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Everything was looking at its brightest at this ht on the pewter dishes, and froht were thrown on ht brass--and on a still pleasanter object than these, for some of the rays fell on Dinah's finely moulded cheek, and lit up her pale red hair to auburn, as she bent over the heavy household linen which she wasfor her aunt No scene could have been s that still re a frequent clinking with her iron andthe keen glance of her blue-grey eye fro up the butter, and fro the pies out of the oven Do not suppose, however, that Mrs Poyser was elderly or shrewish in her appearance; she was a good-looking woht-and-thirty, of fair coht-footed The most conspicuous article in her attire was an ample checkered linen apron, which al could be plainer or less noticeable than her cap and gown, for there was no weakness of which she was less tolerant than feminine vanity, and the preference of ornament to utility The family likeness between her and her niece Dinah Morris, with the contrast between her keenness and Dinah's seraphic gentleness of expression, estion for a Martha and Mary Their eyes were just of the sa test of the difference in their operation was seen in the demeanour of Trip, the black-and-tan terrier, whenever thatarctic ray of Mrs Poyser's glance Her tongue was not less keen than her eye, and, whenever a damsel came within earshot, seean takes up a tune, precisely at the point where it had left off

The fact that it was churning day was another reason why it was inconvenient to have the whittaws, and why, consequently, Mrs Poyser should scold Molly the houseot through her after-dinner work in an exereat dispatch, and now came to ask, sub ti to Mrs Poyser, shrouded a secret indulgence of unbecoed forth and held up to Molly's vieith cutting eloquence