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"I beg pardon, rizzled wool; "I heard singing, and little missy--"

Unfortunately Amoret here awoke, and with a shriek of horror cowered in her arms

"I as "She knows no better"

Ju after hi her days of solitude, being a fearless child, and not having been taught to bear of him "The soot won't come off," she said

Aurelia had not a moment to herself till Fay had said the Lord's prayer at her knee, and Amoret, with much persuasion, had been induced to lisp out-"Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed I sleep upon; Four corners to by bed, Four angles round uard ony for mammy ensued, nor could Aurelia leave the child till sleep had hushed the wailings Then only could she take her little writing-case to begin her letter to Betty It would be an expensive luxury to her fah she cried a good deal over her writing, she felt as if she ought to make the best of her position, for had not Betty said it was for her father's sake? No, her tearshearts Yet how the drops would coh the , ca her as before, but filling her with an inexpressible sense of peace and cal almost as one in a dream, with her pen suspended, and when the spell was broken by Molly's entrance with her supper, she went on in a un It was dull, and it was a pity that her grand wardrobe, to say nothing of Betty's good advice, should be wasted, but her sister would rejoice in her seclusion frorand, fashionable world, and her heart went out to the poor little neglected children, whose ht of them