The novels of Charles Brockden Brown, consisting of Wieland;or, The transformation. Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the year 1793. Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a sleep-walker. Jane Talbot. Ormond; or, The secret witness. Clara Howard; or, The enthusiasm of love. With a memoir of the author.

5:0 JANE TALBOT.
your hand pressed to my forehead would give? Let me
lay down the pen and try.
Ah! my friend! when present, thou'rt an excellent
physician; but as thy presence is my cure, so thy absence
is my only, my fatal malady.
My desk is, of late, always open; my paper spread; my
pen moist. I must talk to you, though you give me no
answer, though I have nothing but gloomy forebodings
to communicate, or mournful images to call up. I must
talk to you, even when you cannot hear; when invisible;
when distant many a mile. It is some relief even to corporal agonies. Even the pain which I just now complained of is lessened since I took up the pen. Oh, Hal!
Hal! if you ever prove ungrateful or a traitor to me,
and there be a state retributive hereafter, terrible will be
thy punishment.
But why do I talk to thee thus wildly? Why deal I in
such rueful prognostics? I want to tell you why, for I
have a reason for my present alarms: they all spring from
one source,-my doubts of thy fidelity. Yes, Henry,
since your arrival at Wilmington you have been a frequent
visitant of Miss Seeker, and have kept a profound silence
towards me.
Nothing can be weaker and more silly than these disquiets. Cannot my friend visit a deserving woman a few
times but my terrors must impertinently intrude? —Cannot he forget the pen, and fail to write to me, for half a
week together, but my rash resentments must conjure up
the phantoms of ingratitude and perfidy?
Pity the weakness of a fond heart, Henry, and let me
hear from you, and be your precious and long-withheld
letter my relief from every disquiet. I believe, and do
not believe, what I have heard, and what I have heard
teems with a thousand mischiefs, or is fair and innocent,
according to my reigning temper.-Adieu; but let me
hear from you immediately.