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"I was little e and went abroad with my only brother, the John or Jack of whom you have so often heard Both himself and ere in delicate health, and it was hoped a voyage across the sea would do theland, stopping for twothe visitors, was afrom the vicinity of Alnwick, and with her an orphan niece who beauty attracted my youthful fancy She was not happy with her aunt, upon whom she holly dependent, andin her lustrous eyes, she one day accidentally stumbled upon her trouble and toldif in A for her to do

"It was at this tiirl ent out with us, wasit necessary for Hatty to find so of this, Genevra caht offered herself as half co was preferable to the life she led, she said, pleading so hard that Hatty, after an intervieith the old aunt--a purse-proud, vulgar woe--consented to receive her, and Genevra became one of our family, an equal rather than a menial, whom Hatty treated with as much consideration as if she had been a sister I wish I could tell you how beautiful Genevra Lambert was at that period of her life I have her picture, which I will show you by and by, but it will not convey an adequate idea of her as she was then, with her brilliant English complexion, her eyes so full of poetry and passion, her perfect features, and, more than all, the wondrous smile, which would have made a plain face handsoh of coquetry about her to fascinate and turn older heads than mine

"Of course I came to love her, and loved her all the more for the opposition I knew hter of an English apothecary, and one as voluntarily filling a servant's place But with ; and when Genevra told me of a base fellow, as she terht her for his wife, and still pursued her with his letters, my passions all were roused, and I offered myself at once I do not think she anticipated this when she told ht see nor artful, but, on the contrary, wholly open-hearted and truthful, tellingover it and insisted upon knowing the cause Her answer to my offer was a decided refusal She knew her position, she said, and she knewwhich proe, she was older in judgment and experience, and she seemed to understand the difference between our relative positions I was not indifferent to her, she said, and were she ht be otherwise than the decided no