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 with the idea of a more important meage than a alutation from her mother, or an enquiry after her health. She lifted up her lovely eyes, and recognized the tranger, who lay at her feet. Wonder and amazement produced an involuntary movement; he tarted like a roe, which takes flight on the appearance of danger. He eized her delicate hand with rapture; but he repelled him with an angry geture. ‘Away from me, perfidious man! it is enough that thou hat once deceived me; wouldt thou practie the ame arts a econd time?’ Friedbert had looked for uch a quall at the onet: he was not therefore overet. He brought the defence of his amorous theft, with the talent of peruaion peculiar to lovers, home to Callita’s boom, in which he hoped to find a powerful advocate; and as nothing is more eaily excued, than offences committed from exces of paion, if the parties are agreed in the main, even hould the dipute relate to a weightier offence than