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"I did tell Lady Teht not to

let people knohat sort of person they have to teach their children"

And Grace, on feeling her way, discovered that Lady Temple had been told

the bare fact in Miss Willia of the affair that had led to it She merely looked on it

in the ; how sad for her!"

as a shocking secret, never to be talked of or thought about And that

voluntary detailed relation froarded as drawn

forth by Grace's own individual power of winning confidence, and the

friendliness that had so long subsisted between the the cause of the present reduced circumstances of the

sisters at all lessened; it was only known that their brother had ruined

them by a fraudulent speculation, and had then fled to the Continent,

leaving them burthened with the maintenance of his child, but that they

refused to believe in his guilt, and had thus incurred the displeasure

of other relatives and friends Alison was utterly silent about hi in a reference to

his ways as if all ell, and it were a matter of course to speak of

"Edward;" but it was plain that Erht, however, be only because the one had been a guarded, sheltered

invalid, while the other had gone forth aers to battle for

a livelihood, and rown and

developed before the shock which had come on the still unforot on" with the governess, while the

invalid nally with

Rachel, who, ere long, esteeood work, worthy of

herself The charity of sitting with a twaddling,old