DR. DARWIN. 



Alas ! the time had paffed "by in which 

 Mifs Seward was accuftomed to expeft a 

 letter from her friend ! 



Inquiry taught her that Lady Northelk 

 had perifhed by the dreadfully-frequent 

 accident of having fet fire to her clothes. 

 Lady Marianne Carnegie wrote to Mifs S. 

 the year after, and continued to honor her 

 with feveral letters while her Ladyfhip lived 

 with her father at Ethic Houfe, on the 

 ocean's edge. It was there that ihe de- 

 dicated many of her youthful years to 

 the pious endeavour of mitigating Lord 

 Northeik's deep anguifh for the lofs of his 

 Lady, which had induced him inflexibly 

 to renounce all fociety, except with his 

 own family. That might be faid of Ethic 

 Houfe which Dr. Johnfon faid of the 

 Ifle of Raafay, in the Hebrides. " Without 

 " were the dark rocks, the roaring winds, 

 " and tumultuous deep ;" but, alas fof 

 Lady Marianne ! it could not alfo be faid, 

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