Between the seclusion of the one and the turmoil of the other, the society of L---- was a happy medium.

He should be glad of my opinion.

He had put off asking for it, because he owned his belief that I had behaved unkindly to his lamented friend, Dr.Lloyd; but he now found himself in rather an awkward position.

His ward, young Sumner, had prudently resolved on fixing his country residence at Kirby Hall, rather than at Haughton Park, the much larger seat which had so suddenly passed to his inheritance, and which he could not occupy without a vast establishment, that to a single man, so young, would be but a cumbersome and costly trouble.

Mr.Vigors was pledged to his ward to obtain him possession of Kirby Hall, the precise day agreed upon, but Mrs.Ashleigh did not seem disposed to stir,--could not decide where else to go.