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.

22 CLARA HOWARD; OR,
ments. I am in hopes that time and reflection will instil
into you better principles. Till then, I shall not be displeased if your letter be confined to a mere narrative of
your journey. Adieu. CLARA HOWARD.
LETTER VII.
To Philip Stanley.
New York, April 5.
You were to leave Philadelphia on Tuesday, you told
me. I imagined the interval would be engrossed with
business, and therefore expected not to hear from you
till after that day; but that day and the whole week is
past, and no tidings.
This silence does not proceed from sullenness. I hope,
I persuade myself, it does not. Whatever anger you
conceived against me, let not that, I entreat you, make
you ungrateful to my father, cruel to your sisters, unjust
to yourself.
Letters have been hourly expected from you, relative to
concerns which you had in charge. Have you neglected
them? Have you betrayed your trust? Have you suffered an unmanly dejection to unfit you for this charge?
Have you committed any rashness?
Heaven forbid! Yet what but some fatal event has
occasioned this delay? Perhaps while I thus write to
you, you are
Let me not think of it. I shiver with deadly cold at
the thought. Thou art fiery and impetuous, my friend.
Thy spirit is not curbed by reason. There is no outrage
on discretion-no crime against thyself-into which thy
headlong spirit may not hurry thee.
Perhaps nmy last letter was harsh, unjust. My censures were too bitter. I made not suitable allowances for
your youth,-the force of that attachment which you own
for me. Knew I so little of my own nature, and the
illusions of passion, as to expect you to act and speak
with perfect wisdom?
Would to Heaven I had not written that letter, or that
I had sufficiently considered its contents before I sent it!