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 some traces of small pox,—but they do not signify a whit,—the girl is quite above them,—she has something grand in her manner,—looks like an empress,—every where takes or rather receives precedency; and then for her knowledge, why she is fit for a professorship; she is said to be very reserved, but those who know her well, say her manners are only the natural result of her constant self-possession; she is aware that she knows more than most people around her do, but she does not boast of it, only she has not learned the art of stooping to a level with those whose minds are not so richly stored. Papa has saved a great deal of money, which will make her and another very comfortable.—In quarto”

Here the coachman came in to tell his passengers—among whom was our reporter—that the horses were put in, and if they wished to reach the next stage before night, no time was to be lost. So we instantly rose from table; but at the same moment I had formed my plan, and slipping into the adjoining room, I invited Mr Sander to follow me for a moment.

I now told the Recorder very privately, that I happened to be the intimate friend of the rich heir of whom he had just been speaking,—that important business had prevented him from coming himself to take possession of his grandmother’s property, but that he had given me a full power of attorney to act in his name,—that I was very solicitous to fulfil the will of the deceased to its very letter, and above all to implement in name of her grandson every engagement into which she might have entered, and at the same time acknowledge any small obligation which death had prevented her from recompensing in her usual genteel manner,—that consequently I could not overlook the claims which he himself had on account of the extraordinary trouble he had been put to in arranging her settlement and codicile.

Here I slipped ten louis d’ors into the Recorder’s hand, and by an act of such unexpected generosity almost threw him into a catalepsy. Rh