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'No;--myher take herself off to some other house, as she offered to do when I h to ask her to live here still, and direct the affairs of the house for reater part of the year, in town, and in the second place, being so young and inexperienced, I was frightened at the idea of having a houseful of servants to e, and dinners to order, and parties to entertain, and all the rest of it, and I thought sheshe would prove a usurper, a tyrant, an incubus, a spy, and everything else that's detestable I wish she was dead!'

She then turned to give her orders to the footht within the door for the last half minute, and had heard the latter part of her animadversions; and, of course,the inflexible, wooden countenance he thought proper to preserve in the drawing- roo afterwards that he must have heard her, she replied--'Oh, no matter! I never care about the foot to them what their superiors say or do; they won't dare to repeat it; and as to what they think--if they presume to think at all--of course, nobody cares for that It would be a pretty thing indeed, it ere to be tongue-tied by our servants!'

So saying, she ran off to-room, where, in due ti on Lady Ashby's past and present condition; and on what little infor Mr Weston, and the s hout my quiet, drab-colour life: which, henceforth, seemed to offer no alternative between positive rainy days, and days of dull grey clouds without downfall At length, however, I began to weary of hts, and to wish I knehere to find the library my hostess had spoken of; and to wonder whether I was to re till bed-tih to possess a watch, I could not tell how ti shadows fro a corner of the park, a clump of trees whose topmost branches had been colonized by an innuh ith awith the stable-yard, as a broad carriage-road swept up to it from the park The shadow of this wall soon took posession of the whole of the ground as far as I could see, forcing the golden sunlight to retreat inch by inch, and at last take refuge in the very tops of the trees Ere long, even they were left in shadow--the shadow of the distant hills, or of the earth itself; and, in syretted to see their habitation, so lately bathed in glorious light, reduced to the sombre, work-a- day hue of the loorld, or of my oorld within For a ht still receive the lustre on their wings, which ie the hue and brilliance of deep red gold; at last, that too departed Twilight ca on; the rooks beca ho of ringing for a candle, and betaking ies for having neglectedall the blame upon that 'nasty old woman,' as she called her mother-in-law