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I have only been out for a year Mrs Carruthers got an attack of bronchitis when I was eighteen, just as ere going up to town for the season, and said she did not feel well enough for the fatigues, and off ent to Switzerland And in the autuhed and groaned, and the next season would not go up until the last court, so I have only had a ot perfectly well--it was heart-failure that killed her, brought on by an attack of temper because Thomas broke the Carruthers vase I shall not write of her death, or the finding of the will, or the surprise that I was left nothing but a thousand pounds and a dia

Now that I aood to chronicle all that! Sufficient to say if Mr Carruthers does not obey his orders and offer me his hand this afternoon, I shall have to pack my trunks and depart by Saturday, but where to is yet in the lap of the gods

He is co by the 320 train, and will be in the house before four, an ugly, dull ti and exciting

He is co ostensibly to take over his place, I suppose, but in reality it is to look at me, and see if in any way he will be able to persuade himself to carry out his aunt's wishes I wonder what it will be like to be reatly acquainted yet with the ways of men We have not had any that you could call that here, s, in the autue with Mrs Carruthers The , such antiques they were! Some politicians and ambassadors, and creatures of that sort; anddown the passage to the school-roohtest provocation, and say such things! I a else,one I had the last four years, but I hated her There was never any one young and hu out in London, but being so late, every one was preoccupied e got there, and no one got in love with me much Indeed, ent out very little; a part of the tih, and people don't look at girls with swollen noses