Mary, however, very soon took an opportunity of stealing out of the room, to indulge in those feelings which she was not at liberty to do in the presence of her father.

The very next morning Mr. Trelawney, calling on Lord Wyndham, took his son Tanjore out of the way, on the pretext that he wanted to purchase some presents for him to take to his friends in Scotland, having first hinted to his Lordship his motives for detaining Tanjore as long as he possibly could from the presence of his fond mother; and in the evening, when they were all assembled together, he desired that the whole family would attend in his presence, to take their leave of Tanjore, every arrangement being now made for his departure at an early hour the ensuing morning.

"What, to-night, Trelawney?" anxiously inquired Mrs. Trelawney.

To which he very gravely replied,—

"Yes, my love, to-night;-to-morrow, precisely at eight o'clock, Lady Honoria's carriage will be here to fetch him. We cannot keep it waiting by any unnecessary delays, and I wish to avoid a scene which cannot do any good, but may be injurious and painful to us all. I will not set an example of weakness to my children, Rosa,—therefore I begin with my girls: Alexina, Ellen, and Mary, kiss your brother, and bid him farewell! but no tears, no nonsense,-it is absurd in a case like this."

The lovely girls trembled, but all obeyed their father.

"That's good girls," cried Mr. Trelawney; "now, William, give your hand to Tanjore, which William

accoruingly did, but was greatly affected; he felt for his mother, and would have given worlds to have been out of the room.

At length Mr. Trelawney turned towards his wife, and leading Tanjore to her side, exclaimed,—

"Now then, Rosa, shew your children a mother's fortitude, as well as you have taught them the lesson of a mother's sensibility;-be assured they will remember it, and treasure it in their hearts for the remainder of their lives."

Mrs. Trelawney instantly received the embrace of Tanjore without shedding one tear, and smilingly bid him farewell!

"Now, then, Tanjore," said Mr. Trelawney," we will go and visit your cousin Emma, and in the morning you will be ready to depart without further ceremony."

CHAPTER XIII.

"There is a form, on which these eyes
"Have often gaz'd with fond delight-

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By day that form their joy supplies,

"And dreams restore it through the night.

"There is a face, whose blushes tell
"Affections tale upon the cheek;

"But, pallid at one fond farewell,

"Proclaims more love than words can speak.
"There is a lip, which mine hath prest,

"And none had ever prest before;
"It vow'd to make me sweetly blest,
“And mine-mine only prest it more."

Lord Byron.

THE actions of Mr. Trelawney were ever prompt as his words he was well aware that under existing circumstances there was but one system of conduct that he could reasonably adopt, not only with his children, but with the mother of those children; for though he perfectly appreciated the good qualities of his beloved Rosa, yet her extreme sensibility, and softness of disposition, sometimes carried her into extremes respecting the management of her children; and as those children were now rapidly advancing to the age when they would be absolutely required to think for themselves, it was a necessary duty, as a father, to point out the path which would be most conducive to form the happiness of their future days,

and this was not to be done by permitting the indulgence of that excess of sensibility, which too frequently leads, not only to involuntary error, but which too often destroys the charm of existence altogether; and Mr. Trelawney considered wisely, for had his children been born in poverty, instead of affluence and splendour, he well knew that sensibility would have been a fatal gift, towards their progress through the thorny way of life; and for this reason he wished to repress it in time, that it might not hereafter prove a dangerous enemy to their repose, when occasion called them to exert that fortitude and philosophy so necessary in a transitory state of mortal existence.

But this Mr. Trelawney proposed to do in the mildest and gentlest terms that was possible,—not to wound, but to convince the feelings of the woman he adored; for, even in the most impassioned moments of his love for Rosa, he was obliged to acknowledge that the great warmth of her sensibility sometimes subdued the judgment of her mind: it was a fault which probably had been too much indulged by her own fond parents when she was a child, for often had her father exclaimed, in their moments of unreserved conversation together,

"My Rosa has but one fault, and that is her excessive sensibility; she has been our favorite child, and we neglected too late to repress it. Would to heaven that she had the caution, the prudence of our Rebecca and our Henry; and yet, Trelawney, she is by far the most engaging of all our children. I can reprove Rebecca whenever I think she is in fault, I can take Henry to task, but I cannot be severe with

my little Rosa; she flies to my arms, she clings around my neck, she is dissolved in tears, and I devour her with kisses."

And it was even so,-Rosa had ever been the dar ling of her father's heart, and even her very faults considered with indulgence; and thus formed, thus softened by maternal kindness, she came to the arms of her husband, and certainly he was not likely to love her less, nor did he; but there were times when even Trelawney would not suffer his fondness to supersede the influence of reason and his better judgment, and when Rosa became a mother, he watched with a careful and zealous eye over the faults of his children, and perceived that the two younger ones, Tanjore and Mary, inherited all the softness of their mother's disposition, with some of the leading and distinguishing traits of that excessive sensibility which would very shortly require a check. Mary, therefore, was consigned, as early as possible, from the nursery to the hands of Mrs. Pelham; and Tanjore to the management of Mr. Fothersgill; in which Mrs. Trelawney was too often suffered to interfere: she could not bear that they should be corrected when they were so extremely young, and the consequence was, that Tanjore and Mary were by far more refractory and difficult to manage than the rest of the children;-and with Emma Bradbury the same system had been adopted; no one dared to check Emma in her rising propensities, had they been ever so absurd, on pain of displeasure to her aunt; and with Emma not even Mr. Trelawney would have any thing to do in respect to the management of her education, and, happily for her, she gave them but little trouble :