tion arrives, we pause; we linger;-for once again we remember our home, our country, our friends; and who is there so friendless and destitute, or so unfeeling, as to cut these ties, though but for a time, without regret?
Nothing material occurred on the road to Brighton, except, that in the course of conversation with an agreeable and handsome young lady, on the same route as myself, for the benefit of sea-bathing, she observed that she never rose before four o'clock in the afternoon-a remark by no means calculated to inspire any high idea of her mental energy. How soon, and sadly, did pity succeed, when shortly after she explained her being under the care of two eminent surgeons of the metropolis for a supposed spinal affection, which had already enlarged one side, and appeared to increase. To remain in bed as much as possible, or in a recumbent posture almost continually, was the sad alternative prescribed; and this complaint produced in the exuberance of youthful spirits, by trying, one night, after returning from the Opera, to rival the dancing she had just seen.
Can those who are yet exempt from such sad and overwhelming catastrophes, who still enjoy their inestimable limbs and invaluable health: can such, I say, fret and be wretched at the comparative trifles and nothingnesses of life, while still possessing those boundless blessings?.