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Ashamed upon reflection to believe she was considered as an object of envy by others, while repining and discontented herself, she deters within her reach, but by projecting and adopting sos than the frivolous insipidity of her present life, to make at once a more spirited and more worthy use of the affluence, freedom, and pohich she possessed

A scheme of happiness at once rational and refined soon presented itself to her iination She purposed, for the basis of her plan, to become mistress of her own ti acquaintance, hile they contribute neither to use nor pleasure, e a part of the community, that they may properly be called the underminers of existence; she could then shew some taste and discernment in her choice of friends, and she resolved to select such only as by their piety could elevate her , or by their accoulation, if strictly adhered to, would soon relieve her fro ht have all the leisure she could desire for the pursuit of her favourite studies,thus, from her own estimation of human perfection, culled whatever was noblest for her society, and froed the occupations of her hours of solitude, she felt fully satisfied with the portion of happiness which her schean next to consider as due fro did she then look forward to the claims which the splendid incoe A strong sense of DUTY, a fervent desire to ACT RIGHT, were the ruling characteristics of her mind: her affluence she therefore considered as a debt contracted with the poor, and her independence as a tie upon her liberality to pay it with interest

Many and various, then, soothing to her spirit and grateful to her sensibility, were the scenes which her fancy delineated; now she supported an orphan, now softened the sorrows of asnatched from iniquity the feeble treler with disgrace The prospect at once exalted her hopes, and enraptured her ient of Charity, and already in idea anticipated the rewards of a good and faithful delegate; so anins of disinterested benevolence! so pure is the bliss of intellectual philanthropy!