has most loved and reverenced. A mist rose to Lorraine's eyes, only to be dissipated by another gallop.

Some twenty years after, it might be questioned whether he would have felt much. With regard to Lord Etheringhame, Edward made no allowance for domestic necessities. I remember once reading a somewhat unnecessary volume, in which a gentleman (single, I am sure,) remonstrated on the exclusion of females from power. He might have spared himself the trouble! Few women but have some lover, husband, brother, or son, over whom they contrive to exert a very fair portion of authority.

As to Mr. Delawarr, another twenty years would have taught his youthful opponent, that political opinions are, like most others, subject to change. A century or two ago, the best blood in the kingdom was spent in defence of the right divine of kings—and it was called heroic conduct; now it is to be shed in defence of the rights of the people-and that is very heroic conduct too. I wonder what will be heroic conduct a century hence. Again: the Swiss guards of Louis XVI. were cut to pieces fighting under orders-every one talked of their bravery and their devotion; the Swiss guards

of Charles X. have done precisely the same thing, and their own country talks of hanging the survivors. Ireland, last year, was to be paradise, if that Peri, emancipation, was but sent there; now it is a wretched, degraded, oppressed country, unless the Union be dissolved! What ever will it be the year after? So much for any certainty of right in this world!

CHAPTER XXI.

"As our life is very short, so it is very miserable. "How few men in the world are prosperous! What an infinite number of slaves and beggars, of persecuted and oppressed people, fill all corners of the earth with groans, and heaven itself with weeping prayers and sad remembrances!

"Our days are full of sorrow and anguish, dishonoured and made unhappy with many sins, amazed with fears, full of cares, divided with curiosities and contradictory inte.. rests, made airy and impertinent with varieties, abused with ignorance and prodigious errors, made ridiculous with a thousand weaknesses, worn away with labours, laden with diseases, daily vexed with dangers and temptations, and in love with misery."

JEREMY TAYLOR.

JUSTICE has never been done to the merits of a wet day in summer -one of those days of wind and rain which fills the air with fragrance, for every full-blown flower has its sweet life fairly crushed out; when there is a good excuse for a fire-a fire being one of those luxuries for which, in England, we always expect a

reason; when it is cold enough to make warmth pleasant, yet without freezing one side while the other is burning. It was just such a day as this when Lorraine went to take a farewell dinner with Mr. Morland. Alternate showers of rain-drops or rose-leaves had been blown in gusts against the windows all the morning; but now the curtains were drawn, a warm red blaze came from the bright fire, and a softer and clearer light from the lamp, whose pure pale transparency is so prettily and fancifully compared, by an American writer,* to a gigantic pearl illuminated. A mahogany table, like a dark mirror, was drawn close to the fire - Mr. Morland had an old-fashioned predilection for its polished surface; on it stood three or four rich cut-glass decanters, "breathing of the sweet South," and a dark slender bottle, common enough in shape, but round which lingered the fragrance of burgundy. Two large arm-chairs were drawn on each side the fireplace, in which sat Mr. Morland and his guest. Mr. Morland. "After all, I do not so much regret the delay this occasions in your entrance into public life you are still too young.

*Neale.

Edward Lorraine.-"Are you not now speaking rather after the fashion of common prejudice? I am young, it is true; but I have outlived the pleasures of youth. I—”

Mr. Morland." But not its feelings. You are still credulous of good-still enthusiastic of impossibilities; you believe that the world may be set right-nay, that you are one of those predestined to assist in so doing."

Edward Lorraine." I will not deny that I do think there is great room for improvement, and that very likely I am deceived in my own self-estimate a common mistake, even with the most experienced; still, I am not prepared to admit, that a cause can be injured by the devotion and industry given to it by even the humblest individual."

Mr. Morland." I was thinking more of yourself. Have you not felt Mr. Delawarr's conduct very severely?"

Edward Lorraine." I have: I put my own personal interests quite out of the question; but I cannot forgive a man that I so respected and admired, for being the one to shew me that my respect and my admiration were given to an acted part-not the real character."

Mr. Morland.- "Your own are my best