take the name of Dashwood (a name which after my Henry's death I would never hear without emotion) and as I was conscious ofhaving no right to that of Annesley, I droptall thoughts of either, &^^have made it a point ofbearing only my Christinan¹ one since my Father's death." She paused. "Oh! my dearMiſs Jane (said I) how infinitely am I obligedto you for so entertaining a Story! You can::not think how it has diverted me! Buthave you quite done?"

"I have only to add my dear Sophia, thatmy Henry's elder Brother dieing about thesame time, Lady Bridget became a Widow like myself, and as we had always lovedeach other in idea from the high Character in which we had ever been spoken of, though we had never met, we determined to live together. We wrote to one another on the same subject by the same post, so exactly