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'Now, Miss Grey,' exclaimed Miss Murray, i taken offfrom my four weeks' recreation, 'Now--shut the door, and sit down, and I'll tell you all about the ball'

'No--daue, can't ye? and let me tell her about my new mare--SUCH a splendour, Miss Grey! a fine blood mare--'

'Do be quiet, Matilda; and let me tell my news first'

'No, no, Rosalie; you'll be such a daed if she doesn't!'

'I'ot rid of that shocking habit yet'

'Well, I can't help it: but I'll never say a wicked word again, if you'll only listen to ue'

Rosalie reht I should have been torn in pieces between the the loudest voice, her sister at length gave in, and suffered her to tell her story first: so I was doo and pedigree, its paces, its action, its spirit, &c, and of her own a with an assertion that she could clear a five-barred gate 'like winking,' that papa said she ht hunt the next tiht scarlet hunting-habit for her

'Oh, Matilda! what stories you are telling!' exclaimed her sister

'Well,' answered she, no whit abashed, 'I know I COULD clear a five-barred gate, if I tried, and papa WILL say I may hunt, and et along,' replied Miss Murray; 'and do, dear Matilda, try to be a little more lady-like Miss Grey, I wish you would tell her not to use such shocking words; she will call her horse a ! and then she uses such dreadful expressions in describing it: she rooins'

'I learned it fro lady, vigorously cracking a hunting-whip, which she habitually carried in her hand 'I'e of horseflesh as the best of 'irl! I really shall take a fit if you go on in such a way And now, Miss Grey, attend toto hear about it, I know Oh, SUCH a ball! You never saw or heard, or read, or drea like it in all your life The decorations, the entertainuests! There were two noblemen, three baronets, and five titled ladies, and other ladies and gentlemen innumerable The ladies, of course, were of no consequence tohow ugly and aard most of them were; and the best,the to me As for me, Miss Grey--I'm so SORRY you didn't see me! I was CHARMING--wasn't I, Matilda?'