would כל ye ?" No, certainly," anfwered the wife; and as for betraying her, come what will on't, » nobody can blame us. It is what any body would do in our cafe. دو While our politic landlord, who had not, we fee, undeservedly the reputation of great wisdom among his neighbours, was engaged in debating this matter with himself ( for he paid little attention to the opinion of his wife) news arrived, that the rebels had given the Duke the flip, and had got a day's march towards London; and foon after arrived a famous Jacobite Squire, who, with great joy in his countenance, shook the landlord by the hand, faying. "All's our own, boy: ten thousand honest Frenchmen are landed in Suffolk. Old England for ever! Ten thousand French, my brave lad! I am going to tap away directly." دو رو כל This news determined the opinion of the wife man, and he refolved to make his court to the young Lady, when she arofe; for he had now (he faid) difcovered that she was no other than Madam Jenny Cameron herself. A very CHA P. I I I. short Chapter, in which however is a Sun, a Moon, a Star, and an Angel. THE fun (for he keeps very good hours at this time of the year) had been fome time retired to reft, when Sophia arose, greatly refreshed by her fleep; which, fhort as it was, nothing but her extreme fatigue could have occafioned; for though she had told her maid, and perhaps herself too, that fhe was perfectly eafy, when the left Upton; yet it is certain her mind was a little affected with that malady which is attended with all the reftlefs fymptoms of a fever, and is perhaps the very diftemper which physicians mean (if they mean any thing) by the fever on the fpirits. Mrs. Fitzpatrick likewise left her bed at the fame time; and having fummoned her maid, immediately dreffed herself. She was really a very pretty woman, and had fhe been in any other company but that of Sophia, might have been thought beautiful; but when Mrs. Honor of her own accord attended (for her Mistress would not suffer her to be waked) and had equipped our Heroine, the charms of Mrs. Fitzpatrick, who had performed the office of the morning ftar, and had preceded greater glories, fhared the fate of that ftar, and were totally eclipsed the moment thofe glories fhone forth. Perhaps Sophia never looked more beautiful than fhe did at this inftant. We ought not therefore to condemn the maid of the inn for her hyperbole ; who when she defcended, after having lighted the fire, declared, and ratified it with an oath, that if ever there was an angel upon earth, she was now above stairs. Sophia had acquainted her coufin with her defign to go to London; and Mrs. Fitzpatrick had agreed to accompany her; for the arrival of her husband at Upton had put an end to her defign of going to Bath, or to her aunt Western. They had therefore no fooner finished their tea, than Sophia proposed to set out, the moon then shining extremely bright, and as for the froft fhe defied it; nor had she any of those apprehenfions which many young Ladies would have felt at travelling by night; for fhe had as we have before obferved fome little degree of natural courage; and this her prefent fenfations, which bordered fomewhat on defpair, greatly increased. Befides, as she had already travelled twice with fafety, by the light of the moon, she was the better emboldened to trust to it a third time. The difpofition of Mrs. Fitzpatrick was more timorous; for though the greater terrors had conquered the lefs, and the prefence of her husband had driven her away at fo unfeasonable an hour from Upton; yet being now arrived at a place where fhe thought herself fafe from his purfuit, these leffer terrors of I know not what, operated fo ftrongly, that she earnestly entreated her coufin to stay till the next morning, and not expose herself to the dangers of travelling by night. Sophia, who was yielding to an excess, when she could neither laugh nor reason her coufin out of these apprehenfions, at last gave way to them. Perhaps, indeed, had fhe known of her father's arrival at Upton, it might have been more difficult to have perfuaded her; for as to Jones, fhe had, I am afraid, no great horror at the thoughts of being overtaken by him; nay, to confess the truth, I believe fhe rather wished than feared it; though I might honeftly enough have concealed this wifh from the Reader, as it was one of those fecret fpontaneous emotions of the foul, to which the reafon is often a ftranger. When our young Ladies had determined to remain all that evening in the inn, they were attended by the landlady, who defired to know what their Ladyfhips would be pleased to eat. Such charms were there in the voice, in the manner, and in the affable deportment of Sophia, that she ravished the landlady to the highest degree; and that good woman, concluding that fhe had attended Jenny Cameron, became in a moment a ftaunch Jacobite, and wifhed heartily well to the young Pretender's caufe, from the great sweetness and affability with which she had been treated by his fuppofed Mistress. The two coufins began now to impart to each other their reciprocal curiofity, to know what extraordinary accidents on both fides occafioned this fo ftrange and unexpected meeting. At last Mrs. Fitzpatrick, having obtained of Sophia a promife of communicating likewife in her turn, began to relate what the Reader, if he is defirous to know her history, may read in the enfuing Chapter. CHA P. I V. The Hiftory of Mrs. Fitzpatrick. MRS. Fitzpatrick, after a filence of a few moments, fetching a deep figh, thus began: "It is natural to the unhappy to feel a fecret » concern in recollecting thofe periods of their lives which have been moft delightful to them. The remembrance of past pleasures affects us with a kind of tender grief, like what we fuffer for departed friends; and the ideas of both may be faid to haunt our imaginations. دو دو دو وو دو دو دو "For this reafon, I never reflect without for"row on those days (the happiest far of my life) which we spent together, when both were under the care of my aunt Western. Alas! why ,, are Mifs Graveairs, and Mifs Giddy no more? You remember, I am fure, when we knew each other by no other names. Indeed you gave me the latter appellation with too juft caufe. I have رو دو |