and save the conscience, of the French lady; but, that any
thing of the nature of a serious and legal ceremony took place,
nothing but the strongest proof can make me believe.

"I repeat, then, that I have little doubt that the claims of
Martigny, whatever they are, may be easily compounded, and England
made clear of him. This will be more easily done, if he really
entertains such a romantic passion, as you describe, for Miss Clara
Mowbray. It would be easy to show him, that whether she is disposed
to accept your lordship's hand or not, her quiet and peace of mind
must depend on his leaving the country. Rely on it, I shall find out
the way to smooth him down, and whether distance or the grave divide
Martigny and you, is very little to the purpose; unless in so far as
the one point can be attained with honour and safety, and the other,
if attempted, would only make all concerned the subject of general
execration and deserved punishment.--Speak the word, and I attend
you, as your truly grateful and devoted

"HENRY JEKYL."

To this admonitory epistle, the writer received, in the course of post,
the following answer:--

"My truly grateful and devoted Henry Jekyl has adopted a tone, which
seems to be exalted without any occasion. Why, thou suspicious
monitor, have I not repeated a hundred times that I repent sincerely
of the foolish rencontre, and am determined to curb my temper, and
be on my guard in future--And what need you come upon me, with your
long lesson about execration, and punishment, and fratricide, and so
forth?--You deal with an argument as a boy does with the first hare
he shoots, which he never thinks dead till he has fired the second
barrel into her. What a fellow you would have been for a lawyer! how
long you would have held forth upon the plainest cause, until the
poor bothered judge was almost willing to decide against justice,
that he might be revenged on you. If I must repeat what I have said
twenty times, I tell you I have no thoughts of proceeding with this
fellow as I would with another. If my father's blood be in his
veins, it shall save the skin his mother gave him. And so come,
without more parade, either of stipulation or argument. Thou art,
indeed, a curious animal! One would think, to read your
communication, that you had yourself discovered the propriety o