Do not you prefer M^r Musgrove to any man ofyour acquaintance?"

"Pray do not ask me such questions Lady Scudamore, said I turning away my head,for it is not fit for me to answer them."

"Nay my Love replied she, now you confirm my suspicions. But why Henrietta should yoube ashamed to own a well-placed Love, orwhy refuse to confide in me?"

"I am not ashamed to own it; said I taking Courage. I do not refuse to confide in you or blush to say that I do love your cousinM^r Musgrove, that I am sincerely attached to him, for it is no disgrace to love a hand::some Man. If he were plain indeed I mighthave had reason to be ashamed of a paſsion which must have been mean since the Object would have been unworthy. But with such a figure & face, & such beautiful