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Rh. Love is at once the best temptation for a hermit, and the best cure for a misanthrope. All the evening he thought her most fascinating; but when, on his departure, both Mr. Stanmore and Lady Lauriston pressed the renewal of his visit, she looked towards him with a sweet, sudden glance of hope—and then dropped her eyes with such an exquisite mixture of eagerness and embarrassment, he felt she was quite irresistible. Vanity is love's visier, and often more powerful than his master. Lord Etheringhame rode home slowly and musingly. A thousand delicious sensations quickened the beating of his pulses;—a beautiful face floated before him—a delicate voice sounded, fairy-like, in his ear; all of imagination which had lain dormant sprang up again—like colours in a painting brought from some dusty corner into a clear, bright light. We talk of the folly of dreams—the waking and the vain—we should rather envy their happiness:—analyse their materials—foresee their end—and what remains? Vanity and vexation of spirit. Much it would have added to Lord Etheringhame's enjoyment, could he have known that his feelings were being calculated upon by a