with surprise, for he saw that his favorite had been received with some singular marks of kindness, and seemed very unwilling to quit the side of her fair and gentle companion. Tanjore gazed, and could have sighed his soul away, but he quickly withdrew his eyes from an object who of all others he felt it dangerous to behold, and in a quick and hurried tone of voice exclaimed,—

"I hope, Emma, that Juno has not been troublesome to you; I never missed her till within these ten minutes, and could not imagine whither she had taken so rapid a flight."

"Why do you know that she came into my dressingroom," cried Emma, "when she was no sooner patted and caressed than she wanted to remain there."

"And is it not natural, dear Emma," cried Tanjore, wholly taken off his guard, by the kind manner in which she had spoken to him; "is it not natural to wish to remain with those who treat us kindly?"

There was something bewitchingly tender in the voice of Tanjore as he uttered this, and as his eyes were bent on hers with an expression which spoke unutterable volumes; poor Emma felt the necessity of immediately departing from his presence, or remain and seal her fate for ever, by betraying the power he had over her feelings, and she answered as if she was in the utmost hurry to dispatch some commands which had been imposed on her, by saying,

"Yes, and it is equally natural to avoid those whom duty bids us only to esteem, to respect, to admire, but not to" Emma paused,—she trem. bled, her eyes encountered the impassioned glance of the too conscious Tanjore, who in this wild agitated

conflict of his tumultuous feelings, just snatched the hand of Emma one moment to his lips, and the next resigned it, mournfully exclaiming, as he hastily quitted her,

"Be not offended, Emma; it is the last proof you will ever know of the weakness of him who feeling it a crime to adore you, feels also that it is his duty to resign you; he does resign you; but the same duty does not bid me to forget you,-I never can, I never will, and so, angels bless-ever bless you."

Tanjore and his pointer now made a sudden and precipitate retreat, leaving the beauteous Emma looking like the statue which enchants the world, so fair and rounded were her polished limbs, so angelic and yet so pure was the expression of her countenance, and well might it be said, that she had done weeping, but

"Her eyelash yet

"Lay silken heavy on her fillied cheek,

"And on its fringe a tear, like a lone star,

Shining upon the rich Hyacinth skirts

"O'the western clouds, that veil the April even,

"Glittering above the gleam of tender blue,

"That widen'd as the shower clears off from heaven.

"The beauty wak'd,—a sudden beam of soul
"Flashed from her eye, and lit the vestal's cheek
"Into one crimson, and exhal'd the air."

How long Emma would have remained in the position in which Tanjore had left her was uncertain ; but the voice of little Mary, who was coming in search of her, quickly roused her from one of the most delightful reveries her imagination had ever dwelt on.

Never had Emma heard the confession from the

lips of Tanjore that he loved her, and though that love was hopeless, and he declared that he had resigned her, yet he had also pronounced that he would never forget her; and it created a sensation of so transporting a nature, that she was lost in contemplation, when the voice of Mary awakened her from her pleasing trance. Great anxiety was depicted in the countenance of Mary when she approached her lovely cousin.

"Dear Emma," cried she, " you cannot conceive how frightened Mrs. Pelham and all of us have been about you."

"Frightened, my love, and about me!" replied Emma; "and what could possibly have alarmed you so much on my account?"

"Why, you know we went to your dressing-room and you were not there; and then I ran into your bed-chamber and you were not there; and then I asked my brother Tanjore if he had seen you, and he said no; and then we all began to be alarmed," cried Mary, almost panting for breath.

"And did Tanjore say that he had not seen me ?" enquired Emma, quite rejoiced that he had taken so necessary a precaution, and that she had not been seen conversing with him

"Yes, indeed he did," replied Mary; "and I thought he had not, because he had his great dog with him, and I knew you would not suffer him to come near you with his great dog, for fear it should bite you."

"Well, my love, let us instantly go to Mrs. Pelham,” cried Emma, “and thank her for her kind anxiety on