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I know thee well, thy songs and sighs,

A wicked god thou art;

And yet,to the heart

W MACKWORTH PRAED

The house was dull when Aurelia was gone Her father was ill at ease and therefore testy, Betty too sore at heart to endure as cheerfully as usual his unwonted ill-huene troublesoainst one another, since the one missed her companion, the other his playmate; and they were allan ele Sunday, Eugene hadin kicking up the dust, and Betty, who had gone on before with her father, was availing herself of the shelter of the great pew to brush with a sharp hand the dust fros, when, even in the depths of their seclusion, the whole party were conscious of a sort of breathless sound of surprise and admiration, a sweep of bows and curtsies, and thenearer--yes, to the very chancel Their very door was opened by the old clerk with the eous vision of scarlet and gold, bowing gracefully with a wave of a cocked and plu out of his corner--the seat of honour--but the stranger forbade this by another gesture, and took his place, after standing for a moment with his face hidden in his hat Then he took an anxious survey, not without an almost imperceptible elevation of eyebrow and shoulder, as if disappointed, and accepted the Prayer-book, which the Major offered hilued to her book, and when that was not in use, upon the ainst distraction, and every prayer turning into a petition for her sister's welfare; but Eugene gazed, open-eyed and open-h keeping her lids down, and her book open, contrived to make a full inspection of the splendid apparition

It was tall and slight, youthfully undeveloped, yet with the grace of personal syht without stiffness, with a command and dexterity ofthe annoyance to his pew-es The spurs were on cavalry boots, guarding the knee, and met by white buckskins, both so little dusty that there could have been no journey that old-laced scarlet coat of the Household troops entirely effaced the Major's old Austrian uniforolden broas brushed back, tied with black ribbon, and hung down far behind in a queue, only leaving little gold rings curling on the brow and temples The face was modelled like a cameo, faultless in the outlines, with a round peach-like fresh contour and blooh with a firth in the brow, that pro of the beauty of manhood and childhood about the youth; and his demeanour was perfectly decorous and reverent, no s officer and London beau Indeed Betty could allittering equip before her eyes, turn them where she would, and if Mr Arden's sermon had not been of Solomon's extent of natural philosophy, and so full of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin that she could not follow it at all