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heart is prone to fecl, you are far from imagining with what deep concern the rccital of your woes has affccted me—the impression will remain as long as life. What! must I have a secrct, nay even a thought revcrscd from you—from you who have a right after what you have intrusted me with, to scrutinize my very soul? but as I told you before, and as my foreboding heart apprehended, such is the nature of my woes, that I anı doomed to conceal them in eternal silence. Be not offended, charming friend, at a silcncc whieh is my grcatest torment. You are very unhappy; but I am more unhappy still. I'll be your constant companion; I'll endeavour to mitigate your sorrows, and help to case you in an employment too laborious for your delicatc frame. Let me be a partaker of your grief, and when I behold you wecping ovcr the tomb, I will mix my tears with yours. In her abrupt departure shc saw in Fonrosc's countenanee all the marks of an effected mind. Alas! said she, I have renewed his sufferings. O what suffcrings must thcy be, that can give him grounds to think himself more unhappy than I am. No more music, no more conversation. They neither secmed to seek or shun cach other. Looks that spoke their thoughts werc all their language,—it was very exprcssive.
Whcn hc beheld her wceping over her husband's grave, he beheld her with mute attention, full of jealousy, gricf and pity, till her groans were echoed by his. A few days were past in this painful conflict, whcn Adelaide took noticc how the young man wasted away, like a blooming flower, just blasted by some malignant planet. The grief that
