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"Oh! if all you doubt is my sincerity, I am easy: you see the

justice of the case?"

"I DO see a certain justice; but it is contrary to all custoained it by

his own efforts; he was free to leave it to whom he would: he left

it to you After all, justice permits you to keep it: you may,

with a clear conscience, consider it absolutely your own"

"Withas of

conscience: I s; I so seldoue, object, and annoy o the delicious pleasure of which I

have caught a gliation, and winning tofriends"

"You think so now," rejoined St John, "because you do not knohat

it is to possess, nor consequently to enjoy wealth: you cannot forive you; of

the place it would enable you to take in society; of the prospects

it would open to you: you cannot--"

"And you," I interrupted, "cannot at all i I have

for fraternal and sisterly love I never had a home, I never had