which his medical friends pronounced to be a favourable crifis. Harriet was fitting with Mrs. Fielding in her dreffing-room, the door of which had been left open, to facilitate the communication of intelligence. Twice had he gone to it on tip-toe, on hearing two feveral knocks at the halldoor, but was each time difappointed by the appearance of vifiting-tickets in the fervant's hands, While he was delivering the last of these to Mrs. Fielding, Carradine rushed in."He is out of danger!" cried he; "the physicians declare he is out of danger! But Mifs Orwell, why do you not fpeak? You are not forry, fure, to hear that Sydney is out of danger? why do you not rejoice?" 'I-I do rejoice!' faid Harriet, and burst into a violent flood of tears, "Good Heavens!" exclaimed Carradine, "I thought it would have made you happy to hear the poor fellow was out of danger; but had I known how differently it was to affect affect you, I would fooner have been fhot than have told you a word of the matter.' "Good as well as bad news may be declared too abruptly,' faid Mrs. Fielding. Then in order to divert his attention from Harriet, fhe proceeded to afk a number of queftions concerning the opinion of the phyficians, and the symptoms on which that opinion was founded. Mr. Carradine was but ill qualified to give her information concerning these particulars; but the fimple fact that Henry was pronounced out of danger, was a folace to her friendly heart. CHAP. CHAP. VIII. "Reader, attend: Whether thy foul * Know, prudent, cautious, self-control, BURNS, THE recovery of Henry was not rapid, but it was unattended by any relapse. No fooner did returning health begin to re-brace the unftrung nerves, and re-invigorate the feeble frame, than the mind reverted to the objects of its former intereft; and though (contrary to the ufual practice of lovers in fimilar circumstances) he had not, during his delirium, once mentioned the name of Harriet, her image now re-affumed its wonted place in his breast. "Maria," 39 "Maria," faid he one day to his fifter, as fhe fat by his bedfide, which he was yet too feeble to leave for more than half an hour at a time," you confine yourself too much to my apartment. Befides the risk of injuring your health, you must embitter the happiness of Mifs Orwell by thus perpetually depriving her of your fociety. But, perhaps, the fees enough of company at Mrs. Fielding's to folace her for the absence of her old friends?" 'No, indeed,' returned Maria, Mrs. Fielding has received no vifitors fince you were taken ill; I do not believe that any stranger, except Mr. Carradine, has been within her door." "And has Mr. Carradine been often there?" "O yes, two or three times at least every day.' “He is then quite on a familiar footing in Hanover-fquare?" faid Henry, in a tre mulous voice, "Entirely goes in and out just like one of the family. Indeed, I believe the interest he took in your recovery, and the sensibility he evinced at the time you were thought to be in danger, has more endeared him to Mrs. Fielding, than if he had been the fon of twenty friends. That deep figh tells me, that I must not yet indulge you in talking; but if you please I shall now read to you à little-' "I think I had rather fleep," faid Henry. Maria drew the curtain, and remained in filence. The convalefcence of Henry was no fooner afcertained, that Dr. Orwell began to think of returning home. And no fooner did Carradine hear of his intention, than he haftened to communicate to him fuch propofals concerning his daughter, as he was well affured could not fail to meet his approbation. Having entered the Doctor's dreffing-room in a manner fufficiently abrupt to |