afford room for two or three men to walk abreast between them. Here
she had not remained more than a minute or two, when, issuing from
the cover of the thorns, and approaching her with something of a stage
strut, our friend, Buck English, made his appearance.

"Miss Joolia," he exclaimed, with what was intended for a polite bow,
"I hope you will pardon me for this third liberty I teek in offering to
spake to you. I see," he proceeded, observing her rising indignation,
"that you are not inclined to hear me, but I kim here to give you a bit
of advice as a friend--listen to my proposals, if you're wise--and don't
make me the enemy of yourself or your family, for so sure as you reject
me, so certainly will you bring ruin upon both yourself and them. I
say this as a friend, and merk me, the day may come when you will oll
remember my words too late."

There was a vehemence in his language, which could admit of no mistake
as to the fixed determination of his purpose; his lips were compressed,
his eyebrows severely knit, and his unfeeling, hyena eye scintillated
with a fire that proceeded as much from an inclination to revenge as
affection. Julia Purcel, however, though a women, possessed no whit of
her sex's cowardice; on the contrary, her bosom heaved with indignant
scorn, and her eye gave him back glance for glance, in a spirit that
disdained to quail before his violence.

"Do you dare to threaten me or my family, sir?" she replied; "I think
you should know us better than to imagine that the threats of a ruffian,
for such I now perceive you to be, could for a moment intimidate either
them or me. Begone, sir, I despise and detest you--until this moment,
I looked upon and treated you as a fool, but I now find you are a
villain--begone, I say; I scorn and defy you."