rleigh, which I have not
yet seen.

Adieu! Yours
Emily Rivers.

LETTER 224.

To Captain Fitzgerald.

Bellfield, Thursday, two o'clock.

We are returned: Colonel Willmott is charmed with Burleigh, and more
in love with Emily than ever.

He is gone to his apartment, whither I shall follow him, and
acquaint him with my marriage; he is exactly in the disposition I
could wish.

He will, I am sure, pardon any offence of which his _belle paisanne_
is the cause.

I am returned.

He is disappointed, but not surprized; owns no human heart could
have resisted Emily; begs she will allow his daughter a place in her
friendship.

He insists on making her a present of diamonds; the only condition,
he tells me, on which he will forgive my marriage.

I am going to introduce him to her in her apartment.

Adieu! for a moment.

Fitzgerald!--I scarce respire--the tumult of my joy--this
daughter whom I have refused--my Emily--could you have believed--my
Emily is the daughter of Colonel Willmott.

When I announced him to her by that name, her color changed; but
when I added that he was just returned from the East Indies, she
trembled, her cheeks had a dying paleness, her voice faltered, she
pronounced faintly, "My father!" and sunk breathless on a sofa.

He ran to her, he pressed her wildly to his bosom, he kissed her
pale cheek, he demanded if she was indeed his child? his Emily? the
dear pledge of his Emily Montague's tenderness?

Her senses returned, she fixed her eyes eagerly on him, she kissed
his hand, she would have spoke, but tears stopped her voice.

The scene that followed is beyond my powers of description.

I have left them a moment, to share my joy with you: the time is too
precious to say more. To-morrow you shall hear from me.

Adieu! Yours,
Ed. Rivers.

LETTER 225.

To Captain Fitzgerald.

Temple-house, Friday.

Your friend is the happiest of mankind.

Every anxiety is removed from my Emily's dear bosom: a father's
sanction leaves her nothing to desire.

You may remember, she wished to delay our marriage: her motive was,
to wait Colonel Willmott's return.

Though promised by him to another, she hoped to bring him to leave
her heart free; little did she think the man destined for her by her
father, was the happy Rivers her heart had chosen.

Bound by a solemn vow, she concealed the circumstances of her birth
even from me.

She resolved never t