Some ladies are selected at Madeira.

Since the Cape has been in our possession, several have been induced to stay in that colony; and very often ships arrive with only the refuse of their cargo for the intended market in the East.

But Isabel Revel had consented to embark on the score of filial duty, not to obtain a husband, unless she liked the gentleman who proposed; and Captain Carrington did not happen to come up to her fanciful ideas of the person to be chosen for life.

Captain Carrington did not impart the intelligence of his ill-success to anyone but Newton, who was employed to carry his farewell message.

His secret was faithfully kept by both.