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"What shall I wear?"

"Wear? Well, I think that dark brown satin is the owns--and dress your hair behind very high and loosely, with the

carved shell coie, push them behind

your pretty ears; your face does not need thehed She liked handsome dress, and it pleased her to be called

handsoood many womanly foibles, and was perhaps the

ht that a man who did not care

for his dinner would not care for s; and it is certain

that a woman who does not care for her dress is very likely to be a

nalize her delight in her uncle's visit by going down

stairs to dine with him; but the day was unusually da opposition that she resigned the idea

She dressed herself early in a pretty chaown of pink silk trimmed

with minever; but in spite of the rosy color, the pallor of her sickness

and long confine

John Cae

hurrying off to meet it, as she went to her room to dress for dinner In

less than an hour there was the stir of an arrival, and John Campbell's

slow, heavy tread upon the stairs, and Mary's cry of joy as shewith an increase of happiness; she felt Mary's

pleasure as if it were her own With a natural and exquisite taste, she

raised high the loose soft coils of her nut-brovn hair; and let fall in