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 N° 2.

THE GUARDIAN.

fojourned at fir Ambroſe's for the months of

June, July, and Auguſt. I remember very well that it was on the 4th of July, in the

year 1674,

that I was reading in an arbour to my friend , and ſtoptLay obſek,'rvinſaid of abyſudyou denr boo g he tend. andnotletat us he,did

take a turn in the graſs walk, for I have ſome thing to ſay to you. After a filence for about

forty yards, walking both of us with our eyes downward, one big to hear, the other to ſpeak a matter of great importance,fir Ambroſe expreſſed himſelf to this effect :

My good friend ,' ſaid he,

you may have obſerved that from the firſt

moment I was in your company at Mr. Willis's chambers at Univerſity College, I ever after ſought and courted you ; that inclination towards you has improved from fimilitude of manners, if I may ſo fay, when I tell you I have not obſerved in any man a greater candour and ſimplicity of mind than in yourſelf. You are a man that are not inclined to launch into the world, but prefer

ſecurity and eaſe in a collegiate or ſingle life, to going into the cares which neceſſarily attend a public character, or that of a maſter of a family. You ſee within, my fon Marmaduke, my only child ; I have a thouſand anxieties upon me

concerning him, the greater part of which I would transfer to you, and when I do ſo, I would

make it in plain Engliſh worth your while.'

He

would not let me ſpeak, but proceeded to inform me, that he had laid the whole ſcheme of his af fairs upon that foundation.

As ſoon as we went

into the houſe, he gave me a bill upon his gold