It was this family who found the lodging for them, and who have with unwearied kindness visited them since.-I am sorry I cannot recollect the name."
They seem extremely sensible of the kindness they have received from a family of the name of-, I cannot now recollect the name-but I understand them to be related to the nobleman with whose hounds we were out, and to live about two miles from the village. "Well, then, let us go," said D'Alonville, "for though I hope and believe that this wandering family of our luckless acquaintance de Touranges, is not so distressed as to need pecuniary assistance, yet it cannot but be advantageous to them to be known by people of consequence in England. "Probably it might be much more," replied Ellesmere "were I a Frenchman but I have not been accustomed to consider married women as objects of gallantry, having had neither a foreign nor a fashionable education." "I know the influence of beauty in distress, my friend," said he, "and I assure you, you will not find that of the young Marquisse less dangerous that that of your fair Polonese." He readily, however, assented to Ellesmere's wish of going with him to wait on them and with a melancholy smile bade him beware of the fascinating eyes of the younger Madame de Touranges. D'Alonville, who was not so sanguine as to the reception they might meet with, felt all the generosity of his friend, but did not seem in haste to avail himself of it. He would write to his mother and sisters-he would carry the two ladies to Eddisbury. He proposed for this purpose a thousand projects in a moment. WHEN Ellesmere learned the circumstances that had happened the evening before, he became as eager as D'Alonville, or if possible more so, to offer to the unhappy strangers every service he could render them. That once was mistress of the field, and flourished,
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