a few days of each other, furviving their fon and grandfon only about a month! "Heart-ftruck, I fled with difgust and abhorrence from the woman whose fatal beauty, and my ungovernable temper, had been the cause of these horrors. I fent her a fum of money, told her we must never meet again, and befought her to hide herfelf, her guilt, and her forrows, in a convent :-but instead of doing fo, fhe abandoned herself to fuch a courfe of life as foon deftroyed her, and her death was added to the hideous catalogue of my crimes. "Purfued by diftracting remorfe, which prefented all my murdered family before me, I fled from place to place-but none afforded me any peace. Wretched as I was, I thought a feverer penance would alone relieve me. I determined to punish myfelf with the view of the spot where all my family had perished, the victims of my unpardonable wickedness. I came then with my old female fervant, who knew my deplorable story, to the Wold. I fhould defervedly have been hunted from my own house by the people of the country as a wild beaft. I therefore built a wretched fhed; and it has for fome years been my cuftom to vifit once or twice a day, and fometimes of a night, the houfe now falling into decay, where, but for me, my family might now have been flourishing and happy; where my fond and venerable parents, whofe grey hairs I fent in forrow to the grave, might have ended their lives in peace and honour among their pofterity; where my brother-oh! dreadful and diftracting remembrance! my mild-tempered, generous, affectionate brother, was driven by me to defpair and to fuicide !-Nightly, by the light of the moon and ftars, as I have traverfed thefe melancholy apartments, his bleeding ghoft has met ine! Yes, iny confcience has conjured up the most frightful fpectres !-but, with a gloomy and determined refolution, I have fought rather than avoided them. On the floor yet ftained with my brother's blood, I have lain whole nights, nights, groaning in fuch anguifh of heart as guilt alone can inflict. Amid the tempefts of winter, in wet, in wind, in snow, I have proftrated myself on the graves of him, of his child, and my poor fond mistaken parents. I have prayed to the thunder to ftrike, to the lightning to blaft me, in vain-and often have I held to my throat the weapon which fhould end my miferable life': -but a powerful hand always feemed to check me; a tremendous voice feemed to cry, Oh! wretch, live, live, that thou mayeft fuffer! "Let thofe who tremble at a defcription of my horrible fufferings, learn early to combat thofe paffions which may involve them in guilt and in mifery like mine." SCHOOL FOR PARENTS. RESUMED. BY A. K. ISLEWORTH. (Continued from page 49.) Beauties in vain their sparkling eyes may roll, SCAL POPE. CARCELY had Mr. Selby tafted with his amiable fifter, the calm pleasure of focial life and domestic tranquillity, before his ferenity was interrupted by her fudden indifpofition. A medical affiftant was inftantly fummoned, who pronounced that her disorder had every appearance of terminating in a malignant fever. It then occurred to Mr. Selby, that his fifter had frequently been to relieve a poor family of diftreffed cottagers, that had been ftruggling with the fame malady. That the had imbibed the infection was fufficiently obvious, though this circumstance they carefully concealed from the fuffering patient. Long and fevere was her indifpofition, but at length youth, aided by the power of medicine, and the unreVOL. VII. mitting mitting attention of Mr. Selby, and his domeftic, baffled the pernicious effects of the difeafe, and Catharine appeared for fome time reftored to convalefcence. But ftill a melancholy languor (owing to the feverity of her late diforder) pervaded her frame and depreffed her fpirits. A confumption, it was feared, would be the fatal effects of the great fhock her conftitution had fuftained. To avert, if poffible, an evil fo alarming, which threatened to destroy, at one ftroke, all the promifed repofe of his future days, Mr. Selby, as we have before feen, fet out for London in fearch of that affiftance apparently so necessary for the recovery of his fifter's health. 