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The 1st of June arrived at last: and Rosalie Murray was transmuted into Lady Ashby Most splendidly beautiful she looked in her bridal costume Upon her return fro into the schoolroo, half in mirth, and half in reckless desperation, as it seemed to me

'Now, Miss Grey, I'm Lady Ashby!' she exclai back now I'ood-by; and then I'm off for Paris, Rome, Naples, Switzerland, London--oh, dear! what a deal I shall see and hear before I coh I've been a naughty girl Coratulate you,' I replied, 'till I knohether this change is really for the better: but I sincerely hope it is; and I wish you true happiness and the best of blessings'

'Well, good-by, the carriage is waiting, and they're callingaway; but, suddenly returning, eht her capable of evincing, and departed with tears in her eyes Poor girl! I really loved her then; and forgave her from my heart all the injury she had done me--and others also: she had not half known it, I was sure; and I prayed God to pardon her too

During the remainder of that day of festal sadness, I was left to ed for any steady occupation, I wandered about with a book in , for I had , I o and seeabsence (whichher how busy I had been; and to talk, or read, or work for her, whichever ht be most acceptable, and also, of course, to tell her the news of this important day: and perhaps to obtain a little infor Mr Weston's expected departure But of this she see, and I hoped, as she did, that it was all a false report She was very glad to see me; but, happily, her eyes were now so nearly well that she was almost independent of ; but while I amused her with the details of the festive day, the splendours of the bridal party and of the bride herself, she often sighed and shook her head, and wished good ard it rather as a the to her about that and other things--but no one came