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his heart that Mrs Glibbans was not present He was not aware that Miss

Mally had an orthodox corn, or bunyan, that could as little bear a touch

froout of poleumfiated every mental joint and member of that

zealous prop of the Relief Kirk This was indeed the tender point of

Miss Mally's character; for she was left unplucked on the stalk of single

blessedness, owing entirely to a conversation on this very subject with

the only lover she ever had, Mr Dalgliesh, for parish of Dintonknow He happened incidentally to observe,

that education was requisite to proion But

Miss Mally, on that occasion, jocularly maintained, that education had

only a tendency to proht, was a sneer at hi some time before unfortunately

published a short tract, entitled, "The moral union of our temporal and

eternal interests considered, with respect to the establishment of

parochial seminaries," and which fell still-born from the press He

therefore retorted with some acrimony, until, from less to more, Miss

Mally ordered him to keep his distance; upon which he bounced out of the

roo, however,

and excepting this particular dogma, Miss Mally was on all other topics

as liberal and beneficent as could be expected froed to eke out her stinted inco econorass was not,

however, lengthened into acrimony; for immediately after the remark which

we have noticed, she proposed that they should call on Miss Isabella Tod

to see Rachel's letter; indeed, this was rendered necessary by the state

of the fire, for after boiling the kettle she had allowed it to fall low

It was her nightly practice after tea to take her evening seahbours' houses, by which she saved both

coal and candle, while she acquired the news of the day, and was

occasionally invited to stay supper