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 then, you will have the goodness, according to what you know of her intentions and desire, to palliate what you may deem necessary to repeat."

"Ah, poor Miss Joddrel!" said Ellis, in a melancholy tone," and is this the success of my embassy?"

"Did you, then, wish—" Harleigh began, with a quickness of which he instantly felt the impropriety, and changed his phrase into, "Did you, then, expect any other?"

"I was truly sorry to be entrusted with the commission."

"I easily conceive, that it is not such a one as you would have given! but there is a dangerous singularity in the character of Miss Joddrel, that makes her prone to devote herself to whatever is new, wild, or uncommon. Even now, perhaps, she conceives that she is the champion of her sex, in shewing it the road,—a dangerous road!—to a new walk in life. Yet,—these eccentricities set apart,—how rare are her qua-