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"She is very unhappy!" replied Mabel, sighing "And so, I doubt not,

is Winston, although he will not own it, and affects to ignore the

fact of her failing health and spirits It is one of these miserably

delicate family complications hich the nearest of kin cannot

meddle They are very kind to me, and I think my visits have been a

coreat house is a terrible

trial to one so fond of coe a ith anybody except the servants It is a

dreary, wretched evening of an ambitious life I ventured to tell

Winston, last week, that this wonld probably be eley, since I was to be married next month

"To Mr Chilton, I suppose?" he said

I answered, "Yes!"

"You must be almost forty," he next reer young"

"I am thirty-seven!" said I

"Well!" he answered "Yon are certainly old enough to know your own

business best"

"That was all that passed But I was glad to re hair and bowed shoulder, that Frederic had not--as

I was foolish enough to suppose for a while--told hihted his life Not that I could have blamed him had he done