already said, the common feeling in the escape of the new-married couple had broken the ice, and less restraint existed between the passengers, at the moment when Mr. Grab left the ship, than would have been the case at the end of a week, under ordinary circumstances. Eve Effingham had passed her time since her eleventh year principally on the continent of Europe, and in the mixed intercourse that is common to strangers in that part of the world; or, in other words, equally without the severe restraint that is usually imposed there on the young of her own sex, or without the extreme licence that is granted to them at home. She came of a family too well toned to run into the extravagant freedoms that sometimes pass for easy manners in America, had she never quitted her father's house even: but her associations abroad had unavoidably imparted greater reserve to her ordinary deportment than the simplicity of cis-Atlantic usages would have rendered indispensable in the most fastidious circles. With the usual womanly reserves, she was natural and

unembarrassed in her intercourse with the world, and she had been allowed to see so many different nations, that she had obtained a self-confidence that did her no injury, under the influence of an exemplary education, and great natural dignity of mind. Still, Mademoiselle Viefville, notwithstanding she had lost some of her own peculiar notions on the subject, by having passed so many years in an American family, was a little surprised at observing that Eve received the respectful advances of Mr. Sharp and Mr. Blunt with less reserve than it was usual to her to manifest to an entire stranger. Instead of remaining a mere listener, she had answered several remarks of the first, and once or twice she had even laughed with him openly at some absurdity of the committee of five. The cautious governess wondered, but, half disposed to fancy that there was no more than the necessary freedom of a ship in it all,-for, like a true French-woman, Mademoiselle Viefville had very vague notions of the secrets of the mighty deep-she permitted it to pass, confiding in the long-tried taste

and discretion of her charge. While Mr. Sharp discoursed with Eve, who held her arm the while, she herself had fallen into an animated conversation with Mr. Blunt, who walked at her side, and who spoke her own language so well, that she at first set him down as a countryman of her own, travelling under an English appellation as a nom de guerre. While this dialogue was at its height of interest for Paul Blunt discoursed with his companion aptly on Paris and its excellences with a skill that soon absorbed all her attention, "Paris, ce magnifique Paris," having almost as much influence on the happiness of the governess, as it was said to have had on that of Madame de Stael;-Eve's companion dropped his voice to a tone that was rather confidential for a stranger, although it was perfectly respectful, and said,

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"I have flattered myself, perhaps through the influence of self-love alone, that Miss Effingham has not so far forgotten all whom she has met in her travels as to think me an utter

stranger".

"Certainly not," returned Eve with perfect simplicity and composure; "else would one of my faculties, that of memory, be perfectly useless. I knew you at a glance, and consider the worthy captain's introduction as so much finesse of breeding utterly thrown away."

"I am equally gratified and vexed at all this; gratified and infinitely flattered to find I have not passed before your eyes like the common herd, who leave no traces of even their features behind them; and vexed at finding myself in a situation that, I fear, you fancy excessively ridiculous ?"

“Oh, one hardly dare to attach such consequences to acts of young men, or young women either, in an age as original as our own. I saw nothing particularly absurd but the introduction;-and so many absurder have since passed, that this is almost forgotten." "And the name— - ?"

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Is certainly a keen one. If I am not mistaken, when we were in Italy you were content to let your servant bear it; but, ven

turing among a people so noted for sagacity as the Yankees, I suppose you have fancied it was necessary to go armed cap-à-pié."

Both laughed lightly, as if they equally enjoyed the pleasantry, and then he resumed. "But I sincerely hope you do not impute improper motives to the incognito ?"

"I impute it to that which makes many young men run from Rome to Vienna, or from Vienna to Paris; which causes you to sell the vis-à-vis to buy a dormeuse; to know your friends to-day, and to forget them to-morrow; or, in short, to do a hundred other things that can be accounted for on no other motive."

"And this motive—?”

"Is simply caprice."

"I wish I could persuade you to ascribe some better reason to all my conduct. Can you think of nothing, in the present instance, less discreditable ?"

"Perhaps I can," Eve answered, after a moment of thought; then laughing slightly again, she added quickly, "But I fear, in exonerating you from the charge of unmiti