a scaffold! I cannot join in your desire, and I must point your attention to the extreme ingratitude of your proceeding: I believe that you might go through London, and find your house and equipage unequalled; why you should, therefore, wish to engage me in plots and dangers, completely baffles even my penetration!"
"These things never entered my head!" exclaimed Lady Marchmont.
"You see how limited is your foresight: it is fortunate that you are connected with one who looks a little more into the consequences of actions than yourself!" replied he, with a self-complacent smile.
"Well, well," returned she, "I withdraw my request: I was wrong in making it. "Wrong," thought she to herself, "in hoping that you could have one kind and generous feeling!"
"I rarely fail to convince!" said Lord Marchmont, rising: "I believe that we have no further occasion to trespass on each other's time. The morning is the most valuable por-
