r spirits than her morning's prospect had given her the
least pretence to hope. Miss Woodley, too, had cause to be well pleased;
but her pleasure was in great measure eclipsed by the reflection, that
there was such a person as Miss Fenton--she wished she had been equally
acquainted with her's as with Miss Milner's heart, and she would then
have acted without injustice to either; but Miss Fenton had of late
shunned their society, and even in their company was of a temper too
reserved ever to discover her mind; Miss Woodley was obliged, therefore,
to act to the best of her own judgment only, and leave all events to
Providence.

CHAPTER VII.

Within a few days, in the house of Lord Elmwood, every thing, and every
person, wore a new face. He, was the professed lover of Miss Milner--she,
the happiest of human beings--Miss Woodley partaking in the joy--Mr.
Sandford lamenting, with the deepest concern, that Miss Fenton had been
supplanted; and what added poignantly to his concern was, that she had
been supplanted by Miss Milner. Though a churchman, he bore his
disappointment with the impatience of one of the laity: he could hardly
speak to Lord Elmwood; he would not look at Miss Milner, and was
displeased with every one. It was his intention, when he first became
acquainted with Lord Elmwood's resolution, to quit his house; and as the
Earl had, with the utmost degree of inflexibility, resisted all his good
counsel upon this subject, he resolved, in quitting him, never to be his
adviser again. But, in preparing to leave his friend, his pupil, his
patron, and yet him, who, upon most occasions, implicitly obeyed his
will, the spiritual got the better of the temporal man, and he
determined to stay, lest in totally abandoning him to the pursuit of his
own passions, he should make his punishment even greater than his
offence. "My Lord," said he, "on the stormy sea, upon which you are
embarked, though you will not shun the rocks that your faithful pilot
would point out, he will, nevertheless, sail in your company, and lament
over your watery grave. The more you slight my advice, the more you want
it; so that, until you command me to leave your house, (as I suppose you
will soon do, to oblige your Lady) I will continue along with you."

Lord Elmwood liked him sincerely, and was glad that he took this
resolution; yet as soon as his reason and affections had once told him
that he ought to break with Miss Fenton, and marry his