loins, original, inclusive, profound, and oh, how fervent That it were fiction ! No. 2.-Abscond! Must thou go, my glorious—? BYRON.-From the French. Villiers whirled into another apartment-his own. The just-past entirely possessed him. It assumed the form of a fiend, and grew palpably before him. It was no time for imagination: here was something of the too-practical, the tooreal, the sternly blood-searching, the heart's-lifeprobing. On his brow the perspiration oozed out. He made an effort to recover, and rung the. bell. "Round with Fencer!" From an escritoir, he transferred some papers and a money-order to his person; penned a note for Herbert, accepting a berth to France, and appointing re-junction at Lord Clevedon's. "And now for stoicism! the sole safe-guard of bliss. Pride and Apathy! be henceforward my quest." A girl of seven stole in. "Brother, what's the matter?" "Ah, Gertrude !"-Ah, Pride and Apathy! -She climbed his knee. "Tears?" she said, mournfully; "dear brother, what is this for ?" "Nothing, Gertrude. Never heed. It will soon be over. But kiss me. And see what I have for you"-binding her neck with a chain and small gold heart. "Preserve it-mine-till asked again; unless, when away, you cease to care for me." "Away? what shall separate us, for years on years? And, meanwhile, Emile, we'll roam amongst our flowers, and you'll judge my copy and my pencilings, and I'll sing you songs that, I'm certain, will make you merry, and oh! we'll be so pleasant! And now," continued the comforter, "what has distressed you? and let us try (she appended proudly) if I cannot remove it. Mrs. Vernon whispered Captain Herbert that nothing was impossible to Love! and I minded her, on account of your mopings, which torment me. But now we'll remove them! Here! let us try"-coaxingly-"you won't refuse Gertrude." "Well, you old-fashioned thing! for your sake, we'll have no more. My own dear, dear sister, God defend you! through the still night and noisier day: fill you! in the crowded saloon and vacant solitude: conduct you! from a tiny, dutiful, and loving child, into a high-souled, happy, and virtuous woman! "Earth, I defy thee! and ye, who disfigure it! While vouchsafed her whom I may turn to for the solace Man denies Misfortune, do your worst! I defy you all!" But, careering down the avenue, reckless and desperate exhilaration succeeded. The entrance was closed. Its white bars streaked the cloudy Beyond. At his clatter, bolted their porter from his lodge-which now illumined the gate-to witness Villiers flying-over, and vanishing. Vanishing on the cross-road to the Evretts'. Infatuation he was inadequate to repel infatuation that appeared, even to himself, when he reflected on the month previous, to occupy intermediate roost betwixt madness and idiocy. No. 3.-Something more of Morley's morals.The Oath of Blood. There is a wondrous mystery in this. BEHN.-The Emperor of the Moon. Harry Morley had, of late, been less remiss at Shetly. Blunt to the Colonel; ingenuously coinciding with his peculiarities; not alone extolling the maintenance of probity at all odds, but indirectly commending himself by lament for its common infraction, and, further, excommunicating its most compelled violators :-Towards Grace, coupling gentleness and decision; unpremeditately, but unexceptionably, discharging those petits soins whose sum is so effective; expatiating on themes she delighted-in-those linked with the race's well-being-deploring its degeneracy (as though the burthen of his existence), and injecting a somewhat Utopian, but sufficiently plausible, hint for counteraction; when, pertinent citation of precise culprit adduced, the combat between his indignance and commiseration being a treat not-to-be-enjoyed-at-all-times and never-tobe-viewed-to-superior-advantage-elsewhere; but, from the advisability of the former's predominance with the uncle, and the latter's with the cousin, when together, skilfully letting dumbness convey to each his respective congeniality :-Towards Villiers, he was facetiously unreserved; would flatter himself, for his pocket-edition of Il Principe, with English notes and available glossary! console himself, from needing no tutor in the science du monde; value himself upon "walking into the wise-ones;" and disport himself, at such wights as disdained that particular breviary termed “the world," which embraced the "necessary doctrine and erudition of a christian man :”—in short, was in the promising nonage-wanting only a little more experience and a little less communicativeness to the majority-of a stanch supporter for the admirable republic of society as it is. And Emile? what did he at Shetly? He did the dissimilar; from Evrett, often differing diametrically-from Grace herself, not concealing conceptions adverse to hers. But he likewise did |