being a young lady of good family, who came over with me from France."

Ellis, without hesitation, consented; and Harleigh handed her to the chaise, Mrs. Maple herself not knowing how to object to that civility, as the servants of Mrs. Howel were; waiting to attend their lady's guest. "How chappy, how relieved," cried he, in conducting her out, "will you feel in obtaining, at last, a little reprieve from the narrow prejudice which urges this cruel treatment!"

"You must not encourage me to resentment," cried she, smiling, "but rather bid me, as I bid myself; when I feel it rising, subdue, it by recollecting my strange—indefinable situation in this family!"