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All chance s on week-days were likewise carefully prevented; for, lest I should go to see poor Nancy Brown or any other person, Miss Murray took good care to provide sufficient employ to finish, some music to copy, or so in anything beyond a short walk about the grounds, however she or her sister ht and waylaid Mr Weston, they returned in high glee to give ain,' said Matilda, in spite of her sister's silent but iue 'He wondered why you were never with us, and thought you must have delicate health, as you came out so seldo!'

'Oh, Rosalie, what a lie! He did, you know; and you said--Don't, Rosalie--hang it!--I won't be pinched so! And, Miss Grey, Rosalie told him you were quite well, but you were always so buried in your books that you had no pleasure in anything else'

'What an idea he ht

'And,' I asked, 'does old Nancy ever inquire aboutand drawing that you can do nothing else'

'That is not the case though; if you had told her I was so busy I could not come to see her, it would have been nearer the truth'

'I don't think it would,' replied Miss Murray, suddenly kindling up; 'I'm sure you have plenty of ti to do'

It was no use beginning to dispute with such indulged, unreasoning creatures: so I held s distasteful toa placid s countenance when my heart was bitter within s, as I sat with an assu to the accounts of those s and intervieith Mr Weston, which they see things asserted of hierations and perversions of the truth, if not entirely false--things derogatory to hi to them--especially to Miss Murray--which I burned to contradict, or, at least, to shows I heard, which I felt or feared were indeed too true: but I nation against theain, ed to hear more of, but could not venture to inquire So passed the weary ti, 'She will soon be married; and then there may be hope'