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"I don't know at all And she is not in the least evangelical," said

Rosaious point of vieould have

fully accounted for perpetual crape "And, not poor," she added, after

a e! They are as rich as Jews, those Waules and

Featherstones; IAnd yet they hang aboutaway from their side of the family But I

believe he hates the admirable in the eyes of these

distant connections, had happened to say this very(not at all

with a defiant air, but in a low, h cotton wool) that she did not wish "to enjoy their good

opinion" She was seated, as she observed, on her own brother's hearth,

and had been Jane Featherstone five-and-twenty years before she had

been Jane Waule, which entitled her to speak when her own brother's

naht to it

"What are you driving at there?" said Mr Featherstone, holding his

stick between his knees and settling his hile he gave her a