“Love to Rosamond--I am afraid she will think I have been too severe upon Buckhurst Falconer. I know he is a favourite, at least a _protégé_ of hers and of Godfrey. Bid her remember I have acknowledged that he has talents and generosity; but that which interests Rosamond in his favour inclines ill-natured me against him--his being one of Caroline’s suitors. I think he has great assurance to continue, in spite of all repulse, to hope, especially as he does nothing to render himself more worthy of encouragement. Thank Caroline for her letter; and assure Rosamond, that, though I have never noticed it, I was grateful for her entertaining account of M. de Tourville’s _vis_: I confess, I am rather late with my acknowledgments; but the fire at Percy-hall, and many events which rapidly succeeded, put that whole affair out of my head. Moreover, the story of Euphrosyne and Count Albert was so squeezed under the seal, that I must beg notes of explanation in her next. Who the deuce is Euphrosyne? and what does the letter P--for the rest of the word was torn out--stand for? and is Count Albert a hero in a novel, or a real live man? “I saw a live man yesterday, whom I did not at all like to see--Sharpe, walking with our _good_ cousin, Sir Robert Percy, in close conversation. This conjunction, I fear, bodes us no good.--Pray, do pray make another search for _the deed_. “Your affectionate son, “ALFRED PERCY.” Soon after this letter had been received, and while the picture of his life, and the portraits of his worthy companions were yet fresh in her view, Buckhurst Falconer took the unhappy moment to write to renew his declaration of passionate attachment to Caroline, and to beg to be permitted to wait upon her once more.