the blue room your ladyship well knows my master never goes into; and that it has been, for that very reason, filled with all the packing-cases of beautiful dresses that last came from Paris; there is the pelisse lined with real sable hangs there, and the new Cachemere shawl, and the Neapolitan hat, and the Jewish turban, from Paris just arrived, that your lady. ship tried on last night, and looked so beautiful in; and then there is the Spanish mantle, and that divine French hat almost covered with real marabouts, and the "

"Ob, hold your tongue!" interrupted lady Emily, with a sigh, and a tone of voice that seemed to imply she was half fainting; "I want to know how these, and twenty more things of the same kind, are to be paid for? However, it is impossible to put this troublesome this this intruyes, yes, it must come out she is just now both troublesome and an intruder; yet I do think I

shall

shall love her dearly. What must I do? why there is not another spare bed in the house; for those odious people that my husband pays such court to, because he happens to have great expectations from them, are expected in town every hour, and we, who are living on credit, are to receive, support, and make much of the whole set."

"If I might be so bold, my lady, to remark," said Harrison, "there is a room even with the attics, formerly your lady. ship's nursery it would make a capital bedroom; and then there is the beautiful light closet joining to it, as would serve charmingly for a dressing-room; and you know, my lady, it is reckoned very wholesome for young ladies from the country to sleep in the upper story.”

"Pray,” said lady Emily, haughtily, "who told you that this young lady was from the country? you happen to be out in your guesses, for she is, I find, as elegant, accomplished, and high-bred,

as any lady need be; and she shall be high lodged, for your lofty plan is not a bad one-but, oh Heavens! now I think on it, there is no furniture there."

"Well but, my lady, will not the upholsterer fit it up for you in a few days ?"

"A few days! she will be here to

morrow."

"And I am sure that Browne will get it done, my lady, by to-morrow afternoon, complete and in good taste, if I go to him directly, and tell him it is expressly by your ladyship's orders."

"Yes, yes, I know what you mean; if I become expressly security for his payment, then the flinty fellow will oblige me, as he calls it. What am I to do? he will not trust the colonel with so much as a single hall chair; and my next quarterly payment, besides my trumpery pinmoney allowance, is all condemned, and half of the next quar

terly

terly allowance after that; and how am I to clothe myself?"

"Never mind, my lady; give Browne a bill at six months, and if you cannot pay it, or master will not, plead your co

verture."

"Ah, but you know, Harrison, though I do run in debt, sometimes unavoidably, that my disposition, like the early education I received, has always prompted me to be as just as I possibly could; nor would I be guilty of the dishonest trick you propose. However, Harrison, go; and if you can manœuvre so as to get him to trust the colonel for the fitting up of these apartments, so much the better he ought to do it, for it is to oblige my husband I-But then I dare not ask him, for though he carefully avoids mentioning the blue room, and never goes into it, yet he might, much wonder at my asking to fit up another

apartment for his protegée, when we

have

have already such a splendid one for a single lady."

产

Now Harrison felt that her eyes were completely opened." The colonel's protegée ! Oh, no doubt it was his natural daughter; her lady had hinted as much; and, perhaps, Harrison communed with herself, this incident, which vexed her so much at first, might turn out greatly to her advantage. Certainly her lady was the most fashionable wife in the world; but she did not think be. fore that she was so blindly complying, as she well knew, with every other ser vant in the house, that nothing seemed to please her better than when she was thwarting her husband every hour. "Well, my lady," said she," there is not a minute to be lost, therefore, if you please, I will go immediately to Browne."

Ah, do, my good girl, go instantly," said her ladyship, " for if he contrives to get the furniture in without much bustle, when my husband is out of the

way,

he

may