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I made many and various attempts to delivertheir pride--which was easily offended, and not soon appeased--but with little apparent result; and I know not which was the more reprehensible of the two: Matilda was e and lady-like exterior better things were expected: yet she was as provokingly careless and inconsiderate as a giddy child of twelve

One bright day in the last week of February, I alking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather; for Miss Matilda had set out on her daily ride, and Miss Murray was gone in the carriage with her ht to leave these selfish pleasures, and the park with its glorious canopy of bright blue sky, the ind sounding through its yet leafless branches, the snoreaths still lingering in its hollows, buton itsthe freshness and verdure of spring--and go to the cottage of one Nancy Brown, a hose son was at work all day in the fields, and as afflicted with an inflammation in the eyes; which had for sorief, for she was a woly went, and found her alone, as usual, in her little, close, dark cottage, redolent of smoke and confined air, but as tidy and clean as she couldof a few red cinders and a bit of stick), busily knitting, with a small sackcloth cushion at her feet, placed for the accoentle friend the cat, as seated thereon, with her long tail half encircling her velvet paws, and her half-closed eyes drea on the low, crooked fender

'Well, Nancy, how are you to-day?'

'Why, , Miss, i' myseln--my eyes is no better, but I'm a deal easier i'to welcolad to see, for Nancy had been soratulated her upon the change She agreed that it was a great blessing, and expressed herself 'right down thankful for it'; adding, 'If it please God to spare ain, I think I shall be as happy as a queen'