I applaud this conduct exceedingly, the more, perhaps, since it discovers a strength of mind seldom observable in your sex.

When you are older you will look back with gratitude to the friends who assisted in rescuing you from the romantic illusions of sentiment, and will perceive, that they are only the snares of childhood, and should be vanquished the moment you escape from the nursery.

I have not closed my letter, and you may add a few lines to inform your uncle of your acquiescence.

You will soon see him, for it is my intention to take you, with Madame Montoni, in a few days to Miarenti, and you can then talk over the affair.' Emily wrote on the opposite page of the paper as follows: 'It is now useless, sir, for me to remonstrate upon the circumstances of which Signor Montoni informs me that he has written.

I could have wished, at least, that the affair had been concluded with less precipitation, that I might have taught myself to subdue some prejudices, as the Signor calls them, which still linger in my heart.