ll write you word, my Lord," replied she, something alarmed. "You
shall have a letter immediately after I get home."

As if he guessed what its contents were to be, he cried out with warmth,
"Take care, then, Madam, how you treat me in that letter--and you, Mr.
Dorriforth," turning to him, "do you take care what it contains; for if
it is dictated by you, to you I shall send the answer."

Dorriforth, without making any reply, or casting a look at him, put his
head out of the window on the opposite side, and called, in a very angry
tone, to the coachman, "How dare you not drive on, when your Lady orders
you?"

The sound of Dorriforth's voice in anger, was to the servants so
unusual, that it acted like electricity upon the man, and he drove on at
the instant with such rapidity, that Lord Frederick was in a moment left
many yards behind. As soon, however, as he recovered from the surprise
into which this sudden command had thrown him, he rode with speed after
the carriage, and followed it, till it arrived at the door of Miss
Milner's house; there, giving himself up to the rage of love, or to rage
against Dorriforth for the contempt he had shewn to him, he leaped from
his horse when Miss Milner stepped from her carriage, and seizing her
hand, entreated her "Not to desert him, in compliance with the
injunctions of monkish hypocrisy."

Dorriforth heard this, standing silently by, with a manly scorn upon his
countenance.

Miss Milner struggled to loose her hand, saying, "Excuse me from
replying to you now, my Lord."

In return, he lifted her hand eagerly to his lips, and began to devour
it with kisses; when Dorriforth, with an instantaneous impulse, rushed
forward, and struck him a violent blow in the face. Under the force of
this assault, and the astonishment it excited, Lord Frederick staggered,
and letting fall the hand of Miss Milner, her guardian immediately laid
hold of it, and led her into the house.

She was terrified beyond description; and with extreme difficulty Mr.
Dorriforth conveyed her to her own chamber, without taking her in his
arms. When, by the assistance of her maid, he had placed her upon a
sofa--covered with shame and confusion for what he had done, he fell upon
his knees before her, and earnestly "Entreated her forgiveness for the
indelicacy he had been guilty of in her presence." And that he had
alarmed her, and had forgot the respect which he thought sacredly her
due, seemed the only circumstan