papist; and she took hold of my new poplin dress last Sunday, and asked if it was my old green silk dyed-and she did so just as the Bernards were going by."

Mr. R.-" She has a long tongue, certainly, I wonder it has got her into no mischief. I saw Mr. Leslie was rather more surprised than pleased at her when I introduced him."

Mrs. R.-"That shows he is a man of sense, and at all events that his wife will not be like her. I shall not be able to see her until Sunday, as I hear Lady Bernard is not going to call at the parsonage until next week; so I shall do the same. I shall know in a minute if she will suit me, by the style of her dress."

Mr. R.-" Then women are sharper than men. I never noticed how Mr. Leslie was dressed I only looked at his nice

honest countenance.

So I shall say good

night. I presume you will be in bed before the morning, if you would not rather sit up all night than let your daughters go simply dressed to church."

Mrs. Robarts was irritated at this last remark, and his shutting the door with a bang that shook her weak nerves. So she determined to finish trimming the hats, tired as she was. Therefore the flies on the wall left her, before they had time to discover if all this sitting up, fatigue, and trimming answered her expectations; and went to pay two, luckily but short, visits, as follows:

"Dolly," said Dr. Dawson, as he was putting on his night-cap, "would it not be kind of you to go to-morrow and see if you can help Mrs. Leslie. That nicespoken, worthy young man, her husband, as good as told me she was only nineteen."

"I wrote to her to-day, doctor, to offer my services; and I am to go to her tomorrow to assist. She wrote me such a pretty answer and here it is."

"A very pretty letter, indeed," answered the doctor, after perusing it; "and no nonsense in it. But she must be a sensible young woman, to have discerned that my Dolly was a treasure, without having seen her."

"Have done with your nonsense, doctor. You see she puts the pleasure of seeing me more to the fact that she would like to be at home among us all as soon as possible."

"Very right; besides she can be no fool for all she is so young-for that nice young man, who has quite taken my heart with his free, kind manner, is far too knowing to have married such, Dolly."

"They are much too young, too young, to my thinking, for this place, doctor, so we must

his little windows to show Walter, who was astonished at them. And nurse likes him too: she said she was sure he was a good man."

"There, Kate-I hope you hear this with satisfaction. Mr. Leslie has already, in his quiet way, won three hearts."

"May he be as successful in all others; but it proves, Henry, that his disposition is what I hoped. Merry with the boys, so nice and condescending to nurse, my text will be verified' He will become all things to all men, so that, by any means, he may win

"Take it then, Kate, for your watch-word: on Sunday, when I have seen Mrs. Leslie, I will tell you mine. So now, little boys, teach papa how to make a tossity-tassity." "Papa! a tissity-tossity, if you please."

CHAPTER V.

"I see a beauteous vale

Embosomed in the mountains, whose proud height
Seems like a pinnacle for Time to sit
And watch his generations. In that vale,

Seeming the very resting-place of grace,

The homes of men are scattered."

CONSTANTIA LOUISA RIDDELL.

But

Now we must take our station on the wall of the domestic parlour of the Robarts's. they had other rooms. Oh, of course! Who could imagine that Mrs. Robarts had not a very fine drawing-room, and excellent diningroom, both twenty-eight feet long, by twenty wide? Only this parlour was the domestic one in the day time, sacred to the many

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