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tenant, and I hope you will allow me to remain here. Your honesty deserves a better recompense, answered the stranger. My success in trade has been great, and I have forgot my loss. You are well entitled to this little fortune; keep it as your own. 11. What man in the world would have acted like Perrin? Perrin and Lucetta shed tears of affection and joy. "My dear children," said he, "kiss the hand of your benefactor. Lucetta, this farm now belongs to us, and we can enjoy it without anxiety or remorse. "Thus was honesty rewarded; and let those who desire the reward, practice the virtue.

CHAPTER XI.

CHARACTER OF A YOUNG LADY.

1. Sophia is not a beauty, but in her presence, beauties are discontented with themselves. At first she scarcely appears pretty; but the more she is beheld, the more agreeable she appears. She gains when others lose, and what she gains she never loses. She is equaled by none in a sweet expression of countenance; and without dazzling beholders, she interests them.

2. She loves dress, and is a good judge of it; despises finery, but dresses with peculiar grace, mixing simplicity with elegance. Ignorant she is of what colors are in fashion; but knows well what suits her complexion. She prepares herself for managing a family of her own, by managing that of her father.

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3. Cookery is familiar to her, with the price and quality of provisions; and she is a ready accountant. Her chief view, however, is, to serve her mother, and lighten her cares. holds cleanliness and neatness to be indispensable in a woman; and that a slattern is disgusting, especially if beautiful.

4. The attention given to externals, does not make her overlook her more material duties. Sophia's understanding is solid, without being profound. Her sensibility is too great for a perfect equality of temper; but her sweetness renders that inequality harmless. A harsh word does not make her angry; but her heart swells, and she retires to disburden it by weeping.

5. Recalled by her father and mother, she comes at the instant, wiping her eyes, and appearing cheerful. She suffers with patience any wrong done her; but is impatient to repair any wrong she has done, and does it so cordially as to make it appear meritorious. If she happens to disoblige a companion, her joy and her caresses, when restored to favor, show the burden that lay upon her good heart.

6. The love of virtue is Sophia's ruling passion. She loves

it, because no other thing is so lovely: she loves it, because it is the glory of the female sex: she loves it, as the only road to happiness, misery being the sure attendant of a woman without virtue. She loves it, as dear to her respectable father and tender mother. These sentiments inspire her with a degree of enthusiasm, that elevates her soul, and subdues every irregular appetite.

7. Of the absent she never talks but with circumspection,of her female acquaintance especially. She has remarked, that what renders women prone to detraction, is, talking of their own sex; and that they are more equitable with respect to the men. Sophia therefore never talks of women, but to express the good she knows of them: of others she says nothing.

8. Without much knowledge of the world, she is attentive, obliging, and graceful, in all she does. A good disposition does much more for her, than art does for others. She possesses a degree of politeness, which, void of ceremony, proceeds from a desire to please, and which consequently never fails to please.

CHAPTER XII.

MODESTY, DOUBT, AND TENDER AFFECTION.

AGATHOCLES AND CALISTA.

1. Calista was young and beautiful, endowed with a great share of wit and solid sense. Agathocles, whose age very little exceeded hers, was well-made, brave and prudent. He had the good fortune to be introduced at Calista's, where his eyes, wandering indifferently over a numerous circle, soon distinguished and fixed upon her.

2. But, recovering from the short ecstasy occasioned by the first sight, he immediately reproached himself, as being guilty of rudeness to the rest of the company; a fault which he had endeavored to correct, by looking round on other objects. Vain attempts! They were attracted by a powerful charm, and turned again towards Calista. He blushed, as well as she, while a sweet emotion, till then unfelt, produced a kind of fluttering in his heart, and confusion in his countenance.

3. They both became at the same time more timid and more curious. He was pleased with gazing at Calista, which he could not do without trembling; whilst Calista, secretly satisfied with this flattering preference, cast her eyes on him by stealth. They were both under an apprehension, but especially Calista, of being caught by the other in the fact; and yet caught they were, almost every moment.

4. The hour of separation came, which to them appeared too

sudden melancholy were the reflections they made on the rapidity of time. Imagination, however, did not permit them to be entirely absent from each other; for the image of Calista was deeply engraved on the mind of Agathocles, and his features were strongly impressed on that of Calista. They both appeared less cheerful the rest of the day. A lively sentiment, which they did not well comprehend themselves, entirely employed their minds, in spite of every attempt to divert themselves.

5. Two days passed without seeing one another again; and though this interval of time had been filled up either by business or recreations, yet they both, notwithstanding, experienced a weariness and dissatisfaction in their minds, for which they could in no way account. But the moment which brought them together again, explained it to them: the perfect contentment they felt in each other's company, made them sensible of the real source of their melancholy.

