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'It seems unnatural: but soood; and, if they can secure that for their children, they think they have done their duty'

'True: but is it not strange that persons of experience, who have been e so falsely?' Matilda now ca hare in her hand

'Was it your intention to kill that hare, or to save it, Miss Murray?' asked Mr Weston, apparently puzzled at her gleeful countenance

'I pretended to want to save it,' she answered, honestly enough, 'as it was so glaringly out of season; but I was better pleased to see it lolled However, you can both witness that I couldn't help it: Prince was determined to have her; and he clutched her by the back, and killed her in alady after a leveret'

There was a quiet sarcasm in the tone of his reply which was not lost upon her; she shrugged her shoulders, and, turning aith a significant 'Humph!' asked me how I had enjoyed the fun I replied that I saw no fun in the matter; but admitted that I had not observed the transaction very narrowly

'Didn't you see how it doubled--just like an old hare? and didn't you hear it scream?'

'I'm happy to say I did not'

'It cried out just like a child'

'Poor little thing! What will you do with it?'

'Co--I shall leave it in the first house we come to I don't want to take it ho kill it'

Mr Weston was now gone, and we too went on our way; but as we returned, after having deposited the hare in a farm-house, and dee, wealso froht be He carried in his hand a cluster of beautiful bluebells, which he offered to h he had seen so little of otten that bluebells were nu oodwill, without compliment or remarkable courtesy, or any look that could be construed into 'reverential, tender adoration' (vide Rosalie Murray); but still, it was so so well re that he had noticed so accurately the time I had ceased to be visible