comparing them. From these frequent comparisons, she began to recollect him with more tenderness, and to find a great pleasure in the remembrance of his attachment to her. The men she met with in large parties stared at her with impudence, and addressed her with a lounging confidence and nonchalance, which to a girl like Julia was no recommendation. In Welburn there was a delicacy and respect which flattered her far more than the noisy flattery, and admiration she received in London. The modest speaking glance of his fine eye, came to her memory as a delightful contrast to the gaze of the men of fashion, who thought to please her by their stare. She began to love him the more, the oftener she thought about him. It was now that she foresaw the possibility that absence might cause him to forget her; she could now imagine it not improbable that he might become attached to another

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woman; and the idea of losing him, with the uncertainty whether he any longer loved her, made her restless and unhappy. She felt as if no rank or fortune could re'compense her for the loss of a heart which had been so devoted to her. She tormented herself with fears till she became miserable. Her heart longed to repose itself on the certainty of his love. She wrote to Mrs. Elwyn to inquire whether she had heard any thing of the Welburns, and expressing her great partiality for " old Mr. Welburn," wondered whether he would ever return to Torley. She begged Mrs. Elwyn to tell her any particulars about him, and whether he had got a living for his son, and whether the son was married?

Mrs. Elwyn replied, that she had heard nothing of the father, but that Henry was at Oxford with Edward Sanwell He is still unmarried," wrote Mrs. Elwyn. "He has distinguished himself in his studies,

and Edward Sanwell says, in a letter to his father, that he never liked any one so much as Henry Welburn, nor ever knew any one more thoroughly amiable."

"That Sanwell is a fine fellow !" thought Julia." It is curious enough, though, that Henry is not married."

Julia would have thought it still more curious if he had been married. She never expected to hear that he was; but she almost wished to disguise from herself the joy which played at her heart at the idea that he would marry none but her.

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She went on with Mrs. Elwyn's letterMy nephew will be in town in the course of next month. He is to call upon you at my request, and he will wait your time of coming to Torley, to have the pleasure of escorting you. A gentleman is sometimes very useful in protecting a female traveller."

"So here is another beau," said Julia, “and a man of fortune too.-Dear, dear

Henry, if he is only like thee, he will be indeed amiable !"

She kissed the name of Henry in Mrs. Elwyn's letter, and almost blushing at her own thoughts, ran down from her apart

ment.

CHAPTER XXIV.

She affects him not,

But dotes upon another.

MASSINGER.

CAPTAIN ELGAR did not thank his aunt for telling him to call upon Julia Delby, in Tavistock-square, to escort her down to Torley, and to pay her every attention on the journey. He more than once gave her very heartily to the devil, for not letting him travel quietly in his own way, without the plague of attending to women. However, he could not well refuse; but he pre-determined, that if Julia was neither