intellects, which gave very promising hopes; and now the difficulty was to get him a tutor. Lord Hazard fairly owned he despaired of finding one to his wish. He declared he had himself witnessed so much ill conduct in men of that description, that he should be very cautious indeed how he made a choice.
These doubts he often imparted to Lady Hazard, who said she had mixed very little in the world, and therefore was happy whenever he was so good as to give her his opinion, in order that she might form hers. She could not help thinking, however, that he was warmer on that subject than he otherwise would have been, had not an ill choice been made in a tutor for him. She hoped he would be able to find a man who should have talents, and yet be honest.

'If,' said my lord, 'I could form a tutor, he should be ingenuous above all things; not ashamed

if he found any of those trivial vices creeping on him to which human nature is subject, to confess and amend them. Such a kind of man cannot design to do ill, because he is sorry for his own infirmity. Ingenuousness has a tendency to gratitude, which is with me the first of virtues. I declare if I was obliged to accuse a man of a crime, and he could prove his motive to be in the smallest degree similar to any thing I had ever forgiven in myself, I should instantly feel an inclination to pardon him. It is the sneaking, underhand villain I hate; the hypocrite, the deceiver, who studies to be a rascal; who stings while he fawns. But he who acts from mere intuitive principles, may correct his frailty by his judgment; and, at any rate, you have a declared enemy, and know how to be on your guard. One stands some chance with a lion, but who can provide against the venom of a slow worm?'

Thus ended a conversation which the reader may hereafter think I had a reason for inserting.
Very little passed in this family worthy relation till Master Charles was twelve years old, when one day my lord brought a gentleman who, he said, answered, in every particular, that description of person he had so long and so fruitlessly sought for, as

a tutor for his darling son. As to Zekiel, he did not believe him to be his son at all, though he had in vain tried to prove him legally illegitimate. He therefore took very little further notice of him than to remit him money; nor did he