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This reflection a few ti note-MY DEAR CORNELIA: I want to say so ive s, and sometimes, I do not knohat I say, even to those I love Bla to forgive iven Your ARENTA

"That will be sufficient," she reflected; "and after all, Cornelia is a sweet girl I am her first and dearest friend, and I ary to see those Van Dien girls, and those Sher in and out of the Moran house as if they owned Cornelia Well then, if I have had to eat humble pie, I have had my say, and that takes the bitter taste out of my mouth--and a sensible woman must look to her future I dare warrant, Cornelia is noering ive me very sweetly"

She spent half-an-hour in such reflections, and then Cornelia entered with a s face She would not perret; she stifled all her self-reproaches in an embrace, and she took her back with her to her own home And no further repentance embarrassed Arenta She put her ready wit, and her clever hands to a score of belated things; and snubbed and contradicted the Van Dien and Sherirls into a respectful obedience to her earlier friendship, and wider experience Everything that she directed, or took charge of, ith an unour to cohted with her ability, and grateful for her assistance

"The poor Arenta!" she said to Mrs Moran; "very helpful she is to us, and for her brother's fault she is not to bla it would be to visit it on her"

And Arenta not only felt this gracious justice for herself, she looked much further forward, for she said to her father, "It is really for Re By and by people will say 'there is no truth in that letter story The Marquise is the friend of Lady Hyde; they are like clasped hands, and that could not be so, if Re It is all nonsense' And if I hear a word about it, I shall kno to smile, and lift my shoulders, and kill suspicion with conte"