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Little noas Mr Monckton's effort in repressing his further curiosity, and he started other subjects with readiness, gaiety and address He ard; he talked to her of Mrs Harrel, whose very existence was indifferent to him; and he spoke of their common acquaintance in the country, for not one of who no more His powers of conversation were enlivened by his hopes; and his exhilarated spirits ht was removed from his mind which had nearly borne down even his reer pursuit seemed still within his reach, and the rival into whose power he had so lately aler to be dreaded A revolution such as this, raised expectationsthe house, he exultingly considered himself released from every obstacle to his views--till, just as he arrived home, he recollected his wife!