consequence to any one; of very little to myself;but you are of importance to all your connections."

Here I concluded, & I hope you will besatisfied with my speech. —It's effect on Regi::nald justifies some portion of vanity, for it was noleſs favourable than instantaneous. — Oh! how de::lightful it was, to watch the variations of hisCountenance while I spoke, to see the strugglebetween returning Tenderneſs & the remains ofDispleasure. — There is something agreable in feel::ings so easily worked on. Not that I envy himtheir poſseſsion, nor would for the world have such myself, but they are very convenient whereone wishes to influence the paſsions of another. And yet this Reginald, whom a very few words from me softened at once into the utmost sub::miſsion, & rendered more tractable, more attached, more devoted than ever, would have left me in