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.

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CLARA HOWARD; OR,

things turn up so that you and her should be married
already at that time; and that, I remember, was just as
your time was up. But Molly" (with a very significant
air this was said) " has carried her goods to a much worse
market, it seems."
"Why, know you any thing of Miss Wilmot?"
" Why, I don't know but as I does. I doesn't know
much to her advantage, though, you may depend, Philip."
I was startled:-" What do you know of her? Tell
me, I beseech you, all you know."
"Why, I don't know much,-not I; but Peggy, my
nurse, said something or other about her yesterday. She
drank tea with me "
"Pray," said I, impatiently, "what said your nurse
of Miss Wilmot?"
"Why, I don't know as I ought to tell."
But I will not tease you, Clara, as I was tired with
the jargon of the old woman. I will give you the sum
of her intelligence in my own words.
The nurse had lately been in the family of Mr. Kalm,
of Germantown, between which and that of Mrs. Valentine I have long known that much intimacy subsisted.
Sedley, it seems, passed through this city about three
weeks ago, and spent a day at Mr. Kalm's. At dinner,
when the nurse was present, the conversation turned upon
the marriage of Sedley, which, it seems, was just concerted with the daughter of a wealthy family in Virginia.
The lady's name was mentioned, but the nurse forgot it.
Mrs. Kalm, who is noted for the freedom of her discourse, reminded Mr. Sedley of the mantuamaker who
eloped with him from Abingdon last autumn, and jestingly inquired into her present condition. Sedley dealt
in hints and inuendoes, which imported that he was on
as good terms with Molly Wilmot as he desired to be;
that all his wishes with respect to her were now accomplished; that she knew her own interest too well to allow
any obstruction to his marriage to come from her; that
she would speedily resume her customary station in society, as the cause of her present disappearance was
likely to be soon removed.
I will not torment you or myself by dwelling on fur