He becomes Chaplain to the Duchess of Daventry.

cence and dignity should always be kept up in the style of living that nobles adopted: the church, also, she looked upon as one of the firmest pillars of the state; and that its ceremonies ought to be attended to, with exactitude and precision, and not hurried over in a slovenly

manner.

Through the recommendation of some noble friends, young Grosvenor was appointed one of her Grace's chaplains; she, at that time, much wished to have one of these her chaplains reside in her house, and perform duty in her own chapel, in that correct way she so desired; but they were married men, and she did not like to take them from their families: pleased with the easy and gentleman-like appearance of young Grosvenor, as one whom her sons and herself could take by the hand in any party, she fixed her choice upon him as her resident chaplain.

His highly proper Conduct.

On his first arrival, he was shewn into a parlour, where there were two or three blooming young ladies, daughters to the Duchess, seated round a table, and all employed in drawing. On a high musicstool, before a piano-forte, sat a little romp, between twelve and thirteen years age, who was incorrectly rattling over the keys, but ceased on the entrance of the stranger at that time, how little did he imagine this little smiling creature would ever be so nearly and so dearly united to him!

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The Duchess was charmed with her new inmate, who became the reigning favourite of the house; she found him the profound scholar, without the smallest rust of the College attached to him for he could trifle, laugh, and talk nonsense, by the hour.

The polish of his manners seemed fit only for the drawing-room; but he would

He is a Pattern of Goodness.

enter the miserable huts of abject poverty, speak kindly comfortable to the inhabitants, and adapt his elegant language to their understanding; while from his scanty purse he would give all he could spare if those gay pleasures which always have charms for a young and cheerful mind, and which he ever loved and took in moderation, if these interfered. with the sick couch that required spiritual comfort, or the last moments of the dying victim of sickness and indigence, they were readily given up for the performance of his duty; and whilst he was the least rigid, the least puritanical, of any man in the world, an oath was not known by his most intimate friends and connexions ever to have escaped his lips.

He had lived three years with this charming family, in the sweetest harmony of society, grateful to, and befriended by, them all. But in Lady Madelina Graham, the youngest daughter, he dis

His Portrait faithfully drawn.

covered a similarity of taste, of thought, and sentiment; Lady Madelina had indeed found a kindred mind: never was woman possessed of more sense than she is.

Grosvenor was not literally an handsome man, but he had a great sweetness of countenance, a good figure, and had that elegant ease in his deportment which marked the gentleman. He thought himself heart-whole; but he felt it stealing away from him: he found he could not see, with indifference, the progressive developement of a mind inclosed in a form, which every year had unfolded some improved attraction to the admiring eye; she was, then, like the early unexpanded rose, which flourishing under a mild sun, and nurtured with care, daily increases in sweetness and beauty.

Honour urged his flight from so dangerous an object: should he, said he to himself, plunge unceasing regret into the

Himself a Painter.

bosom of her excellent mother for having fostered an ungrateful viper, who in return would sting her? Shall an union with Lady Madelina ever dare even to find a place in his thought! He, whose scanty portion would scarce support himself! She, who might behold a train of wealthy nobles at her feet, and choose amongst them at her pleasure.

But how could he quit these truly noble patrons? what pretence could he make for so strange a proceeding? and how ungrateful should he appear in their eyes?

Grosvenor excelled in the art of painting Lady Madelina had improved her taste for drawing under his tuition; and he had commenced with a course of instructions for painting in oil colours: she had began the design of a beautiful church, with a distant view of the stately mausoleum of her father. The excuses