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"So my sister told me," said Aurelia

"That letter, which Dr Godfrey read toit It is well if thus tardily she refund it, though not as your price, my poor child It should have been aswish So this is the alternative set before you! Has it been set before your father likewise?"

"Almost certainly she will have threatened to dismiss him if he do not consent It was that whichene? But I should think my Lady knew my father better than to seem to offer any kind of price, as you call it, for me"

"Precisely You have heard froive his consent?"

"They say they will not have o anything than that I should be driven to--to--"

"To be as enia," he concluded the sentence

"Indeed, sir," said Aurelia, quite restored, "I cannot see why they should iine me to have such objections, or want me to be so cautious and considerate I shall write to nant to ood to me; and if I can make your tiht to me I am sure I shall like you better than if---"

"Stay, stay, child," he said, half laughing; "remember, it is as a father that I ask you to love and trust the old recluse"

She thought she had been forward, crimsoned in the dark, and retired into her shell for the rest of the evening She was glad ith his usual tact, Mr Belaed for the recitation he knew she could make with the least effort of memory

At the end, however, she ventured to ask--"Sir, shall I be permitted ever to see my father and sister?"

"Certainly, my child In due tih you may have to wait for it"

Aurelia durst not ask as in her , but that one great hope began to outweigh all the strange future She began to say sonorant, and foolish for him, but this was kindly set aside, she hardly kne Mr Belaht send her consent to Lady Bela at the same time to retain the company of the little Misses Wayland To her father she wrote such a letter as nance to the h the Major had sacrificed all to love and honour hies de convenance were still so much the rule, and wives, bestowed in all passiveness with unawakened hearts, so often proved loving and happy matrons, that it would have been held unreasonable to demand more than absence of dislike on the part of the bride