Didn't think to meet, ye here, though. Doft not come to Pop, furely?? Bridgetina immediately informed her brother illuminé of the motives of her vifit to Mr. Poppem; at which he laughed fo immoderately, as to incur no fmall degree of our heroine's refentment, "Can't help it, for my foul,' cried Glib, breaking into another immoderate fit of laughter. Take a pawn-broker for a philofopher! How, comical! But never mind; better than us come for cash. Can't help me to any? Curfedly out at elbows. Citizen Vall no better than a scoundrel. Sold my books to Lackington, and gone off with the cafh. Left me without a fixpence. Can lend me five pounds, I hope?' "No, really," returned Bridgetina, “ I have not at present so much as five fhillings in my poffeffion, and came here in hopes of receiving a supply for myself.' 'So you can,' returned Glib. Get it on your watch. No watches among the Hotten VOL. III. Hottentots. No baubles, nor trinkets, nor gewgaws, in a reasonable state of fociety. Give it to me. Get you the money twinkling. How much doft want?' in a "Ten guineas will do for my immediate exigencies," replied Bridgetina, putting the watch into his hands. 6 Say no more,' cried Glib. Shalt have it in a moment. Then skipping across the shop, he entered Mr. Poppem's apartment without ceremony, and in a few minutes returned with fifteen pounds and a duplicate. The latter he put into the hands of Bridgetina, with the ten-pound note. Ten will ferve your turn,' faid he, and five is just what I want myself. Shall pay it in a trice.' "But when?" cried Bridgetina, perceiving him about to leave her. "When fhall I fee you? I fhall want the money in a few days, and you don't know where to find me." Never make promises,' cried Glib. "Nothing fo immoral. Damps my energies, to fee a creditor. Preferve your energies, my dear. That's it! Energies do all!' So faying, he skipped out of the fhop, and mingling with the crowd, was quickly out of fight. Bridgetina, forgetting at that moment the immoral tendency of punctuality, was extremely difconcerted by the fudden departure of Glib without a promise of repayment. The illuminated citizen's contempt of common honesty she knew to be as far fuperior to her own, as practice is to theory; but though the ought, upon her own principles, to have made a point of conceding to him the larger fum, as being the more deferving individual; yet either through the operation of fome latent prejudice, or fome pre-difpofing caufes generated in the eternity that preceded her birth, she felt more inclined at that moment to relieve the preffing difficulties of her own fituation, than to pay attention to the probably still more preffing difficulties by which he was embarraffed, embarraffed. Replete with chagrin and difappointment, the flowly returned to her lodgings; and having discharged Mrs. Benton's bill, retired to her own apartment, to mufe in folitude and filence on the many miferies that overfpread the barren wilder nefs of fociety. CHAP. CHAPTER VI. "He little recks the woes which wait MRS. HANNAH MORE. SLOWLY, in the opinion of Henry, did the hours move on, till the day that brought his sister and her fair companion to London. At length the fun arose that was to light them on their journey; and never did astronomer with more anxiety watch its progrefs on the day of the tranfit of a planet, than did Henry on this occafion. He had formed the design of meeting them at Barnet, and having ordered his fervant to procure, horfes, mounted about |