than the terms they had all been on together. Lady Vaux, when she had once become acquainted with Margaret, ceased to wonder that her son had selected her to be his wife from among the numerous young ladies he met; and the two Misses Vaux pronounced that she was "not at all beneath him, after all." Mr. Maxwell, it was now rumoured, had discovered that Lucy was the Miss Stourton he admired the most, and whether her father and mother would have her with them again for more than a short time after the expiration of the visit she was paying her brother William, seemed extremely doubtful. Miss Edge had quite recovered her health, and was very happy with the Shirleys. She was glad indeed to have been able to accept Mrs. Shirley's offer. She said she intended to begin governess life on a new principle, and she certainly did look very unlike the Miss Edge Margaret first recollected, when, not long after her return from a six weeks' tour abroad, "Mrs. Stratton " called at the rectory and found her surrounded by a cheerful party of children hard at work at their lessons. Great indeed was her delight at again seeing Margaret, whose manner was just as kind, if not more so, as when she used to pay those welcome visits at Mrs. Archer's farm. Miss Edge told her she never meant to allow herself to relapse into her old ways again, if she could possibly help it, as she had so fully come to "But the conclusion she had been in the wrong. then," she added, "I cannot but feel that my temptation to do so is greatly lessened now; indeed it scarcely exists. Every thing is so different here. from what it used to be at Mrs. Baring's; nothing can well be more so, indeed; and greatest of all is the difference between Mrs. Baring and Mrs. Shirley!" "I am very glad you are so happy," said Margaret. "My own happiness is so great that I have nothing in the wide world to wish for, with the one exception of seeing the increased happiness and comfort of those I love." "Oh, Margaret! you do see it, for every one must be made happier who is loved by you; that alone must do it, if nothing else does." "Ah! you have one great fault left still," replied Margaret, with her sweet smile. dangerous friends." "Flatterers are THE END. GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS, ST. JOHN'S SQUARE, LONDON. BOOKS LATELY PUBLISHED. LIFE and WORK in NEWFOUNDLAND; Reminiscences of Thirteen Years spent there. By the Rev. JULIAN MORETON, Colonial Chaplain at Labuan; late Missionary at Greenspond, Newfoundland. Crown 8vo, with a Map and four Engravings. 5s. 6d. LAMPS of the CHURCH; or, Rays of Faith, Hope, and Charity, from the Lives and Deaths of some Eminent Christians of the Nineteenth Century. By the Rev. H. CLISSOLD, M.A. Crown 8vo, with five Portraits beautifully engraved on Steel. 9s. 6d. The OLD MAN'S RAMBLES. 18mo. 3s. 6d. Sixth Edition. PARISH MUSINGS; or, Devotional Poems. By JOHN S. B. MONSELL, LL.D., Vicar of Egham, Surrey, and Rural Dean. Sixth and greatly improved Edition. Small 8vo. 2s. 6d. Also a Cheap Edition, for Distribution. Is. sewed, or Is. 6d. in limp cloth. The OLD CHURCH CLOCK. By RICHARD 8vo. 4s. 6d. THOUGHTS on Principal of St. Bees PERSONAL RELIGION, being a Treatise on the Christian Life in its Two Chief Elements, Devotion and Practice. By EDWARD MEYRICK GOULBURN, D.D., Prebendary of St. Paul's, Chaplain to the Bishop of Oxford, and one of Her Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary. Fourth Edition. Small 8vo. 6s. 6d. RIVINGTONS, WATERLOO PLACE, LONDON. |