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A little she began to lose her fear--MORRIS

Aurelia slept till she akened by a bounce at the door, and the rattling of the lock, but it was a little child's voice that was crying, "I will! I will! I will go in and seem by cousin!"

Then came Mrs Aylward's severe voice: "No, miss, you are not to waken your cousin Come away Where is that slut, Jenny?"

Then there was a scuffle and a howl, as if the child were being forcibly carried away Aurelia sprang out of bed, for sunshine was flooding the room, and she felt accountable for tardiness She had ain little hands were on the lock, little feet kicking the door, and little voices calling, "Let owns, all tumbled back one over the other

"My little cousins," she said, "come and kiss me"

One came forward and lifted up a sweet little pale face, but the other two stood, each with a finger in the hly inconvenient to Aurelia, as only in her stiff stays and di down below her waist She turned to them with arms out-stretched, but this put them instantly to the rout, and they ran off as fast as their bare pink feet could carry them, till one stu in the air Aurelia caught her up, but the capture produced a powerful yell, and out, all at once hurried into the corridor, Mrs Aylward, a tidy irl, scarcely out of bed, but awake enough to snatch the child out of the young lady's arorously all round, and Aurelia escaped into her rooarden below, laid out in the for in a fountain, the grass plats as sharply defined as possible, and stiff yews and cypresses dotted at regular intervals or fore and shy, but the sunshine, the cheerfulness, and the sight of the children, had reassured her, and when she had said her ht's sense of hopeless dreariness and unprotectedness When another knock came, she opened the door cheerfully, but there was a chill in rave, cold face, and stiff salutation "If you are ready, madam," she said, "I will show you to the south parlour, where the children will eat with you"