Surprise grew in my mind without any very distinct idea of the reason of it; and it was not till after a chance conversation with Morphew that my vague uneasiness began to take definite shape.

Morphew had informed me that master was very busy, on some occasion when I wanted to see him.

Morphew then began very oracularly to nod his head in assent.

"Mr. Philip," said Morphew, "a thing 'as 'appened as 'appens more often than it ought to.

"And if you were not so old a friend as you are, Morphew, I should not have allowed my father to be so spoken of to me.

My mind did not dwell on Morphew's communication.

I tried to invent some way of telling this to my father without letting him perceive that Morphew had been finding faults in him, or I listening; for it seemed a pity to lose so good a joke.

Morphew's words flashed through my mind as she spoke.

I said nothing till Morphew, with his solemn attention to everything that was going, had retired; and then it was with some strain of courage that I began.

Morphew came, as he always did, very deliberately, so that some time elapsed in silence, during which my surprise grew.

As I had not the smallest idea what I was about to see, for Morphew's "speaking likeness" was very hurriedly said, and only half comprehensible in the bewilderment of my faculties, my first glance was at this very unusual illumination, for which I could assign no reason.

Morphew came back to my room after my visitor was gone.

"Mr. Philip," he said, "you'll excuse me, sir, but if you're going to pay all the poor folks' rent as have distresses put in, you may just go into the court at once, for it's without end" "I am going to be the agent myself, Morphew, and manage for my father; and we'll soon put a stop to that," I said, more cheerfully than I felt.

"You, Mr. Philip!" "You seem to have a great contempt for me, Morphew." He did not deny the fact.

" Morphew dispelled his own excitement by making up the fire, which was dying in the grate.

The fire which Morphew had built up before dinner was dying out, the shaded lamp on my table left all the corners in a mysterious twilight.

I saw Morphew in the hall, and called him to talk to him, and cheat myself, if possible, by that means.

Morphew lingered, however, and, before he came, I was beyond conversation.

Tending to good, as Morphew, scabs, itch, breaking out, &c. Black jaundice.

9. "When melancholy gets out at the superficies of the skin, or settles breaking out in scabs, leprosy, morphew, or is purged by stools, or by the urine, or that the spleen is enlarged, and those varices appear, the disease is dissolved.

"I am not now as when thou saw'st me last, That favour soon is vanished and past; That rosy blush lapt in a lily vale, Now is with morphew overgrown and pale.

Printed for W. Lewis in Russell street Covent-Garden; and Sold by W. Taylor, at the Ship in Pater Noster Row; T. Osborn, in Gray's Inn near the Walks; T. Graves, in St. James's Street; and T. Morphew, near Stationers-Hall.

Printed for W. Lewis in Russell-street Covent Garden; and Sold by W. Taylor, at the Ship in Pater Noster Row; T. Osborn, in Grays-Inn near the Walks; J. Graves in St. James's-street; and J. Morphew near Stationers' Hall.

The Second Edition LONDON: Printed for John Morphew, near Stationers Hall. 1713.

MORPHEW, Your care in putting an advertisement in the EXAMINER has been of great use to me.