gone, and found she was gone to spend two days with a friend of hers in the country.

"And gone without letting me know it, or taking leave of me!" he exclaimed. "Oh, Fanny !"

But had he known Fanny's motives he would have been less unhappy. The truth was, that during that paroxysm .of jealousy. which had urged him to enlist, he had neglected to visit. Fanny as constantly as usual, and when he had visit ed her, he had behaved in so strange a manner, that her pride was wounded t and while Fanny had been hesitating whether to accept her friend's invitation into the country, or not, and was wishing to consult Lewellyn's inclinations on thế subject, he rushed out of his father's house, as I have described above, and neither turned his head to look at her window as he passed, nor did he stop to speak to her, though she had gone to the

door and called after him. Indeed he did not hear her; but Fanny did not know that, and, in a moment of pique, she consented to accept the offered seat in the young farmer's cart: and, pleased with the idea of piquing Lewellyn's feelings in her turn, she set off for the country.

His feelings were, indeed, but too much alive to this seeming proof of indifference in the woman on whom he so fondly and fatally doted; and without daring to encounter again that evening the mournful faces which awaited him at home, he retired to his chamber, and spent a long and sleepless night in self-reproach and jealous agonies.

The next morning a new trial awaited him. He was ordered to join that day a detachment of the regiment at a town about five miles distant, and Fanny was not to return till late the next day and this overwhelming idea made him insensible to the loud lamentations of his pa

rents at the idea of parting with him, and to the silent grief of Mary. But at length the feelings of natural affection resumed their sway over him; and he could not blame either Mary or his father, while they cursed the-day when a regiment of soldiers first entered their quiet town, and led its peaceful inhabitants into new dangers and new temptations.

But tears and lamentations were vain; and at the appointed hour he was forced to tear himself from his distressed family, and no consoling thoughts accompanied him on his route.

He must, he considered, be henceforth at the disposal of others; and be forced, perhaps, to leave the woman whom he adored, (and on whose constancy he, even while present with her, placed no great reliance,) to the addresses of others,-and her attachment to him to all dangers and assaults, of absence and of distance! And. why had he done this?-That his mistress

might see him in her favourite dress, and that he might fear no rival in a soldier. But now he was to be removed from her sight, and she would not see him at all in those habiliments which he had assumed merely for the purpose of appearing to advantage in her eyes: and, in the bitter ness of his heart, he regretted that he had refused his father's offer of purchas ing his discharge.

On his arrival at the place of rendezyous his hopes were revived, and his inquietude calmed, by the welcome information, that in two days' time the detachment would be marched into his native town; and he, in full regimentals, ap pear before his delighted mistress.

Fanny, in the meanwhile, returned home; and, being informed by her aunt that it was reported that Lewellyn had enlisted, and was gone to join his regiment at some distant town, her pride yielded to apprehensive attachment, and she ran

over to his father's house to know the truth of the report. But the moment she saw Mary's countenance her fortitude forsook her, and she was unable to ask a single question; and, faintly articulating "I see it is but too true, then!" she sunk into a chair and burst into tears.

"What do you cry for, girl?" said the father: "You do not pretend to be sorry, I hope, for what is all your doing?" "My doing!" exclaimed Fanny: "What do you mean?"

"Why, you must know," replied the mother, "that my son is gone for a soldier, merely to please you!"

"To please me!" cried Fanny :-“ Į solemnly declare that this rash deed was wholly without my knowledge, and quite contrary to my wishes.”

"Indeed!" cried both the parents.
"Indeed-So help me God!"

"Then you are willing," said Mary, no