6. Agathocles took more courage that day: he addressed Calista in the most obliging manner, and had the happiness to converse with her for the first time. As yet, he had seen only her outward charms; but now, he discovered the beauty of her mind, the integrity of her heart, the dignity of her sentiments, and the delicacy of her wit: but what charmed him the most, was the opinion he conceived, that she did not judge him unworthy of her esteem.

7. From this time he made her frequent visits; in every one of which, he discovered some new perfection in the fair Calista. This is the characteristic of true merit; it gains by being exposed to the eye of a judicious person. A man of sense will soon dislike a coquet, a fool, or a giddy woman: but if he falls in love with a woman of merit, time, far from weakening, will only strengthen and augment his passion.

8. The fixed inclination of Agathocles convinced him now, that what he felt for Calista, was love, and that of the most tender nature. This he knew; but Calista did not as yet know it, or at least had not learnt it from his lips. Love is timorous and diffident. A bold suitor is not the real lover of the lady whom he addresses: he seeks for nothing but pleasure.

9. Agathocles at last resolved to open his heart to Calista; but he did not do it in the affected language of a romantic passion. "Lovely Calista," said he, ingenuously, "it is not mere esteem that binds me to you, but a most passionate and tender love. I feel that I cannot live without you: can you, without violence to your inclinations, consent to make me happy? I may love you without offense; 'tis a tribute due to your merit: but may I flatter myself with the hope of some small return?" 10. A coquet would have affected to be displeased at such a

declaration. But Calista not only listened to her lover without interrupting him, but answered him without ill-nature, and gave him leave to hope. Nor did she put his constancy to a tedious trial: the happiness for which he sighed, was no longer delayed than was necessary to prepare the ceremony.

11. The marriage settlements were easily regulated betwixt the parties; for interest was out of the question: the chief article consisted in the mutual exchange of hearts, which was already fulfilled. What will be the lot of the new married couple? The happiest, I may venture to foretell, that mortals can enjoy upon earth.

12. No pleasures are comparable to those that affect the heart; and there are none that affect it with such exquisite delight, as loving and being loved. To this tender union we can never apply the words of Democritus, that the pleasure of love is but a short epilepsy. He meant, without doubt, mere sensual pleasure, which has so little in it of the nature of love, that a man may enjoy it without loving, and love without ever enjoying it.

13. They will be constant in their love. This I dare also to predict; and I know the reason. Their affection is not founded on the dazzling charms of beauty: they are both the friends of virtue; they love each other on this account. They will therefore continue to love, as long as they are virtuous, and their union itself is a pledge of their perseverance,-for nothing so much secures our continuance in the paths of virtue, as to have perpetually before our eyes, the example of a person whom we love.

14. Nothing is capable of disturbing their happiness, but those disasters and misfortunes from which their love cannot shelter them. But, supposing such a reverse of fortune: would not their fate in this respect be common with that of the rest of mankind? Those who have never tasted the pleasures of love, are not exempt from the like casualties; and the lover is at least a gainer, in regard to those pleasures which constitute no small part of the happiness of life.

15. Besides, even love itself will greatly diminish the sense of their misfortunes. For love has the peculiar property of alleviating the sufferings of two fond hearts, and of rendering their pleasures more exquisite. By this communication of distress, they seem to divide its weight; and on the contrary, by participation, their satisfaction is doubled.

16. As a squadron of horse is with greater difficulty broken through by the enemy, in proportion to its closeness; so the happy pair resist the attacks of adversity with so much the more strength and success, as they are the more closely united.

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A correspondent of a respectable quaker publication, called The Friend,' in Philadelphia, furnishes the following pleasant anecdote of a humming-bird:

"Some time in the seventh month of the present year, one of my family caught a small humming-bird, which appeared quite debilitated for want of food. We presented it with some sugar and cream mixed together, which it sucked up with avidity, after which it was restored to liberty. In the course of a short interval, it again made its appearance, was taken in the hand, and a mixture of sugar and water, made into the consistence of sirup, was poured into the corolla of the trumpet-honeysuckle, from which it eagerly extracted it. From this time forward, it became quite familiar, and would come a dozen times a day or more, to be fed. After fluttering for a few seconds at the door or window to attract notice, it would alight on the limb of a neighboring tree, or rose-bush, until its food was prepared for it, and then, upon calling 'Peet, Peet,' it would dart in a straight line, with the velocity of an arrow, to receive it. We generally filled two or three of the tubes of the honeysuckle with the sirup, which it extracted while on the wing, buzzing around the flower held in our hand, and inserting its bill, which was about three fourths of an inch in length, from which it protruded its tongue at least half an inch longer, with which it sucked up the liquid.

This generally sufficed it; but sometimes it did not appear satisfied, but would repair to its resting place, and wait until

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