fine hyson bloom was all wasted-and all this, madam, came of indulging you."

Ay, ay, that's always the way with you and 'pa," replied Kate; " you always throw all the blame of what happens wrong in the house upon me, but I warrant I wont put up with such usage much longer; for if Dicky Hobson don't marry me soon, I will accept the offer of old Simpson, who has money enough to buy half the city, and he will take me without a penny."

"But you know, Kate," said Mrs. Bridgemore," old Simpson has a son and daughter, and they say, if he marries—”

"I don't care a brass farthing what they say," interrupted Kate; "I warrant you I will never humble and put up with things as you do—I have got a good spirit of my own, and if I do marry the old fellow, and his children don't behave well, and keep civil tongues in their heads, I will soon shew them the outside of the street-door."

"To be sure this is fine talking," said Mrs. Bridgemore, "but doing, Kate, is another guess sort of thing."

"Well, you shall see," replied Kate; "you have taught me a lesson, 'ma, and depend upon it, marry when I will, and who I will, I shall never suffer a husband to be master over me-if you had plucked up a spirit when you was first married, 'pa would never have dared to order and command as he does; but when I am a wife, I will 'shew you how to manage a husband-I will let him see that I have a will, and that he shall submit to it, or I will make the house too hot to hold him.”

Mrs. Bridgemore wished she might be able to do as she said, for it was a sad life when the husband would be master and mistress; and if her dear Kate could make herself happy with old Simpson's money, why she had nothing to do but accept his offer at once, for, to be sure, it was much "better to be an old man's darling than a young man's slave," which she unfortunately had been to her sorrow.

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CHAPTER III.

"In the hour of merriment came destructionIn the peaceful hour of sleep came death."

"Is there not an angel guard, by Heaven
Deputed, to watch o'er innocence-to
Stay the roaring torrent from whelming in
Its billow-and turn aside the scorching
Flame-such guard is placed around thee, and no
Harm can touch thee."

The waters heave around me, and on high
The winds lift up their voices; I depart
Perhaps for ever, but the hour's gone by,

When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine
BYRON.

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Expectations Disappointed-Female Philosophy -Sufficient to the Day is the Evil thereof— Narrow Escape from a Fire-An awkward Detection-Truth told by Accident—A fine Lady's Projects.

THE following morning, Miss Fitzallan fully expected to see the earl of Clarisford,

to whom she resolved to state the vulgar familiarity and impertinent intrusion of the Bridgemores, and express her wish to remove where her privacy would not be rudely broken in upon, by persons whom she could by no means receive as her companions, or consent to associate with; but the morning wore away, and the earl neither came nor sent; and she had again relapsed into distressing melancholy and tears, when madame Crillon was announced. Rosella received her with hysterical joy, for she was the only person on whom her heart could place dependence, or she could look upon as a friend.

Miss Fitzallan's tear-swoln eyes did not escape the observation of madame Crillon, who, having been made acquainted with the repulsive reception she had met from the countess of Clarisford, and the disappointment occasioned by the earl's breach of promise, was for some moments at a loss what advice to give the weeping girl, whose situation, she was constrained to confess,

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confess, was indeed extremely distressing and unfortunate. Miss Fitzallan also informed madame Crillon of the gross behaviour and impertinent intrusion of the Bridgemores, at which the animated Frenchwoman shrugged her shoulders, and protested the rudeness of John Bull was not to be borne: at length she recommended that Miss, Fitzallan should write a note to lord Clarisford, explanatory of her very unpleasant situation with the Bridge mores, and intention to remove from Lombard-street immediately; at the same time, she should request his advice respecting applying to her mother's family to receive her, that she might, as her youth and inexperience required, obtain protection, and the solace of respectable female society. This note being written, madame Crillon offered herself to be the bearer of it, as she was going on business very near Cavendish-square-an offer very gladly ac cepted by Rosella, who was certain that madame Crillon's good sense, and know

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