own right. Nay more,-that in the humbler walks of life, if a man be tempted to marry for love, he takes care to make his poor dowerless wife pay the penalty of his generosity by reproaches for the remainder of her days."

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I'm afraid there is a good deal of truth in your strictures," said the duke.

"Let us

hope the vengeance is not reciprocal; and that Herbert's fair lady of ten thousand will deal mercifully with her purchase."

"Your friend has hooked his prize then?" inquired Cleveland, carelessly.

"Unless his prospects were pretty sure, he would scarcely, I should imagine, have undertaken so long a journey," replied the duke. "Even her mother will probably be better pleased with the attentions of a member of her own family, than the addresses of a set of threadbare Sicilian princes or cut-throat Neapolitan dukes."

"But surely there are plenty of young Englishmen travelling in Italy," cried Cleve

land "to contend for the prize. Is the damsel, for instance, of too humble a degree to become Duchess of Attleborough or Lady John Howard?"

"Those names, my dear fellow, may chance to be bespoken," replied his grace with a smile. But Lord John looked displeased and said nothing.

"Excuse my Redskin ignorance if what I have suggested is preposterous," added Cleveland noticing the overclouding of his brow. "I am, you know, but a savage, a postscript to the last edition of the 'Last of the Mohicans.""

"But there are other pretendants free to take the lists," added the Duke of Attleborough cheerfully, as if to set the misgivings of his transatlantic friend at rest. "Here is Cleve, for instance," (at the sound of his own name, Jervis suddenly started forward as if previously absorbed in reverie,)" Cleve, who has perhaps as yet

elected no lady for his thoughts. He looks indignant! Nevertheless were the candidate now at the head of the poll any other than my friend Herbert, I should be apt to say to Jervis, like the Duke to his guards at Waterloo,-"Up, lad, and at her!”

"Not if your grace were aware that my obligations to the Davenport family are such, and such my own humbleness of origin, that the mere supposition were an offence to the young lady!"—observed Jervis, his usually pale face becoming suddenly suffused.

"Rubbish!"-cried Cleveland, impetuously shrugging his shoulders. "The love of a good-looking young fellow, with good brains in his head, and a good heart in his breast, an offence to any girl on the face of the earth?-Rubbish!"—

"I, at least, should understand the extent of my own presumption," replied Jervis, coldly. "Nay, so sacredly do I regard the Davenport family in the light of benefac

tors, that I admit it to be painful to me even to hear the-the young lady's name rendered the object of pleasantry."

"Then by Jove we'll say no more about her!" - cried the good-natured Duke of Attleborough.

And it was no sacrifice to change the subject of conversation. For at that moment Mrs Cleveland, looking like some beautiful statue of antiquity animated by sudden intelligence, entered the room to absorb the attention of all present.

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CHAPTER II.

Ne me parlez pas de ces villes dont l'antiquité est fardée comme une femme de cour. Que m'importent ces coutours sans physionomie, ce doux langage, sans style arrêté, -ces grands monumens peuplés d'ombres, et ces mystères sans croyances? Autant vaudrait répandre des fleurs sur un cercueil vide et sonore!-L'Italie est connue, parcourue, épuisée, profanée. Elle n'a plus de secrets pour vos rêveries.

Even in the instant of repair and health
The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave,
On their departure, most of all show evil.

JANIN.

SHAKSPEARE.

IMPOSSIBLE to feel more strongly, more humbly, or more proudly than Jervis Cleve, that the object of the education bestowed upon him was to render him a scholar for the sake of scholarship. Devoid of all pretension to figure in society above his sphere under a sanction beyond his rights and pre