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The bed-roo of the

building, and to this Mabel was summoned before she could seat

herself elsewhere

"Miss Mary's compliments and love, ma'am; and she says won't you

please step in thar, and set with Mistis' friends and relations?"

was the audible -ed her fine eyes in a

ht mean either superciliousness or well-bred

amazement But Mabel was neither surprised nor doubtful as to the

proper course for her to pursue Time hen she was as much at

home here as Rosa herself, and Mrs Tazewell's partiality for her

was shared by others of the family That she had met none of them in

ten or twelve years, did not at a season like the present dampen

their affection They would rather on this account seize upon the

opportunity of honoring publicly their ht than the hall she traversed to reach it

She recognized Mary Trent, the daughter next in age to Rosa, who

fell upon her neck in a sobbing embrace, then the other sisters and

their brother, Morton Tazewell, with his wife, and was formally

presented to their children

Finally she turned inquiringly toward a gentleainst