I could hear the whisper of that divine voice, which is heard in the rustling of the forest trees, the gurgling of the winding stream, and the rush of the mountain cataract; and every day," he added, with solemnity, "I love man more, because God has made him my brother." He paused, and his countenance glowed with the fervor of his feelings.
With an involuntary expression of reverence and tenderness, I held out my hand and exclaimed,-- "My dear master--" "You forgive me, then," taking my hand in both his, and burying it in his large palms; "you do not think me officious and overbearing ?" "O no, sir, I have nothing to forgive, but much to be grateful for; thank you, I must go, for I have a long walk to take--_alone_." With an emphasis on the last word I bade him adieu, ran down the steps, and went on musing so deeply on my singular interview with Mr.Regulus, that I attempted to walk through a tree by the way-side.

A merry laugh rang close to my ear, and Richard Clyde sprang over the fence right before me.
"It should have opened and imprisoned you, as a truant dryad," said he.
"Of what _are_ you thinking, Gabriella, that you forget the impenetrability of matter, the opacity of bark and the incapability of flesh and blood to cleave asunder the ligneous fibres which oppose it, as the sonorous Johnson would have observed on a similar occasion." "I was thinking of you, Richard," I answered with resolute frankness.
"Of me!" he exclaimed, while his eyes sparkled with animated pleasure.
"Oh, walk through all the trees of Grandison Place, if you will honor me with one passing thought." "You know you have always been like a brother to me, Richard." "I don't know exactly how a brother feels.

You have taken my fraternal regard for granted, but I am sure I have never professed any." "Pardon me, if I have believed actions more expressive than words.

I shall never commit a similar error." With deeply wounded and indignant feelings, I walked rapidly on, without deigning to look at one so heartless and capricious.

Mr.Regulus was right.