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 *"Pretty well, pretty well," replied the lady; "nothing extraordinary," repeating her blushes. "Pretty well!" replied the father; "by the lord Harry, miss, I believe you had not the use of your eyes. I think he's a very handsome and a very fine young man. I am sure John does not agree in your opinion, do you, John?" "Not in the opinion which she has expressed." "And besides you are to consider you are very much obliged to him; he saved you from a very bad fall." Maria now pretended some errand out of the room, and the father continued to descant upon the agreeableness of Hamilton, and his attentions to Maria and to him on finding who they were. "I don't know how it was," he said, "Maria is an excellent girl, and a daughter to my wish, and I have hardly any occasion to find fault with her, but she was silent and reserved