the Thames, he mounts the beautiful hills of Kent, and thence contemplates nature in her faireft fhape-fuch was the delightful fenfation Jemima now experienced, whilft fhe gazed upon Henry, and compared his animated and graceful form with the liftlefs and mishapen lump, that the fat partner of her heart prefented daily and hourly to her weary fight. He had his hand upon the door, fo that no time was to be loft, when, with an eager accent, fhe called out to him to stop; then bidding him fhut the door, fhe began as follows:

"You are the young perfon, I prefume, whom the Doctor has taken into his family, and your name is Henry: you give a good fample of your fervices, Henry, not only in the care you had of your wetched master in his fall, but no lefs fo in the attention you have now fhewn to me in my alarm; in short, between fire and water, you have been fully employed this day in the rescue of us both in our turns, and you well deferve to be rewarded for your performances.'

"I am amply rewarded," replied Henry, "by your kind acceptance of my duty in the first place, and next by my master's liberality, who gave me as much as I have occafion

for,

for, and more than I had any right to expect."

"Your mafter, indeed!" cried Jemima;

your master knows neither how to rate your services, nor to reward you for them; I'll engage he has hir'd you for no other purpofe but to beat the filthy mortar, and do the dirty work in his dirty shop: but you shall do no fuch thing; you fhall wait upon me; I will take you to myself. With me your work will be eafy and your life happy, with him you will be a drudge and the lacquey of a drudge; for his very fhopman, the old Highlander, will make you fetch and carry on his scrubby errands: from me you will hear none but pious and edifying converfation; from them nothing but balderdash and blafphemy in an outlandish dialect: of me you will gain good instruction; they will lead you to your ruin, and render you in the end, what they are themselves, loft fouls in a state of reprobation, and totally caft out from the lot of the righteous."

"Heaven forbid!" quoth Henry." Don't fay fo, don't fay fo," refumed the faint; " don't fhock my ears with a fingle word in their favour: true zeal feels no pity for the wicked." "Not pity them!" exclaim'd the youth

with eagerness; "I could almost find in my heart to pity the devil himself."-" The devil you cou'd!” cried the faint, with horror in her countenance; " from what part of the world are you come? who are your unhappy parents? and in what anti-christian principles have you been educated? Pity them, indeed! No, no, that were a fin as heinous as what they commit; but the elect cannot fin, and confequently have no pity for finners."-" I beg pardon for my boldness, Madam," replied Henry, " but if this be fo, I must take leave to diffent from the elect."-This faid, he quitted the room, and left the inebriated zealot to digeft his doctrine as fhe could.

CHAPTER VII.

A timely Refcue.

HE next morning Henry arofe with the

THE

lark, and finding nobody stirring within doors, went in to the garden, and there began to employ himself in reforming the borders, that were in a very neglected condition. Whilft he was thus occupied, he obferved a tall ftout man, whofe fwaggering gait and important air bespoke

bespoke him a perfon of fome authority, coming acrofs the adjoining field, and making directly for a little wicket in the garden hedge, that communicated with the faid field. Here he was no fooner arrived than, difcovering Henry, he ftopt fhort, and in an angry tone demanded" Who are you, Sir, and why are you at work in this garden?"-" Because I am servant to the owner of it," Henry replied, " and have nothing else just now to employ myself about."—" If you are fervant to the owner," said he, "betake yourself to his shop, and tell Kinloch to fend the medicines to my house, that are ordered to be made up." "And to whofe direction must they be addreffed ?"-" My name is Blachford; you must be new in thefe parts, not to know me.' -"I am a stranger, it is true, in this place," rejoined Henry," and have not the honour of knowing you, but I fhall obey your commands."

After a few minutes Henry, finding nobody up in the house, and the fhop-door locked, returned to make report to his fender, who was now standing clofe under the eaves, in earnest converfation, as it seemed, with somebody at a window: the cafement was quickly shut upon

his appearance, but not fo nimbly as to prevent his discovering to a certainty that Sufan was the party to whom Blachford's converfation was addreffed.

The look, that gentleman now bestowed upon Henry, gave him fufficiently to understand how unwelcome his company was; and before he could well explain the reafon of his fudden return, Blachford's rage had burst forth both in words and actions, fo far at least as his courage fuffered him to proceed, by brandifhing his cane in a threatening manner, and telling him to be gone from his fight, for he perceived he was a very impertinent prying fellow, and would have nothing to say to him, "And depend upon it," added he, "I will have my eye upon you; if I catch you tripping, and once lay my hands upon you, you shan't easily get out of them."

With these words, which Henry answered only with a look of firm undaunted innocence, Blachford ftrode away, and was foon out of fight the casement was then opened, and Sufan in a low voice defired him to come into the house, for she wanted to speak to him: as foon as they met, fhe began with fome degree of embarraffment to apologize for appearances.

She