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"Not so, Florry Your future life will be an active one Are we not dependent on our exertions for subsistence? and does not our little school open to-ht Bury the painful remembrances of the past; believe e of your duties"

"I cannot forget the past Had he sought my love, I could scorn him for his baseness; but it is not so, I almost wish it were Yet I know and feel that he loves me; and oblivion of the past is as ie impulse has inducedfor relief by revealing that which has pressed so heavily on ain; and, above all, do not mention his name It has passed ain within my own heart We will open the school to-morrow; and may God help me, Mary, pray, oh, pray for er to my lips"

She walked hurriedly to the house, and shut herself within her own apartment