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"You know this gentleman very well, then?"

"O no, madam!" she answered hastily, "I don't know him at all! he only comes here to see my brother; it would be very impertinent for me to call him an acquaintance of mine"

"Was it before your brother, then, he held this conversation with you?"

"O no, my brother would have been affronted with him, too, if he had! but he called here to enquire for him at the time when he was lost to us, andhio to Lord Vannelt's, and make excuses for him, if he had not behaved properly: but if ain! so when this gentleed him not to mention it, for my mother happened to be out, and so I saw hi?"

"No, ma'am, a very short time indeed; but I asked hi as I could, that I ht hear all he had to say about my brother"

"Have you never seen him since?"

"No, ma'am, not once! I suppose he does not know my brother is come back to us Perhaps when he does, he will call"

"Do you wish hi, "a little;--sometimes I do;--for my brother's sake"

"For your brother's sake! Ah my dear Henrietta! but tell me,--or don't tella letter? perhaps it was from this same noble friend?"

"It was not a letter,down, "it was only the cover of one to my brother"

"The cover of a letter only!--and that to your brother!--is it possible you could so ood and the wise, who see no other sort of people but those in high life, you can have no notion how they strike those that they are new to!--but I who see them seldom, and who live with people so very unlike the that belongs to them! whatever has but once been touched by their hands, I should like to lock up, and keep for ever! though if I was used to theht think less of theht Cecilia, who by them knew she only meant him, little indeed would further intimacy protect you!