222 from Tsabellu'to Albert. Nov, 28. 
FROM ISABELLA TO ALBERT, 
‘LETTER FOURTH. 
1 pave now learnt the art of becoming beautiful, my 
dear brother ! I had got the secret before my last 
was written; but thinking you would be better 
pleased with Mrs Bruhl’s non descript, I postponed 
an account of it till now. ‘When I come home you 
will see if I profit by the lefsons I have got.——i 
dare not consult niy mirror; for that, it seems, would 
adifsolve the whole charm ;—the only mirror I am 
allowed to consult, when I wifh to know if my looks 
have attained the highest beauty of which they are 
capable, is the eye of the petsons who live in the 
same ‘family with myself ; every other substance 
that reflects the image of*a face is false, my kind in- . 
structor says, and highly fallacious ;—but this mir- 
ror, if properly consulted, will never deceive. I 
have not yet ventured ‘to consult directly that faith- 
“ful monitor here as yet, for fear of the consequen- 
ces; but I sometimes give a stolen glance at it as I 
pafs, like some ladies you have seen who eye them- 
selves afkance as they pafs the parlour mirror; and 
I begin to think that appearances are rather favour- 
-able than otherwise : but I must not be too Peel 
for fear of disappointments. 
We were not well set down at work next day af. 
ter I-wrote to you on that head, when I put Mrs 
Drury in mind of her promise ; for in the interval 
I had been reflecting on the subject, and was anxious 
to know if I had formed just notions on shat head. 
