her husband so as to over-hear a pretended love scene between them, his villany is detected, and he is turned out of the house.


'I like the idea,' said the lady 'of all things in the world, and, with thy assistance am ready to set about it. But how Emma if he should turn the tables upon us? for he is very subtle.'
'I know it very well madam,' said Emma, 'for at this moment he is making as strong love to me as to yourself; but I promise you he finds me a very Pamela.'

The lady expressed some surprize at this intelligence, and asked her maid if she was not uneasy at it.

'On the contrary,' cried Emma, 'I am charmed; for to resist temptation is the proper exercise of virtue, and serves as a kind of moral penance to strengthen us in our duty. Oh I assure you madam you need not be uneasy: one look from virtue, though a lamb, will as surely make vice crouch, as the lion did at the sight of Una.'

By this time Mrs. Malplaquet was undrest, and soon after her maid retired; which opportunity I shall seize to account for my having given two such subordinate characters as Flush and Emma so particular an introduction.
To say the truth then, I think that, though the

clown should say no more than is set down for him, yet he should say all that is set down for him. The devil has been considered by some as the principal character in Paradise Lost. Comus on all hands is allowed to have the better of the lady. Will any one pretend to say Don Quixote would be any thing without Sancho. In all the Spanish plays the servants are the principal characters, and I have heard the soldier in WEST's General Wolfe spoken of as the best figure in the groupe. Emma would have defended this argument by saying that Honor is drawn in as masterly a style as Sophia; and Flush would have told you that both man and master were human puppets, moved by the same slangs. In short, I write for all readers, and I hope I have scarcely a character but some one or other will pitch upon for my hero.


THE challenge from the Hockleymen having been, as Mr. Flush informed us, accepted by the Castlewickites, a large plain, known by the name of the cricket green, situated near the high road, about midway between the two villages, was pitched upon for the scene of action. Thither repaired the