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Winston Aylett, owner and tenant of the ancient hborhood where sone North about the first

of June, upon a tour of indefinite length, but which was certainly

to include Newport, the lakes, and Niagara, and was still absent

His aunt, Mrs Sutton, and his only sister, Mabel, did the honors of

his home in his stead, and, if the truth uests than he had ever succeeded in doing For

a week past, the house had been tolerably well filled--ditto Mrs

Sutton's hands; ditto her great, heart Had she not three love

affairs, in different but encouraging stages of progression, under

her roof and her patronage! And were not all three, to her

apprehension, , and her

co-operation? A devout Episcopalian, she was yet an unquestioning

believer in predestination and "special Providences"--and what but

Providence had brought together the dear creatures now basking in

the benignant bea s breezes of Circuar and cream into the cups intended for the happy

pairs, she reviewed the situation rapidly in her mind, and sketched

the day's manoeuvres

First, there was the case of Tohly

satisfactory and creditable to all the parties concerned in it, but

not ro planter, who had studied lahile

at the University, but never practised it, being already provided

for by his opulent father, had visited his relatives, the Tabbs, in

August, and straightway fallen in love with the one single daughter

of his second cousin--a pretty, airl, ould inherit a

neat fortune at her parent's death, and whose pedigree becaenerations back,