generally requiring a stimulus of such kind as usually load the modern breakfast-table. Lady Emily partook of the deviled gizzards, legs, &c. of a young turkey, and the party did not rise from their first repast till near three in the afternoon, when major Featherington called, to entreat the honour of escorting the ladies to the Cosmorama. Elegant pelisses, ermine tippets, and bonnets of the most fashionable kind, were sufficient to prevent the necessity of making any change in the dress of these distinguished-looking females; but Clarissa would rather have employed this her first morning in her new abode, in the communication of friendship with her dear Julia. She could only now add to the letter she had already written, that though she found her guardian a much older man than she expected, yet that nothing could be more delightful than the harmony that subsisted between him him and his yet-blooming, fascinating wife." Surely," added she," it is by witnessing such a happy union that is the cause why so many young females are desirous of becoming wives; and, perhaps, many an imprudent match is hastily made, in the firm conviction that they shall be equally happy. Heaven make you so, my dear friend, in every state! I could write a volume, but I am so pressed for time, that I must put off all I have to say, till I can find leisure to write to you again." A gentleman of colonel Ardenbrooke's acquaintance joined the party at the Cosmorama, together with the earl of Carlingford; these paid their court only to lady Emily, it being always an implicit rule with Mr. Mansfield, the gentleman who accompanied his lordship, only to attend to the lady whom he expected and hoped would pay most attention to him, namely, the mistress of a splendid mansion and a good table; while the earl earl of Carlingford, one of the proudest and poorest of our peers, never noticed any one, man, woman, nor child, that had not a title. Major Featherington therefore attached himself to Clarissa, and explained to her the antiquities of Memnon's palace, and other beautiful ruins, &c. ; but Clarissa, who was well informed on almost every subject relative to history, both ancient and modern, found the major by no means au fait in his elucidations; while he fancied he excited the wonder of the pretty young thing by his great erudition, and finding her too polite, or rather too kind to contradict him, and make him feel silly, went on till he talked absolute nonsense. Clarissa thought it really a pity he should be so ill informed on some subjects, as he was really a handsome man, and very much the gentleman in his behaviour; and though she would have liked his present deportment better, had he he not interlarded his conversation with so many gallant compliments addressed to her beauty, and a few tender pressures of her hand; yet, as there was nothing to offend, and as she had seen something of the general conduct of military men, and had found it was usual for them to adopt that kind of behaviour on many occasions, she took no exception at it, but conversed with the frankness natural to her disposition. She was sorry, however, to find, as they rode home, that lady Emily appeared to be seriously indisposed; she spake not a word, but leaned back in her carriage, with every mark of suffering on her beautiful countenance; a faint, but forced smile, accompanied her reply to the anxious inquiries of Clarissa, as she said—“ I shall be better if you do not speak to me. I am subject to these indispositions-violent while they last, but soon over." "Your ladyship is indeed subject to them," said the major, rather sarcastically. Clarissa |