at an end; neither can I think without repugnance of remaining in town, cooped up in small, confined, unwholesome apartments, and of such only will our finances allow; while a neat rustic habitation in the country can be procured perhaps at less expence. Another motive no less powerful, conspires to give additional force to my desire of leaving London as soon as convenience will permit, and settling as far from it as possible; I will confess my vanity, for surely it is a natural pride— I cannot think of being recognized by Mr. Roatsley, after this change in our appearance, without pain. Were he like Mrs. Hindon, to discover by his behaviour that from our apparent fall we were sunk in his estimation, I should with ease cast him from my heart for ever: but of this mean weakness, incident only to common minds, I cannot suspect him. I fear only to be the object of his pity! Oh! Sophia! pity from Roatsley would mortify me more severely than unmerited contempt from the rest of the world. How few are there who do not allow themselves, perhaps unconsciously, to be more influenced by appearances than they suspect. Miss Seymour, while moving in a sphere, if not splendid at least creditable, is no longer the same person when reduced to exist only through the efforts of her own industry; and though still entitled to the respect of the unprejudiced, nay perhaps to their esteem, yet being sunk, to her intrinsic value, and deprived of a thousand little adventitious circumstances that give life and alacrity to an infant passion, how can it be supposed to combat and struggle against those dangerous mortifications which are the greatest foes to its progress. No, Sophia, I sincerely hope I shall see him no more. To you, I divulge every thought that oppresses my heart, for from your sympathy alone I can hope to derive the slightest alleviation. To you then, my dear, I will acknowledge, that the severest wound my grandfather's renunciation has inflicted, is its having awakened me from a pleasing delusive dream, on the idea of which I have almost existed ever since I overheard Roatsley's acknowledgment to his friend of his partiality in my favour. I confess it was weak, it was unpardonable, to allow my mind to indulge in such reveries; yet they stole on me imperceptibly, and I could not resist giving way to the flattering hopes, that had he beheld me in that advantageous point of view in which rank and fortune ever place their votaries, had he seen me in the circle to which my birth entitles