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both silly and susceptible"

"Rosa Tazewell may have been shallow of heart, but she was not of

pate," answered Mr Aylett, with a cold sneer "She was a fair

plotter, and not fickle of purpose when she had her desires upon a

e proved that She meant to

captivate Chilton before she had known him a month--yes, and to

marry him, as she finally did Her intermediate conquests were but

the practice that was to perfect her in her profession Does anybody

know, by the way, if he has ever taken a second wife to his bereaved

bosoently, "I think not

Mrs Trent, Rosa's sister, was expatiating to me a hter, and she said nothing

of a step-mother Father and child live with a married sister of

Mrs Chilton, I believe"

"I had not heard that Rosa left a child," remarked Mabel,

interested "I understood that two died before the er Miss Florence is noelve years

old, Mrs Trent says I saw her at church once, when she was

visiting her grandmother and aunts She is really passable--but very

unlike her mother"