found Clara, during her absence, grown much worse; and forgetting, in her concern, every thing else, could not help exclaiming, "You look sadly; pray do let me run and fetch the doctor, madam." Clara, with a faint smile said, "Tell me first, good Hannah, what you have to say about Mr. Sauritz; when I am to see him, and how they all are, and then I will no longer oppose your going to beg Mr. Marsland will come over, when he is at liberty. Hannah quickly gave the account already recited, and was then hurrying away as fast as possible to fetch Mr. Marsland. "Stop, Hannah," cried Clara, yet gratified to find there was still one being left whom she knew 30 sincerely anxious for her," be sure not to alarm the family; say I am slightly indisposed with a cold and over fatigue." "Yes, madam, pray heaven that may be all, Miss Clara," she said

as she hastened away for the doctor, who she desired would come as soon as he returned, and, forgetting her mistress's directions, added, Miss Fitzherbert was very ill, and she was sure stood in need of some advice directly. Poor Ellen had felt sadly disappointed, when she found upon asking Clara in the early part of the morning, if they were to go to the cottage soon, "not that day, perhaps she would either go there herself," Clara said, or would endeavour to send a proper person with her in. a day or two; "and you know, Ellen, that I left a direction where to inquire for you, before we came away." Clara had written one with her pencil upon a leaf of her pocket-book, and after folding it, had written on the outside in large characters, to be opened immediately, and pushed it half under the door. This seemed to reconcile Ellen in some mea

sure to the disappointment; and Clara hoped in this way by degrees to wean the thoughts of her protegee from that home, after which her young heart fondly yearned; and that, when more used to her new situation, she would the better bear the melancholy account of her father's fate.

The day passed but drearily; Mr. Marsland was detained abroad till evening; at which time, upon his return, the message left by the impatient Hannah, was delivered to him. The good creature had also been over two or three times in the course of the day, to ask if he was come home; this he was also informed of, which Clara did not know, till upon hastening over to her. As soon as he got home, he told her he was happy to see her well enough to sit up; he feared he should have found her in bed; that he was very sorry it had so happened she had to send so of

ten; Clara looked surprised, but that he had been unexpectedly detained from home by an accident which he had happened to witness.

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"And now, madam," said he, "it is high time to inquire into your indisposition; I expected to have found you your own apartment, where perhaps, you ought to have been," rising at the same time to take her hand, and then looking more attentively at her countenance as he approached her, which she did not observe, nor the change in his, as he counted her pulse, for she was taking that opportunity of informing him that it was her servant's kind officiousness, unknown to her, which led her to his house so often to inquire for him.

"You have been a witness doctor," said Clara, "to the goodness of poor Hannah's heart?" "I have," said he, hastily interrupting her, as he knew Clara alluded to the attention shewn by

this faithful domestic, to her father during his illness; "you must keep very quiet at present; I shall order you to bed directly, and send you over, what is proper for you to take; and shall call again in the course of an hour or two, to see that you have been obedient, and I hope soon to see you well, though not doctor like, for you know, madam, we are always supposed to make the most of things, that we may have greater merit in the cure. A grateful tear trembled in Clara's eye, at the recollection of his past kindness, and present friendly attention; he was then going, bidding her farewel for the present, when Ellen, impatient to see her dear Miss Fitzherbert, opened the door, but stopped; however, upon Clara's calling her to come in, she was soon by her side, the doctor calling out, "Ah! who have we here?" Clara was beginning to say something of the occurrences of