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There is something exceedingly sensible in that venerable adage which tells us that " example is better than precept." Precept, we know, is occasionally highly efficient, but if example be still better, what excellence must dwell in a lesson which combines both? For such a lesson do I solicit, readers-unmarried ones they must be-for, upon the wedded community (whose experience is far more extensive than mine) this, my most woful of "experiences," will be entirely thrown away. I will, my dear reader, commence with the example, by which I do entreat you-be you either maiden or bachelor-to take warning. As to the precept, when you come to it, I trust you will learn it by heart and repeat it whenever you are exposed to similar hazards as those fatal ones I am about to record. beamed rays of-but I must not rhapsodize-'tis past-they beam no more on me! I must, however, let the reader know that, though young, she possessed a fund of what the world calls common sense; her views were just upon subjects which one so inexperienced has seldom the credit of having thought, and she expressed them with modesty, aptitude, and in the prettiest language. Indeed, the number and ardency of her admirers had become so great not more than a month after she "came out," that they gave me very serious uneasiness. She had just enough of romance to tinge her sentiments and manners with interest; for it was of a healthy tone, the reverse of overstrained or maudlin. But Emily was capricious. She had her times for being kind, and gentle, and captivating; and her seasons for poutings, and imaginary affronts, and cold looks, and freezing words; and these succeeded each other so unexpectedly and with such little reason, so far as real causes for them were concerned, that I-who, somehow or other, got myself upon the footing of a lover in her family, without any direct declaration-never knew, up to the last moment of our daily partings, whether I should be raised into a lover's paradise, or sunk into the lowest depths of despair. There can be no question that the greatest mis- At last a day came when we were doomed to fortune which can happen to mortal man, (except part for a length of time which true lovers look possessing a taste for literature, and trying to get upon as little short of eternity. She, her broa living by it,) is to be endowed with an everflowther, and mother, were going to take a tour in of sensibility. This is my misfortune. I am the France, and would be away for an entire two victim of sentiment and a pseudo relation, ruined months. This gave me serious disquietude. I by a misplaced affection and a false cousin. began to suspect that her family had opened their Possessing a stock of admiration which I was eyes to the object of my every-day visits and conenabled to distribute amongst the whole of the stant attentions to Emily, and that they had detersofter sex-with still enough to spare for my-mined to withdraw her from the range of my atten self-I concentrated, in an evil hour, the whole tions; for they knew I have not quite two hunof it upon one. Yes, the love I had been for dred a-year, and did not earn much by the exercise years lavishing upon, and extensively awarding of my profession. This point I determined to set at to all the most beautiful, the most accomplished, rest; and, one evening, when I found myself and the most amiable whose society I ever en tête-a-léte with Mrs. Wilful, gently hinted how enjoyed, I staked upon one dear, adored ob- much I should like to join the party-a proposiject. Dear, alas! no more, but still, I fear, for tion which I soon learnt my matronly auditor did ever adored! not like. I was, however, accorded the privilege of accompanying them on board the steam-boat as far as Gravesend. I wish I could describe Emily; but I dare not make such an attempt; our language is not rich enough in superlatives. Her beauty was of that expressive kind which had no insipidity in it; her portrait, had a painter made it, would have had no neutral tint; all was piquant and full of meaning. Her eyes, "soft, beautiful and blue," The morning of departure found me on board the Calais boat just half an hour before the appointed time; a period which I had the greatest difficulty in wiling away. At length my adored, her mother, and my dear friend and school-fellow, F Frank, her brother, made their appearance. Their | A particularly unhappy-looking waiter appeared luggage (I counted thirty-seven packages-no to take my order for dinner. He told me, in tones great amount of baggage, considering there were of the deepest melancholy, that the roast beef was two ladies of the party) was soon stowed, under" in excellent cut," that the salmon had not been the superintendence of their servant, and off started the vessel. Would that everybody could glide down to "that bourne from which no traveller returns," Gravesend, so happily as I did on that occasion. Emily was all smiles and gentleness; she never had been so uniformly kind for so long a period ever since my affection for her first evinced itself. She talked of the past, and almost apologised for many-what she was so censorious on herself as to call" rudenesses" towards me. She feared I deemed her flippant and volatile, but reminded me that "straws float on the surface, pearls lie at the bottom." I also returned her the compliment of accusing myself of a great many equally enormous crimes committed in reference to her, and we mutually forgave each other. I was