Part 18 (1/2)

He then said--'Mr Trevor, you are already acquainted with the plainness, and what you perhaps have thought the bluntness, of my character I have but one rule: I speak all that I think worthy of being spoken, and if I offend it is never from intention What you have related of these lordly men does not in the least astonish me

Their vices are as odious as you have described the yourself blah an opinion of your oers, and in cherishi+ng so like a selfish blindness to the principles of the persons, hom you have been concerned Your indiscriminate approbation of all you wrote raised your expectations to extravagance Your inordinate appetite for applause ave you of hi to a virtuous mind: and your expectation of prefers to sleep, that you could be a spectator of the picture you have drawn of the bishop, the day you dined with hi to accept, if not to solicit, his patronage You have committed other mistakes, which I think it best at present to leave unnoticed In the reive pain, but to awaken virtue At present you are angry: and why?'

'Why!' exclaination 'A peer of the realer!'--'What is a peer of the realm, but a man educated in vice, nurtured in prejudice fro the sa to be pitied!'--'Despised!'--'I was but three days in this earl's house The false colouring given ent first induced me to enter it; but I was soon undeceived'--

'Well but, a churchhest of earthly dignities!' 'Consecrated? There are many solemn but pernicious pantomimes acted in this world!'--'Suffer me to say, Mr Turl, that to speak irreverently of consecrated things does not beco' 'I can make no answer to such an accusation, Mr Trevor, except that I hten it and I will speak better

But what is it in a bishop that is consecrated? Is it his body, or his mind? What can be understood by his body? Is it the whole ine its contents! Holy? ”An ounce of civet, good apothecary!” That : is the new body, which the indulgence of gluttonous sensuality supplies, as holy as the old? If it be his mind that is consecrated, what is ic are future thoughts consecrated? Has a bishop no unholy thoughts? Can pride, lust, avarice, and aue be consecrated? Are sohts consecrated and soe farrago of impossibilities have these holy dealers in occult divinity juether? Can the God of reason be the God of lies?'

There was so uments, that I listened in speechless amazement At last I replied, 'I am almost afraid to hear you, Mr Turl'--'Yes; it is cowardice that keeps norance'--'Well but, this bishop? Does he not live in a state of concubinage?'--'The scene of sensuality that you have painted makes the affirmative probable'--'And my defence of the articles? I will publish it i the whole transaction'--'You will be to blame'--'Why so?'--Youvice?'--'The employment is petty; and what is worse, it is inefficient The frequent consequence of attacking the errors of individuals is the increase of those errors Such attacks are apt to deprave both the assailant and the assailed They begin in anger, continue in falsehood, and end in fury

They harden vice, wound virtue, and poison genius I repeat, you may be better employed, Mr Trevor'--'And is your rule absolute?'--'The exceptions are certainly few Exhibit pictures of general vice, and the vicious will find themselves there; or, if they will not, their friends will'--'This Enoch, too!--'Is I believe a h I by no means think the action at which you have taken offence is the strongest proof of his duplicity To decide justly, we must hear both parties He saw your passions infla to the bishop; though, if he in any o was an act of duty'

The reasonings of Turl in part allayed the fever of n of inflicting exeh a stern opposer of , and friendly Being better acquainted with the town than I was, he undertook to procure hbourhood, and in half an hour succeeded

To this ry to co so far as to leave my compliments for the earl: I departed without ceree of situation

After mature consideration, the plan on which I determined was, immediately to publish the fourth letter of Themistocles, already written; to continue to write under the sanature; and in the continuation to expose the political profligacy of the earl

Thely sent that very day

I next intended accurately to revise my defence of the articles, as soon as I should recover the copy from the bishop; to turn the conversation with Turl occasionally on that subject, that I ht refute his objections; and then to publish the work For ordination I would apply elsewhere, being determined never to suffer pollution by the unholy touch of that prelate

The nextreflected on what Turl had said, a sense of justice told ht to visit Enoch at least once more; in which decision my curiosity concurred I went, and found hihter were at the sa it was my knock, sent her attendant to inquire, and iown and er to do its office

