The pleasure evinced by Sir Charles was only less than that of his lady, and, as he appeared every way worthy of her, and sensible of her value, Mr. Glentworth bade her adieu with the more cheerfulness, and, on their return to the hotel, Isabella had ceased to lament the transaction, and all agreed to praise that promptitude of action which had enabled him to perform his wishes so happily. Lord Allerton founded on this a plea for hastening his marriage, as at Marseilles there was every convenience for that purpose, and after a certain time Mary consented, preferring the greater privacy, to be insured to the éclat of the ambassador's chapel in Paris, towards which capital they afterwards slowly journeyed, taking Switzerland in their way, at that season when its sublime horrors were witnessed to the greatest advantage, and its internal accommodations secured most effectually, because sought by few—they might, indeed, be said to be the only travellers to be found willing to "sup their fill of horrors."
Although to Isabella Glentworth related every particular of his first affecting interview with her he now called sister, and dwelt on every lineament in her person, which recalled his father to his memory, or allied her to himself, a narrative that evidently cost him much, yet Isabella remarked that he seldom recurred to Lady Osmond, even cursorily,
