rable report of her cause.'

Antonia raised her blue eyes, and silently thanked him for the offer by
a smile of inexpressible sweetness. Leonella's satisfaction was much
more loud and audible: Indeed, as her Niece was generally silent in her
company, She thought it incumbent upon her to talk enough for both:
This She managed without difficulty, for She very seldom found herself
deficient in words.

'Oh! Segnor!' She cried; 'You will lay our whole family under the most
signal obligations! I accept your offer with all possible gratitude,
and return you a thousand thanks for the generosity of your proposal.
Antonia, why do not you speak, Child? While the Cavalier says all
sorts of civil things to you, you sit like a Statue, and never utter a
syllable of thanks, either bad, good, or indifferent!'

'My dear Aunt, I am very sensible that....'

'Fye, Niece! How often have I told you, that you never should
interrupt a Person who is speaking!? When did you ever know me do such
a thing? Are these your Murcian manners? Mercy on me! I shall never
be able to make this Girl any thing like a Person of good breeding.
But pray, Segnor,' She continued, addressing herself to Don Christoval,
'inform me, why such a Crowd is assembled today in this Cathedral?'

'Can you possibly be ignorant, that Ambrosio, Abbot of this Monastery,
pronounces a Sermon in this Church every Thursday? All Madrid rings
with his praises. As yet He has preached but thrice; But all who have
heard him are so delighted with his eloquence, that it is as difficult
to obtain a place at Church, as at the first representation of a new
Comedy. His fame certainly must have reached your ears--'

'Alas! Segnor, till yesterday I never had the good fortune to see
Madrid; and at Cordova we are so little informed of what is passing in
the rest of the world, that the name of Ambrosio has never been
mentioned in its precincts.'

'You will find it in every one's mouth at Madrid. He seems to have
fascinated the Inhabitants; and not having attended his Sermons myself,
I am astonished at the Enthusiasm which He has excited. The adoration
paid him both by Young and Old, by Man and Woman is unexampled. The
Grandees load him with presents; Their Wives refuse to have any other
Confessor, and he is known through all the city by the name of the
"Man of Holiness".'

'Undoubtedly, Segnor, He is of noble origin--'

'That point still remains undecided. The late Superior of