, but thoughtless profusion; and, on the other hand, I have seen amiable men marked out with a sneer by the million, from a temperance or reservedness of disposition, which shuns the glare of public

and the pleasures of convivial life, and gives to modesty and gentle manners the appearance of parsimony and meanness of spirit. The imputation of merit with mankind, Sindall knew to be a necessary appendage to his character; he was careful therefore to omit no opportunity of stepping forth to their notice as a man of generosity.
There was not a gentleman's servant in the county, who did not talk of the knight's munificence in the article of vails; and a park-keeper was thought a happy man, whom his master sent with a hanch of venison to sir Thomas. Once a year too he feasted his tenants, and indeed the whole neigbourhood, on the