68 men On their way to the metropolis, after their departure from the Baronet's, Mr. Selby afked Catharine her opinion of his young friend. The natural frankness of her heart, admitted no difguife, and the ingenuously acknowledged that she thought Mr. Ormfby a very amiable and a very handfome man. "Few women," faid Mr. Selby, fmiling, "think it worth while to examine a man's mental qualifications, unlefs his exterior graces first rivet their attention." "It may be fo, my sage brother," replied Catharine, fmiling in her turn, but I think you must allow that the fame obfervation may be extended to both fexes with equal propriety." "It cannot be generally applied," said Mr. Selby, are not fo easily attracted by mere beauty, as you may fuppofe them to be." "Indeed," replied Catharine, "how then will you account for women of understanding being frequently overlooked or difregarded in circles where a pretty trifler fhail be careffed, flattered, and furrounded?" "The reafon is very obvious, my dear Catharine," answered Mr. Selby, "every one expects to find a pretty woman a mere trifler, and it is very feldom that they are difappointed; befides, the young men of the prefent day go into company to be amufed, not inftructed, to talk themfelves, not to liften to others. On the other hand, your women of underftanding ftanding are generally infufferably overbearing; they lay down rules which they expect others to abide by; they teach virtues which they do not practife, and defcant on fubjects they have never ftudied." "With due deference to your judgment," said Catharine, "you must permit me to fay, that no perion could difcover a woman of understanding by the defcription you have here given of her; they might find a pretender to wit, learning, and science, but not a woman of understanding. "Well! well," faid Mr. Selby, "it may be fo-let us return to my friend Ormsby." Catharine bowed, and her brother informed her that the Baronet had confided to him a defign he had upon the liberty of his son, and entreats me, on our return," he added, "to promote his views, by perfuading my late pupil to comply with his wifhes. "Does Mr. Ormfby, then, object to the lady his father propofes to him" faid Catharine. "He at prefent knows nothing of the matter," faid Mr. Selby, "nor docs the lady. Though the wishes of the parents, on both fides, are centered in the union, yet fo unaccountably indifferent is Ormsby to the charms of Selima Pedigree; fo inattentive in her company, fo loft in his behaviour to her, that Sir James fears making thofe propofals to his fon which he is bound in honour to the lady's father to bring forward, having given his promife to Lord Hubert Pedigree, that George should not, by his confent, marry any other woman.' "Did you ever fee the lady" faid Catharinc." Not fince fhe was a child; but if I may credit Sir James's judgment, fhe is very handfome, and to that power of her beauty he trufts for the fulfilment of his wifhes. She is, befides, rich, young, and well born, a point of great importance with the baronet; and with all thefe advantages Sir James fears Mr. Ormsby will not like her."--Said Catharine, "What other qualifications can he reasonably expect in a wife?" He may," faid Mr. Selby, drily, "be looking 02 for for a woman of understanding.' "And is Mifs Pedigree fuppofed to be otherwife?" faid Catharine. "I never heard good fenfe enumerated as one of her qualifications, as you call them," replied her brother. "Well then," faid Catharine, laughing, "you must endeavour to persuade him that a pretty trifler will be a very agreeable companion"-" for an hour or for a day, but not for LIFE, Catharine.' "I thought you just now fupported a contrary opinion. "We were not then fpeaking of a union for LIFE, fifter, for affuredly if a man of fenfe is united to a weak, vain, and trifling woman, his life must be one continual scene of torment and anxiety; on the other hand, a learned wife will feldom condefcend to study those domestic comforts, those indispensible duties on which fo materially depends the peace, the happiness, the welfare of a family.' "But between these two extremes is there no medium ?" faid Catharine. "Whe yes," replied Mr. Selby, "I think there is, nor do I fee any difficulty in fuppofing that a woman of fenfe may attain a fufficient knowledge, both of books and men, to render her converfation agreeable and her manners polished, without losing fight of that engaging fimplicity, that interefting modefty of behaviour and deportment, that while it addreffes the fenfes steals imperceptibly into the heart." "Indeed," replied Catharine, 66 you feem fo true a delineator of the power of fuch a woman, that I am inclined to think you speak experimentally on the fubject." "Indeed I do not,' was the reply. Catharine looked incredulous, which Mr. Selby obferving, added, " inquietude, dependence, and uncertainty, in early youth, left me no leisure to think of love. Marry I could not, for I did not poffefs the means of providing for a rifing family; and feduction I have ever looked upon as one of the worst of crimes! Never," faid he, "could I have forgiven myfelf if I had at any time fuffered my paffions fo far to mislead my |