It will ever grieve me to think that our meeting occasioned a ripple to disturb the tranquil surface of your feelings.

I could not help loving you--and for that I am not responsible.

Alas! that, in loving, I should bring pain to the heart of the beloved one.
"But why say more?
Why trouble your spirit by revealing the disturbance of mine?
Heaven bless you and keep you, Fanny; and may your sky be ever bathed in sunshine! I leave my destiny in your hands, and pray for strength to bear the worst.
Adieu.
L.L." There was a flitting smile on the lips of the young Englishman, as he folded and sealed this letter, and a look of assurance on his face, that little accorded with the words he had just written.

Again he took up his pen and wrote-- "MY DEAR D.C.L.:--Faithful as ever you have proved in this affair, which is growing rather too complicated, and beginning to involve too many interests.

Miss Markland is fretting sadly under the injunction of secrecy, and says that I must release her from the obligation not to mention my hasty return from the South.