The assurance I entertain of your Courtesy obliges me to desist from urging this matter to you further, or saying any thing more on this subject. Believe me, Sir, &c. RICHELIEU. A LOVE-LETTER. The reader, after perusing it, will please read it again, commencing on the first line, then the third and fifth, and so on, reading each alternate line to the end. §To Miss M——.§ —The great love I have hitherto expressed for you is false and I find my indifference towards you —increases daily. The more I see of you, the more you appear in my eyes an object of contempt. —I feel myself every way disposed and determined to hate you. Believe me, I never had an intention —to offer you my hand. Our last conversation has left a tedious insipidity, which has by no means —given me the most exalted idea of your character. Your temper would make me extremely unhappy —and were we united, I should experience nothing but the hatred of my parents added to the anything but —pleasure in living with you. I have indeed a heart to bestow, but I do not wish you to imagine it —at your service. I could not give it to any one more inconsistent and capricious than yourself, and less —capable to do honor to my choice and to my family. Yes, Miss, I hope you will be persuaded that —I speak sincerely, and you will do me a favor to avoid me. I shall excuse you taking the trouble —to answer this. Your letters are always full of impertinence, and you have not a shadow of —wit and good sense. Adieu! adieu! believe me so averse to you, that it is impossible for me even —to be your most affectionate friend and humble servant. L——. INGENIOUS SUBTERFUGE. A young lady newly married, being obliged to show to her husband all the letters she wrote, sent the following to an intimate friend. The key is, to read the first and then every alternate line only.