At mention of that name her face was overspread with a crimson glow, and her eyes beamed redoubled splendour.

"Cousin," said she, with a sigh, "I know not what to say-- that gentleman, Sir Launcelot Greaves, was surely born--Lord bless me! I tell you, cousin, he has been my guardian angel." Mrs.Kawdle, who had maintained a correspondence with her by letters, was no stranger to the former part of the connexion subsisting between those two lovers, and had always favoured the pretensions of our hero, without being acquainted with his person.

She now observed with a smile, that as Aurelia esteemed the knight her guardian angel, and he adored her as a demi-deity, nature seemed to have intended them for each other; for such sublime ideas exalted them both above the sphere of ordinary mortals.
She then ventured to intimate that he was in the house, impatient to pay his respects in person.

At this declaration the colour vanished from her cheeks, which, however, soon underwent a total suffusion.

Her heart panted, her bosom heaved, and her gentle frame was agitated by transports rather violent than unpleasing.