form that office. I will order tea
immediately, while you rest from the fatigues of your journey."]

When tea was served up, a servant entered the room with a letter which
he had found in the yard. Alida received it. "'Tis a letter," said she,
which I sent by Bonville to a lady in the village, and the careless man
has lost it. Turning to Theodore, I forgot to tell you, that your friend
Bonville has been with us a few days; he left us this morning. "My
friend," replied Theodore, hastily. "Is he not your friend?" inquired
Alida. "I beg pardon, madam," said he "my mind was absent." "He
requested us to present his respects to his friend Theodore," said she.
Theodore bowed and turned the conversation.

[_A&M_:

When tea was served up a servant entered the room with a letter
which he had found in the yard. Melissa received it.--"'Tis a letter
(said she) which I sent by Beauman, to a lady in New-London, and the
careless man has lost it." Turning to Alonzo, "I forgot to tell you
that your friend Beauman has been with us a few days; he left us
this morning." "My friend!" replied Alonzo hastily. "Is he not your
friend?" enquired Melissa. "I beg pardon madam (answered he) my mind
was absent." "He requested us to present his respects to his friend
Alonzo," said she--Alonzo bowed and turned the conversation.]

They now walked out, and took a winding path which led through pleasant
fields until they reached the water, and continued to pursue their way
along the shore till they came to a beautiful and shady grove, where the
thick foliage afforded a delightful retreat from the warm rays of the
sun, and at the extremity of which was a sloping eminence, which
commanded an extensive prospect of the surrounding country, part of
Long-Island sound and the junction of the bay with the eastern river.

[_A&M_:

They walked out and took a winding path which led along pleasant
fields by a gliding stream through a little grove, and up a sloping
eminence, which commanded an extensive prospect of the surrounding
country, Long Island and the sound between that and the main land,
and the opening there off to the distant ocean.]

A soft and silent shower had descended. A thousand transitory gems
trembled upon the leafy foliage, glittering in the western ray. A bright
rainbow sat upon a southern cloud; the light gales whispered among the
branches, agitated the young harvest to billowy motion, and moved the
t