he occasion of your providential visit."

"I have a letter for you, sir," replied Newton, who had been intrusted
with the one which Mr Revel had given to his daughters on their
embarkation.

"Oh! a letter of introduction. It is now quite superfluous; you have
already introduced yourself."

"No sir, it is not a letter of recommendation in my behalf; but to
announce the arrival of your three grand-nieces--daughters of the
Honourable Mr Revel--in the Bombay Castle, the ship to which I belong."

"What?" roared the colonel, "my three grand-nieces! daughters of Mr
Revel!"

"So I have understood from them, sir."

The colonel tore open the letter, in which Mr Revel very coolly
informed him that not having received any answer to his former epistles
on the subject, he presumed that they had miscarried, and had therefore
been induced in consequence of the difficulties which he laboured under
to send his daughters out to his kind protection. The colonel, as soon
as he had finished the perusal of the letter, tore it into pieces again
and again, every renewed action showing an increase of excitement. He
then threw the fragments on the floor, stamping upon them in an ecstasy
of rage.

"The damned scoundrel!--the villain!--the rascal!--Do you know, sir,
that when I was last in England, this fellow swindled me out of a
thousand pounds? Yes, sir, a thousand pounds, by God! promised to pay
me in three weeks; and when I was coming back, and asked for my money,
he laughed at me, and ordered his servant not to let me in. And now he
has sent out his three daughters to me--pawned them off upon me,
laughing I suppose in his sleeve, as he did when he cheated me before.
I'll not receive them, by God! they may find their way back again how
they can;" and the colonel paced the room up and down, throwing his arms
about in his fury.

Newton waited some time before he ventured to make any observation;
indeed he was so astonished at such unheard-of proceeding, and so
shocked at the unfortunate situation of Isabel, that he hardly knew what
to say.

"Am I then to inform the young ladies that you will not receive them?"

"You don't know me, sir.--When did I ever receive a woman into my house?
They are all alike, sir.--Plotted with their father, I'll answer for,
with the hopes of getting husbands. Tell them, sir, that I'll see them
damned first--swindling scoundrel!--first cheats me out of a thousand
pounds, and then tries to cheat me in