calm acceptance of it as a thing she knew of; and to draw a painful balance between Mrs. Damerel's power to insist and command, and Rose's power of resistance; finally, he had the despairing consciousness that his leave was only for a fortnight, a period too short for anything to be decided on. No hurried settlement of the extraordinary imbroglio of affairs which he perceived dimlyno license, however special, would make it possible to secure Rose in a fortnight's fortnight's time; and he was bound to China for three years! This reflection, you may well suppose, gave the young man enough to think of, and made his first day at home anything but the ecstatic holiday which a first day at home ought to be.

As for Mrs. Damerel, when she went into her own house, after seeing this dangerous intruder to the door, the sense of relief which had been her only conscious feeling up to this moment gave place to the irritation and repressed wrath which, I think, was very natural. She said to herself, bitterly, that as the father had been so the daughter was. They consulted their own happiness, their own feelings, and left her to make everything straight behind them.

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did it matter what she felt? What was the good of her but to bear the burden of their self-indulgence?-to make up for the wrongs they did, and conceal the scandal? I am aware that in such a case, as in almost all others, the general sympathy goes with the young; but yet I think poor Mrs. Damerel had much justification for the bitterness in her heart. wept a few hot tears by herself which nobody even knew of or suspected, and then she returned to the children's lessons and her daily business. ber head swimming a little, and with a weakness born of past agitation, but subdued into a composure not feigned but real. For after all, everything can be remedied except exposure, she thought to herself; and going to Miss Margetts' showed at least a glimmering of common-sense on the part of the runaway, and saved all public discussion of the "difficulty" between Rose and her mother. Mrs. Damerel was a clergyman's wife - nay, one might say a clergy woman in her own person, accustomed to all the special decorums and exactitudes which those who take the duties of the caste to heart consider incumbent upon that section of humanity; but she set about inventing a series of fibs on the spot with an ease which I fear long practice and custom had given. How many fibs had she been compelled to tell on her husband's behalf? quisite little romances about his health and his close study, and the mental Occupations which kept him from little necessary duties although she knew perfectly well that his study was mere desultory reading, and his delicate health self-indulgence. She

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had shielded him so with that delicate network of falsehood that the rector had gone out of the world with the highest reputation. She had all her life been subject to remark as rather a commonplace wife for such a man, but no one had dreamt of criticising him. Now she had the same thing to begin over again; and she carried her system to such perfection that she began upon her own family, as indeed in her husband's case she had always done, imbuing the children with a belief in his abstruse studies and sensitive organization, as well as the outer world.

"Rose has gone to pay Miss Margetts a visit," she said, at the early dinner. "I think a little change will do her good. I shall run up to town in a few days and see after her things."

"Gone to Miss Margetts'! I wonder why no one ever said so," cried Agatha, who was always full of curiosity. What a funny thing, to go off on a visit without even saying a word!"

"It was settled quite suddenly," said the mother, with perfect composure. "I don't think she has been looking well for some days; and I always intended to go to town about her things."

"What a very funny thing," repeated Agatha, "to go off at five o'clock; never to say a word to any one not even to take a box with her clothes, only that little black bag. I never heard of anything so funny; and to be so excited about it that she never went to bed."

"Do not talk nonsense," said Mrs. Damerel, sharply; "it was not decided till the evening before, after you were all asleep."

"I think you might take some of this pudding down to poor Mary Simpson," said Mrs. Damerel, calmly; "she has no appetite, poor girl; and, Agatha, you can call at the postoffice, and ask Mrs. Brown if her niece has got a place yet. I think she might suit me as housemaid, if she has not got a place."

"Then, thank Heaven," said Agatha, diverted entirely into a new channel, "we shall get rid of Mary Jane!"

Having thus, as it were, made her experiment upon the subject nearest her heart, Mrs. Damerel had her little romance perfectly ready for Mr. Incledon when he came. "You must not blame me for a little disappointment to-day," she said, "though indeed I ought to have sent you word had I not been so busy. You must have seen that Rose was not herself yesterday. She has her father's fine organization, poor child, and all our troubles have told upon her. I have sent her to her old school, to Miss Margetts, whose care I can rely upon, for a little change. It will be handy in many ways, for I must go to town

"Could you not see that?" said the mother, smiling with gentle reproof. "When did Rose show temper before? She has her faults, but that is not one of them; but she has her father's fine organization. I don't hesitate to say now, when it is all over, that poverty brought us many annoyances and some privations, as it does to everybody, I suppose. Rose has borne up bravely, but of course she felt them; and it is a specialty with such highly-strung natures," said this elaborate deceiver, "that they never break down till the pressure is removed."

"Ah! I ought to have known it," said Mr. Incledon; and, indeed," he added, after a pause, what you

say

is a great relief, for I had begun to fear that so young a creature might have found out that she had been too hasty that she did not know her own mind."

"It is not her mind, but her nerves and temperament," said the mother. "I shall leave her quite quiet for a few days."

