ing with Lord Frederick can militate against your felicity."

"By no means," she answered; "Lord Frederick makes part of my amusement,
but could never constitute my felicity."

"Miss Woodley," said Dorriforth, "do you comprehend your friend in the
same literal and unequivocal sense that I do?"

"Certainly I do, Sir."

"And pray, Miss Woodley," said he, "were those the sentiments which you
have always entertained?"

Miss Woodley hesitated--he continued. "Or has this conversation altered
them?"

She hesitated again, then answered--"This conversation has altered
them."

"And yet you confide in it!" cried Sandford, looking at her with
contempt.

"Certainly I do," replied Miss Woodley.

"Do not you then, Mr. Sandford?" asked Dorriforth.

"I would advise you to act as if I did," replied Sandford.

"Then, Miss Milner," said Dorriforth, "you see Lord Frederick no
more--and I hope I have your permission to apprize him of this
arrangement."

"You have, Sir," she replied with a completely unembarrassed countenance
and voice.

Her friend looked at her as if to discover some lurking wish, adverse to
all these protestations, but she could not discern one. Sandford too
fixed his penetrating eyes upon her, as if he would look through her
soul, but finding it perfectly composed, he cried out,

"Why then not write his dismission herself, and save you, Mr.
Dorriforth, the trouble of any farther contest with him?"

"Indeed, Miss Milner," said Dorriforth, "that would oblige me; for it is
with great reluctance that I meet him upon this subject--he was extremely
impatient and importunate when he was last with me--he took advantage of
my ecclesiastical situation to treat me with a levity and ill breeding,
that I could ill have suffered upon any other consideration than a
compliance with my duty."

"Dictate what you please, Mr. Dorriforth, and I will write it," said
she, with a warmth like the most unaffected inclination. "And while you,
Sir," she continued, "are so indulgent as not to distress me with the
importunities of any gentleman to whom I am averse, I think myself
equally bound to rid you of the impertinence of every one to whom you
may have objection."

"But," answered he, "rest assured I have no material objection to my
Lord Frederick, except from that dilemma, in which your acquaintance
with him has involved us all; and I should conceive the same against any
other man, where the same circumstance occurred. As y