"MADAM,

"Circumstances have occurred, since I had last the honour of seeing you,
which make it impossible that I should ever think of you more.

"JOHN WRIGHT.

"P.S. My cousin, Marvel, thanks you for your note. Before you receive
this, he will have left York wiser than he came into it by fifty guineas
and more."

"Wiser by more than fifty guineas, I hope," said Marvel, as he rode out
of town, early in the morning.

"I have been on the point of being finely taken in! I'm sure this
will be a lesson to me as long as I live. I shall never forget your
good-nature, and steadiness to me, Wright. Now, if it had not been for
you, I might have been married to this jade; and have given her and her
brother every thing I'm worth in the world. Well, well, this is a lesson
I shall remember. I've felt it sharply enough. Now I'll turn my head to
my business again, if I can. How Goodenough would laugh at me if he knew
this story. But I'll make up for all the foolish things I have done
yet before I die; and I hope, before I die, I may be able to show you,
cousin Wright, how much I am obliged to you: that would be greater joy
to me even than getting by my own ingenuity my uncle Pearson's ten
thousand pound legacy. Do, Wright, find out something I can do for you,
to make amends for all the trouble I've given you, and all the time I
have made you waste: do, there's a good fellow."

"Well, then," said Wright, "I don't want to saddle you with an