If St.Eval will forgive me, I would gladly hear some news of our dear Mary." "And pray let me hear it also.

You know how interested I am in this dear friend of yours, Emmeline," replied St.Eval, struggling with himself, and succeeding sufficiently to speak playfully; for he and Emmeline had contrived to become such great allies and intimate friends, that by some sympathy titles of ceremony were seldom used between them, and they were Eugene and Emmeline to each other, as if they were indeed brother and sister.
Laughingly and delightedly Emmeline imparted the contents of her letter, which afforded real pleasure both to Mr.and Mrs.Hamilton, by the more cheerful, even happier style in which she had written.
"Now do you not think I ought to be proud of my friend, Master Eugene?
is she not one worth having ?" demanded Emmeline, sportively appealing to the young Earl, as she read to her father some of Mary's affectionate expressions and wishes in the conclusion.
"So much so, that I am seized with an uncontrollable desire to know her, and if you will only give me a letter of introduction, I will set off for Geneva next week." Emmeline raised her laughing eyes to his face, with an expression of unfeigned amazement.
"A most probable circumstance," she said, laughing; "no, Lord St.Eval, you will not impose thus on my credulity.

Eugene St.Eval, the most courted, flattered, and distinguished, leave London before the season is over--impossible." "I thank you for the pretty compliments you are showering on me, my little fairy friend, but it is nevertheless true.

I leave England for the Continent next week, and I may as well bend my wandering steps to Geneva as elsewhere." "But what can you possibly be going on the Continent again for?
I am sure, by all the anecdotes you have told me, you must have seen all that is worth seeing, and so why should poor England again be deserted by one of the ablest of her sons ?" "Emmeline!" exclaimed her mother, in an accent of warning and reproach, which brought a deep crimson flush to her cheek, and caused her eyes to glisten, for Mrs.Hamilton had marked that all was not serene on the countenance of the Earl, and her heart beat with anxious alarm; for she knew his intentions with regard to Caroline, and all she beheld and heard, startled, almost terrified her.

Lord St.Eval certainly looked a little disturbed at Emmeline's continued questions, and perceiving it, she hesitatingly but frankly said-- "I really beg your pardon, my lord, for my unjustifiable curiosity; mamma is always reproving me for it, and certainly I deserve her lecture now.