enchanted. But the coup-de-grace to this delicious interview was yet to be given. I had provided myself with a ring with which I determined to present her at parting. This I mustered courage to do; while she, with one of her sweetest smiles, succeeded by a most captivating blush, told me she dared not accept it without the knowledge of her mamma. Her amiable reserve added new lustre to her character, and I had great difficulty in restraining myself from falling on my knees "under the lee" of the funnel, and declaring in passionate terms, the strength of my affection. Discretion however, prevailed, and I deferred my declaration for a more fitting opportunity. Advancing to Mrs. Wilful, who I could see was closely watching me, I addressed her in these words" My dear madam, I have just taken the liberty of offering this little bijou to your daughter's acceptance; but, with that delicacy which forms so prominent a feature in her character, she first desires your permission for receiving it. May I hope you will not refuse her-that is to say, my request?" The expression of Mrs. Wilful's face at that moment opened a paradise to me; it beamed consent with the most vivid brightness. She answered by taking the token from me, and by motioning her daughter to her side. Emily came; timidly, but with that kind of reluctant willingness which is so captivating. “Emily," began her mother, "Mr. Errant wishes you to accept this ring. Are you willing to receive it?" dead two hours, and that the charges of the house were next to nothing. He sighed between each sentence; his appeals to my appetite were truly pathetic, and I wondered how it was possible that anybody upon earth could be otherwise than happy. As for me, when alone, I caught myself at all manner of extravagances. I doubled up my gloves, and commenced a game of fives with them against a looking-glass. I took two or three clever leaps over two or three chairs; I tried over the new waltz-step, selecting a portly fauteil for my partner. I whistled, I sung, I capered: I felt that extravagant pleasure which is only produced by success in love, and excess of champagne; and when the waiter, with the utmost solemnity, announced that my dinner was "on table," I was assiduously engaged in a boxing-match with the effigies of a brown milk-maid and a red ochre cow which were daubed upon the wall. In truth, my mind was nearly absorbed with the thought of Emily. Her kindness, her tenderness, her modesty, filled my brain with the most delicious musings. Mrs. Wilful, too, claimed a small share of my thoughts. How I had wronged her! How I blushed to think of my suspicions-of my belief that Emily had been withdrawn from me because of my poverty! Then my friend Frank came in for a few of my cogitations. What an excellent fellow! what a treasure of a friend! How adroitly he managed not to interrupt my interview with his sister, during the whole voyage. "Yes," I exclaimed, "I am indeed a happy individual! Blessed with a lovely mistress, an amiable mamma-in-law in perspective, and the most exemplary of friends." Here my reverie was interrupted; intending to drink all their healths in a bumper, I found I had mixed in my glass equal quantities of Burgess's sauce and sherry. Restless, fevered, by an overflow of good spirits, I strolled on the pier, then walked through the town, and at length found myself on the beach entangled among a troop of soldiers. They were in fatigue dresses; their backs piled with canteens, knapsacks, great coats, and were all in a bustle. There were several women; some of whom were in tears, but a great many more far gone in liquor. The scene awoke me as it were out of my dream, and, looking around, I at once understood its meaning. A galley waited at the landing-place, and a transport lay in the river. I saw that the men were marines, and guessed Well, well, child, I dare say you will not ob- they were going to sea. It was a parting ject to wearing it; so here, put it on at once; and scene upon a large scale-a wholesale fareAt this moment, alas! the vessel stopped, well. There were embraces in dozens, and kisses and I was doomed to quit it and all which I held en gros; pledges and tokens were exchanged, and dear in the world! I took Emily's hand; it healths drunk to excess. Here, a virago was trytrembled. I know not how I got into the boating to summon a tear, while her husband was enwhich was to convey me to the shore; but dis-deavouring to conceal his delight at the pleasing covered, some hours afterwards, that, in my ecstacy, I had given the boatman a sovereign for his trouble. Emily was dumb. 66 When this delirium had in some degree subsided, I found myself seated in the room of an hotel that overlooked the river. prospect of parting, and peace. There, the picture was reversed; a couple, standing apart from the rest, were in earnest converse; the girl-a young and pretty one-was endeavouring to be gay, and to conceal the grief which almost choked her; while her soldier-a corporal-struggled hard to hide his agitation. Their hands were joined, and they grasped them often and closely. Their eyes were rivetted upon each other; I don't believe an earthquake would have caused the head of either of them to turn; nothing short of the more potent word of command could have parted them. This episode, so truthful, so natural and touching, sobered down my own spirits considerably, and prepared me for another and similar scene which I was doomed to witness. ("Doomed," indeed, for it has exercised a fatal influence over