'Lord! Mr Trevor! We have had such doings! Papa and mamma and I have been at it almost ever since! But don't you fear: I am your true friend, and I have made mamma your friend, and she insists upon it that papa shall be your friend too; and so he is forced to coh the bishop had convinced hientleman; and my papa will have it you don't understand coh you had the finest opportunity on earth; and that you will ruin every body that takes your part! You can't think how surprised and how angry he is, that you should oppose your will to an earl, and a bishop, and lose theyour friends' fortunes too: for there it is that the shoe pinches; because I understand the bishop is very kind to papa at present; and, if he should take your part, papa says he will never see hiued, what of that? Would the bishop give papa a good living, said ive up those that we love best in the world, because it is the will and pleasure of a bishop! No, indeed! I don't know that bishops are better than other people, for iven up So mamma told me to be silent; but she took my part, and I took yours, and I assure you, for all what they both said, I did not spare the bishop! So my papa fell into a passion, and pretended that I was too forward; and I assure you he accused s I don't knohether he did not make me blush!+ But I answered for all that, and said well, and if I have, who can help having their likings? I have heard you and s; and that you did not like one another; and that that was the reason that you quarrel like cat and dog; and so if people will be happy they s So said my mamma well but, Eliza, have you any reason to think that Mr Trevor has any notions of e? So I boldly answered yes, I had; for you know, Mr Trevor, what passed between us at the play-house, and the kind squeeze of the hand you gavewith me: and so why should I be afraid to speak, and tell the truth? And so erness would admit of no interruption, till it was checked for a moment by the entrance of Enoch, and the mamma I suspected a part of as to come, and never in my life had I felt so much embarrassment 'Well Eliza,' said the ? Have you come to an explanation?'

I would have answered, but Miss was an age too quick forto the full and whole I have told it all over to him just now, every syllable the same as I told it to you, and he does not contradict a word of it'

'Contradict?' interrupted Enoch 'But does he say the saht if possible, by a single word, put an end to the eternal clack and false deductions of this very loving young lady 'Lord! Mr Trevor!' exclai to her eyes, part fire and part water

'Sure you are not in earnest? You don't mean as you say?'--'I aly sorry to have been so misunderstood!'--'Why will you pretend to deny, Mr Trevor, that all that I have been rehearsing here, about the play-house; and about the kindness hich you paid your addresses to me there, and indeed elsewhere, often and before tiave with your eyes; and ht? Not tonext to h to win the affections of any poor innocent virgin! You are not such a deceiver as that coenerous and noble heart!'

Here Miss burst into a flood of tears, and mamma exclaimed--'I am very s!'

Enoch's anger for once !' said he

'It is the forward fool's own fault This is neither the first, second, nor third tihter instantly raised their pipes like fifty ciphered keys in an organ, first against Enoch, then against all the male kind, and lastly turned so furiously uponme piece-meal, like as the mad feth I started up in a passion, and exclaimed--'Will you hear me, ladies?' 'No! no! no!' screamed Miss 'We won't hear a word! Don't listen to him, mamma! He is a deceiver! A faithless man! I did not think there could have been such a one in the whole world! and I aainst it And after the true friend that I have been to you, Mr Trevor! and have taken your part, tooth and nail! Papa hih fire and water, against the whole world! and to be so ungrateful, and so false, and faithless to me in return! Oh shame, Mr Trevor! Is that a in's heart and then to forsake her!'

Finding the sobs and the rhetoric of Miss inexhaustible and every effort to elucidate fruitless, I rose, told Enoch I would explain o, was seized by the coat by the young lady, and could not without violence, or leaving like Joseph arment behind me, have tornaccording to his own story been probably present at such scenes before, had sense enough I suppose to be ashahter's conduct

I hurried home, snatched up my pen, and in an epistle to Enoch instantly detailed, as minutely as I could recollect them, all the circu that I had listened, had suffered the intercourse of knees, legs, and feet, and as she said had once pressed her hand; that for this I feared I ht have been to blame; but yet, if this were treachery, I knew not very well how a youngeither rude, ridiculous, or a traitor