The doctor told me, that Sir Charles had made inquiries after the marriage of Major O’Hara with Mrs. Jervois, and had satisfied himself that they were actually man and wife.  Methinks I am glad for Miss Jervois’s sake, that her mother has changed her name.  They lived not happily together since their last enterprise:  for the man, who had long been a sufferer from poverty, was in fear of losing one half at least of his wife’s annuity, by what passed on that occasion; and accused her of putting him upon the misbehaviour he was guilty of; which had brought upon him, he said, the resentments of a man admired by all the world.

The attorney, who visited Sir Charles from these people, at their request, waited on him again, in their names, with hopes that they should not suffer in their annuity, and expressing their concern for having offended him.

Mrs. O’Hara also requested it as a favour to see her daughter.

Sir Charles commissioned the attorney, who is a man of repute, to tell them, that if Mrs. O’Hara would come to St. James’s-square next Wednesday about five o’clock, Miss Jervois should be introduced to her; and she should be welcome to bring with her her husband, and Captain Salmonet, that they might be convinced he bore no ill-will to either of them.

Adieu, till by and by.  Miss Grandison is come, in one of her usual hurries, to oblige me to be present at the visit to be made her this afternoon, by the Earl of G——­ and Lady Gertrude, his sister, a maiden lady advanced in years, who is exceedingly fond of her nephew, and intends to make him heir of her large fortune.

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FRIDAY NIGHT.

The earl is an agreeable man:  Lady Gertrude is a very agreeable woman.  They saw Miss Grandison with the young lord’s eyes; and were better pleased with her, as I told her afterwards, than I should have been, or than they would, had they known her as well as I do.  She doubted not, she answered me, but I should find fault with her; and yet she was as good as for her life she could be.

Such an archness in every motion!  Such a turn of the eye to me on my Lord G——­’s assiduities!  Such a fear in him of her correcting glance!  Such a half-timid, half-free parade when he had done any thing that he intended to be obliging, and now and then an aiming at raillery, as if he was not very much afraid of her, and dared to speak his mind even to her!  On her part, on those occasions, such an air, as if she had a learner before her; and was ready to rap his knuckles, had nobody been present to mediate for him; that though I could not but love her for her very archness, yet in my mind, I could, for their sakes, but more for her own, have severely chidden her.

She is a charming woman; and every thing she says and does becomes her.  But I am so much afraid of what may be the case, when the lover is changed into the husband, that I wish to myself now and then, when I see her so lively, that she would remember that there was once such a man as Captain Anderson.  But she makes it a rule, she says, to remember nothing that will vex her.