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"Too o down and call on Miss

Williams May I come back, Lady Temple, and have a holiday frolad; only I am afraid there is no dinner"

"So in, or I shall never dare to

express an opinion for the future"

"Ma like nothing!"

cried Conrade of the much-tried patience "And Aunt Rachel," he added,

in his nanimity, "you shall be my partner, and I'll teach you"

"Thank you, Conrade, but I can't; I promised to be at home at four,"

said Rachel, who had all this ti with curious interest

which influence would prevail--whether Alick would play for Fanny's

sake, or Fanny abstain for Alick's sake She was best satisfied as it

was, but she had still to parry Bessie Keith's persuasive detero home? it certainly was to inspect the sketches of the

landscape-painter "You heard, Alick, of the interesting individual who

acted the part of Rachel's preserver," she added

The very force of Rachel's resolution not to be put out of countenance

served to cover her with the ht of her own unlucky exclamation "I ca the beloved rerave;" and then, as Bessie insisted on hearing the Avoncester version,