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 22 in the adjoining room, to speak with her. The land- lady delivered her errand bluntly enough, and Barclay, after a hundred hideous jokes had been poured upon him by his comrades, calmly entered the apartment where Mariette was standing. On seeing her, all other thoughts were lost in surprise, but soon love was trium- phant; and the meeting of two affectionate hearts--- long separated without hope-formed a scene of inde- scribable emotion. In the enthusiasm of their interview much was told. He was not married ;--- he too had suffered hardships of a peculiar nature, although not as in her case, for the object of his attachment ;-a life was still before him to repay her wonderful affection:- and it is gratifying to add, that-soon freed from his long and hard served soldiership—he returned with his beautiful wife, to the pleasant fields of France, and the more pleasant cottage of Dane Clerville.

LOVE AND TORTURE. At Glasgow in Scotland, a young gentleman being passionately in love with a young lady of superior rank and fortune, and having won her affections, the young couple found themselves under a necessity to conceal their mutual inclinations, from a dread of the violent temper of the lady's father, who aimed at nothing less than a noble alliance for his daughter. Under these circumstances, the imprudent girl per- mitted her lover to make her private nocturnal visits, the fruit of which was the loss of her honour; and hav- ing once yielded to his guilty solicitations, she afterwards made no scruple to let him pass the greatest part of the night in her chamber. This intrigue had lasted some months, and was conducted with so much care and cir- cumspection, that even the servants of the house had no suspicion of such an affair. But some neighbours passing by the house one night, saw the young man come out