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 17 ome hesitation - Mariette you have learned the English language;" a thought hung over him which he could not articulate : and all the harassments of a pro- racted parting might have been experienced, had not a anel of his comrades arrived to hurry him away; Al- mptly, and holding his hands over his eyes, he left the house; and the noise of many voices dying gradually way, told the cottagers that he was gone for ever. It was long before the grief of the widow and the daughter ceased to be violent. Days passed on-weeks -months, -and every day called up a remembrance filicting as it was regular. The feelings of Mariette, however, assumed a loftier character than grief. She was of that age when the mind is alive to all the ro- mance of life-she had seen nothing and was seeing nothing of the world—and had inhibed an attachment br the British soldier, which every day strengthened store and more. In a little summer house that Allan al erected in the garden, she was constantly lingering, nd indulging in the most Eutopian reveries. There he first formed the wild projcet of going to Britain, for t appeared to her as an enchanted land, and she thought she were only there, and only saw Barelay once more, he would be happy. "I have learned the English language were his last words," she would say---" what vails it but for his sake? Perhaps he remembers me only as the little girl who listened to his stories and his instructions, while he loves another in his own country. This may not be ;-I shall never now whether or not, -but were it not to leave my mother lonely and deso- tie, I would go to England, and search him out, and ice what he thinks of me now. Nearly two years passed on, and Mariette still in- Julged the prospect of visiting England, but was still diecked by the thought of leaving her mother, —when she afternoon a stranger, in sorry habiliments, and with body emacistel seeminingly by fatigue, called at the cottage, and begged some little refreshment. He was Kindly shown a seat at the fireside, and a little round