I remain, dear sir, your well-wishing friend; and obedient to command, ALEXANDER FAIRFORD.
PS .-- Alan's Thesis is upon the title DE PERICULO ET COMMODO REI VENDITAE, and is a very pretty piece of Latinity .-- Ross House, in our neighbourhood, is nearly finished, and is thought to excel Duff House in ornature.
LETTER X DARSIE LATIMER TO ALAN FAIRFORD The plot thickens, Alan.

I have your letter, and also one from your father.

The last makes it impossible for me to comply with the kind request which the former urges.

No--I cannot be with you, Alan; and that, for the best of all reasons--I cannot and ought not to counteract your father's anxious wishes.

I do not take it unkind of him that he desires my absence.