o my
Lord Frederick, to whom I have given a high offence, as it might in
other instances have been forfeited to the offended laws of the land.
Honour, is the law of the polite part of the land; we know it; and when
we transgress against it knowingly, we justly incur our punishment.
However, Miss Milner, this affair will not be settled immediately, and I
have no doubt, but that all will be as you could wish. Do you think I
should appear thus easy," added he with a smile, "if I were going to be
shot at by my Lord Frederick?"

"Very well!" cried Sandford, with a look that evinced he was better
informed.

"You will stay within then, all this day?" said Miss Milner.

"I am engaged to dinner," he replied; "it is unlucky--I am sorry for
it--but I'll be at home early in the evening."

"Stained with human blood," cried Sandford, "or yourself a corpse."

The ladies lifted up their hands!--Miss Milner rose from her seat, and
threw herself at her guardian's feet.

"You kneeled to me last night, I now kneel to you," (she cried) "kneel,
never desiring to rise again, if you persist in your intention. I am
weak, I am volatile, I am indiscreet, but I have a heart from which
some impressions can never--oh! never, be erased."

He endeavoured to raise her, she persisted to kneel--and here the
affright, the terror, the anguish, she endured, discovered to her, her
own sentiments--which, till that moment, she had doubted--and she
continued,

"I no longer pretend to conceal my passion--I love Lord Frederick
Lawnly."

Her guardian started.

"Yes, to my shame I love him:" (cried she, all emotion) "I meant to have
struggled with the weakness, because I supposed it would be displeasing
to you--but apprehension for his safety has taken away every power of
restraint, and I beseech you to spare his life."

"This is exactly what I thought," cried Sandford, with an air of
triumph.

"Good heaven!" cried Miss Woodley.

"But it is very natural," said Mrs. Horton.

"I own," said Dorriforth, (struck with amaze, and now taking her from
his feet with a force that she could not resist) "I own, Miss Milner, I
am greatly affected and wounded at this contradiction in your
character."--

"But did not I say so?" cried Sandford, interrupting him.

"However," continued he, "you may take my word, though you have deceived
me in your's, that Lord Frederick's life is secure. For your sake, I
would not endanger it for the universe. But let this be a