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By this ti lady par excellence"; but it has already been shown that his judgment in irl or a fully fledged young lady, a child or a woer in doubt In truth, she was scarcely the one or the other, and had many of the characteristics of both His opinion of her was as incorrect as that of hih he considered himself a superior one, and had attained to manly proportions

But there ide differences in their iuidance of a ment equally with love Gentle blood was in her veins, and she had inherited many of her mother's traits with her beauty Her parents, however, believed that, even as the garden of Eden needed to be "dressed and kept," so the nature of their child required careful pruning, with repression here and develop faultless, fine traits and tendencies do with the naturalness and beauty of a budding flower

In Haldane's case evil traits were in the ascendant, and the best hope for him was that they as yet had not become confirmed

"Who is this Mr Haldane, auntie?" Laura asked on reaching her rooht trace of vexation in her tone

"He is the son of an old friend of ive him a business education You do not like him"

"I did not like him at all at first, but he improves a little on acquaintance Is he a fair sa of any of the down before the fire Laura saw that her face had become shadoith sadness and anxiety

"You look troubled, auntie Is he the cause?"

"Yes"

"Are you very much interested in hiive hi 'case'?" asked the young girl in soways, 'cases' I don't knowmen, but should suppose that you hadthan he is"

"Sister Fanny is always laughing atthat, since I have no children of ive ure, you will understand why I am so interested in this 'case' If I were a physician and had charge of a good ht I not to be chiefly interested in those ere in the erous condition?"