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"Yes," said the Colonel; "I was recollecting the gracious vision she

used to be at all our chief's parties"

"Vision, you call her, who lived in the house with her? What do you

think she was to us--poor wretches--cohnessy was our cynosure? There was not one of us to whom she

was not Queen of the East, and nity of hers!"

"And Sir Stephen for the first of her vassals," said the Colonel

"What a change it has been!" said Alick

"Yes; but a change that has shown her to have been unspoilable We were

just agreeing on the ball-room perfections of her and your sister in

their several lines"

"Very different lines," said Alick, se of Fanny's," said Rachel, "but your sister is alh tolady life"

"I did not bring Bessie here to convert you," was the so answer

"Nor has she," said Rachel, "except so far as I see that she can follow

ordinary girls' pursuits without being frivolous in them" Alick bowed

at the compliment

"And she has been a sunbearaver

and cloudier without her"

"Yes," said Colonel Keith, "and I ae What a blessing she will be there!" he added, as he

watched Bessie's graceful way of explaining to his brother soirl Thinking he ht be