"Oh! you can have no idea how wretched it madehim. He would not have gone this Month, if myFather had not insisted on it; Edward told me so himself yesterday. He said that he wished with all his heart he had never promised to go abroad, for that he repented it more and more every day; that it interfered with all his other schemes, and that since Papa had spoke to him about it, he was more unwill::ing to leave Chetwynde than ever."

"Did he really say all this? And why wouldyour father insist upon his going? "His leaving England interfered with all his other plans, andhis Conversation with M^r Stanley had made himstill more averse to it." What can this Mean?"

"Why that he is exceſsively in love with you to be sure; what other plans can he have? And I suppose my father said that if he had not been going abroad, he should have wishedhim to marry you immediately. –But I must