Sir William answered that he was under an engagement to be present at the marriage of one of his college friends, and that he should set out in company with Mr. Moreland.

"Mr. Moreland!" said she to herself, "Ah, it was at his house that my unknown resided.

It is very seldom that Mr. Moreland undertakes a journey.

The young gentleman his friend was the nephew and heir of Mr. Moreland.

"Did the nephew ever visit Mr. Moreland?"

"Mr. Moreland, who is an old batchelor, full of oddities and sensibility, has a general dislike of young collegians.

In return the baronet explained to her the exact situation of the affair of Damon, told her that he did not believe the day was yet fixed, and assured her that Mr. Moreland and himself waited for a farther summons, though it must be confessed that it was expected every hour.

Damon met Mr. Moreland in London, and, with that simplicity and candour by which he was distinguished, related to him every circumstance of his story.

Mr. Moreland had no predilection in favour of lord Thomas Villiers.

Avarice and pride of rank were the farthest in the world from being the foibles of Mr. Moreland, and the sensibility of his disposition did not permit him to treat the faults, to which himself was a stranger, with much indulgence.

In pursuit of this plan, Damon, Mr. Moreland, and sir William Twyford, whom they found in London, and whose goodness of humour led him heartily to approve of the alteration in the plan of his friend, arrived, almost as soon as our travellers, in the neighbourhood of Southampton.

Just however as he had begun to take it into his mature consideration, he received the compliments of Mr. Moreland, with an intimation of his design to make him a visit that very afternoon.

Mr. Moreland he had never but once seen, and in that visit, he thought he had had reason to be offended with him.

After many conjectures, he at length determined with infinite sagacity, to suspend his judgement, till Mr. Moreland mould solve the enigma.

"He is the son," answered Mr. Moreland, "of lord Thomas Villiers."

"As to that, sir," said Moreland, "you must judge for yourself.

"I should have thought," replied Moreland, "that objection might have been stated in the first instance, without any reflexions upon the conduct and family of the young gentleman.

"Sir," answered Moreland, with much indignation, "that is a conduct that would deserve to be execrated.

" Mr. Moreland, all of whose nerves were irritated into a fever by so much vulgarity, and such brutal insensibility, could retain his seat no longer.

When Mr. Moreland related to him the particulars of his visit, Damon recollected the opposite tempers of the two gentlemen, and blamed himself for not having foreseen the event.

And I am very sorry if Mr. Moreland has behaved improperly."

"If Mr. Moreland!

A reconciliation took place between Mr. Moreland and the father of our heroine.

Damon was however now obliged, together with Mr. Hartley, to attend the lawyers at Mr. Moreland's, in order to complete the previous formalities.

The only business which remained, was the dispatching a message, which was done by one of sir William's servants, from Mr. Godfrey to lord Martin, announcing his name, and informing his lordship, that he was to be met with any time in the ensuing week at Mr. Moreland's.