my happiness!) Finding myself an impertinent spectator of a scene I had no right to witness, I retired, and advancing to the top of the walk or landing-place, seated myself on a bench placed under the bowwindow of a respectable-looking tavern. I had not been there long before I heard the violent sobbing of a female. Curiosity prompted me to look in at the window, and I beheld in the room a young and beautiful female, supported in the arms of an officer. She was in strong hysterics. An older and lady-like personage was standing beside them, anxiously endeavouring to soothe her distracted companion. The lover-for such the first glance told me he was also poured words of consolation, of love, into her ear. The excess of sorrow gradually abated, and the distressed girl at length sunk into that insensible, lethargic state which great excitement always induces. There was a short pause. The girl gradually recovered; and, as the officer bent over her, I obtained a full view of her face as she turned to meet his gaze. It was exceedingly handsome, and was at that moment luminated with so lovely an expression-in which affection and resignation were beautifully blended-that I almost envied person upon whom it beamed. I have never forgotten that look; one so full of deep sensibility, has never been turned upon me, even from one whose love I once had reason to believe it my happiness to possess. the As I retraced my steps to "mine inn," I could not help feeling the sudden fall which the little drama of real life I had witnessed caused to my spirits; it afforded me much food for thought. I saw how small, how apparently insignificant an accident would only be necessary to change all the hope I felt, in reference to Emily, into the deepest despair. I understood that even if I were secure in her love, how easily all the delight such an assurance would impart to me, might be changed into the bitterest misery. My whole manner, and I suppose the expression of my features had become so altered by the incident of which I had been the spectator, and the reflections it had called up, that the lugubrious waiter did not recognise me as the person for whom he had so recently served dinner; and it was exceedingly amusing to hear the man relate to me (for now I felt so great a regard for his long face and hollow tones that I got into talk with him) how that a mad fellow had very nearly broke the looking glass, and got into a regular stand-up fight with the pictures on the wall. "I should not have minded his antics," continued the fellow, in a drawling tone, "for he didn't hardly eat no dinner, got up directly after his fish, and for got his beef and cheese. That was all very well, but then -; but then "What?" I enquired, as a disagreeable thought instinctively crossed me. 66 Why, he forgot to pay," replied the waiter, with a heart-rending sigh. "Some swindler, I should not wonder." "Swindler?-not he. He had not sense enough for that, poor deyil. He was mad, sir, very mad indeed, I may say. Leastways, if he wasn't, he did it uncommon well." "You are an honest fellow, waiter," I rejoined, drawing out my purse, "and, for your charitable opinion of the unhappy wretch you have been describing, I'll pay for his dinner." 66 You, Sir?" he exclaimed, turning up the whites of his eyes. "Well, that's the handsomest thing I've known since I left my last place!" As he quitted the room with the money, the fellow eyed me askant, evidently without discovering his mistake. It was equally clear, by the look of pity which he cast upon me, that he deemed me much more mad than his other customer. I stepped upon the deck of the crowded steamboat that was to convey me to town, determined to shake off the gloomy thoughts which had so sentimentally crept over me. The vessel was extremely crowded, and I had every opportunity of changing the tone of my musings. I saw a number of ladies and gentlemen scrambling for those portable seats which are always in such great demand when all the others are filled. The average of the melee was in favour of the men, who being the strongest, were therefore the rudest and most selfish; so that a bird's-eye view of the "company" would have discovered the hats on a much lower level than the bonnets; most of the men being seated to enjoy the fatigue of those unfortunate females who had no male friends to fight for them, and who were consequently obliged to stand. It seemed to be my peculiar destiny that day to play the eaves-dropper. I had elbowed my way through the crowd to the space between one of the deck-cabins and the bulwarks of the boat, and heard a conversation sustained by two female voices. It was carried on in a low tone, but, being close to the window, I could hear every word of it. "You feel better now, Patty, don't you?" said one. "O yes," was the reply. "I am glad, very glad it is all over. Forgive me for my tears only till to-morrow, and then, I faithfully promise not to think any more of the past, which has been so wretched-but of the future, which promises such happiness." "An exceedingly soft and musical voice that," I cogitated, "for so excellent and deep a philosopher!" "But this place is close," continued the first voice; "we shall breathe more freely upon deck." The conference here ceased, and, by the bustle I heard, I rightly conjectured that the fair colloquists were making their exit from the deck-cabin. I had been so interested in this conversation (for I could not help connecting it in my mind with the scene in the inn-parlour) that, until this |