Discipline - The Original Classic Edition. Brunton Mary

vulgar country roses--but living and speaking, like the roses in a poet's fancy.'

       'Well, that's better, go on.'

       'A sly, mischievous, dimple, that, Parthian-like, kills and is fled.'

       'You can guess flatteringly, I see.'

       'Yes; and truly too. Nature would never mould a form like this, and leave her work imperfect; therefore there is but one face that can belong to it; and that face is--Miss Percy's.'

       'And I think nature would never have bestowed such talents for flattery without giving a corresponding dauntlessness of countenance; and that I am persuaded belongs only to Lord Frederick de Burgh.'

       My attention was diverted from the Sultan's reply by a deep low voice, which, seemingly close to my ear, pronounced the words,

       'Use caution; you have need of it.' I started, and turned to see who had spoken; but a crowd of masks were round us, and I could not distinguish the speaker, I applied to Miss Arnold and the Turk, but neither of them had observed the circumstance. I was rather inclined to ascribe it to chance, not conceiving that any one present could be interested in advising me; yet the solemn tone in which the words were uttered, uniting with the impression which, almost unknown to myself, Miss Mortimer's averseness to my present situation had left upon my mind, I again grew anxious to find protection with Lady St Edmunds.