"And must I leave her quiet too?" "I think so, if you don't mind. I could not tell you at the time," said Mrs. Damerel, with absolute truth and candor such as gave the best possible effect when used as accompaniments to the pious fib, "for I knew you would have wished to help us, and I could not have allowed it; but there have been a great many things to put up with. You don't know what it is to be left to the tender mercies of a maid-of-all-work, and Rose has had to soil her poor little fingers, as I never thought to see a child of mine do; it is no disgrace, especially when it is all over," she added, with a little laugh.

"Disgrace! it is nothing but honor," said the lover, with some moisture starting into his eyes. He would have liked to kiss the poor little fingers of which her mother spoke with playful tenderness, and went away comparatively happy, wondering whether there was not something more to do than he had originally thought of by which he could show his pride and delight and loving homage to his Rose.

Poor Mrs. Damerel! I am afraid it was very wicked of her, as a clergywoman who ought to show a good example to the world in general; and she could have whipped Rose all the same for thus leaving her in the lurch; but still it was clever, and a gift which most women have to exercise, more or less.

But oh the terrors which over whelmed her soul when, after having dismissed Mr. Incledon, thus wrapped

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Cyril is right; my place is not to shine in society. Why did I deliberately take myself to a spot where I knew in advance that I must suffer, where it would be impossible to evade or to escape my suffering? Why? Ah! it was because I hoped- believed, almost — that if we were there together, he would not, he could not neglect me, his wife, for her! He could. He did. Before my open eyes he neglected me for her. Consciously, coolly, he left me for her. That fact can never be annulled. Can I ever forget last night? Never. I can never hear music again that will not bring it back. I can never see a geranium blossom that will not recall it. I believe I could never look upon dancing again it would be more than I could bear.

"Oh, my heart! How it ached! I said more truly than I knew, that it would be an unequal match. Our weapons are as unequal as they are unlike. What was my devoted love of years before one glance of her eyes! Yet it is not love that she inspires. No, it is infatuation. He is infatuated. Can he help it? I know not. I only know that I could help it. The man does not live, and never will, who could lure me from him even by a thought. But there is a difference. He has everything to hold me that I have not to hold him: beauty, genius, power. I wondered at the first that he could love me. Can I be astonished, now, that he leaves me in act and spirit? I have nothing, nothing but my love, to give him. What is that to him in the presence of such a face? Little. How little, I learned last night. Must I, can I learn to live alone, widowed in heart if not in life, and yet live to any purpose, for my children, for anybody? My God! if it be thy will that I miss the highest joy, let me not miss also the deepest good! Do not suffer me to be all a failure! Alas, that I should feel that in losing love, I lose everything!"

"Here is a card for you," said Linda, entering the room. "I encountered the lady in the lower hall; heard her inquiring for you; told her I'd give you her card, that you were in, disengaged, and I thought

would see her."

"Yes, Linda, I know how beautiful she is. It is a fatal beauty to me -I feel it-I know it. It seems as if my heart would stop beating when I look at her. What does she want of me? Does she come to insult me? All, all I ask of her is to let me and mine alone. I want nothing of hers. Not even her beauty. She only uses it to lead men astray. I'd rather be sinned against than to sin."

"You'll change your mind, or have a tough time of it," said Linda coolly. "What have you against Mrs. Sutherland? Why shouldn't she call on you? You are the Honorable Mrs. King, and worth cultivating. Now, I would like to go down just to take another look at her myself, but my opinion is, that you had better go yourself."

"I will go," said Agnes, as if moved by a new im. pulse. "You shall go with me, babies, both of you;" and she took her little son and daughter by the hands and led them out with her. With one on either side she entered the shabby parlor below.

Circe Sutherland was just thinking how very shabby it was, with its once fine but now faded furniture. ""Tis a pity," she sighed, "that he should have no place more in keeping with himself than this, in which to entertain his friends. Some day, perhaps "

The door opens and Agnes with her children enters. She wears a black alpaca dress with narrow linen collar and cuffs, and a throat-tie of rose-colored silk-her simple breakfast and street attire, which can do nothing to soften the lines of pain which the pitiless morning reveals so distinctly on her features. Not so does it show the lady who rises to meet her. The all-night dance has left no trace of weariness on the fair, unworn face, framed in its carriage bonnet of white lace lined with azure satin. Her close-fitting pelisse of black velvet is edged with ermine; somehow in her attire Circe Sutherland always suggests the empress. She holds in her hand a bouquet of tea-rose buds, lily of the valley and violets, which with an indescribably deprecating grace she proffers to Agnes at once.

"Will you accept these flowers, Mrs. King, please? I selected them especially for you; they are like you, with a winning glance. "Pardon my early call, but I have tried so many days to come past two o'clock, only to get tangled in a list of receptions, and so fail to make it out. But I do owe you an apology. I have known Mr. King so long and so pleasantly, it has seemed quite like a fatality that we have not met sooner. I have promised myself so often the pleasure of making your acquaintance. Last night I thought I surely should, but whenever I glanced at you, you seemed to be the centre of such an admiring circle, such a belle de conversazione, I would not venture. Then I did get absorbed in dancing. I may as well confess; you could not help seeing it. I've a passion for dancing. I was born to it, I believe. And I'd apologize for persuading your husband into the folly so often, only I perceived all the ladies about you were equally amiable with theirs; and yours is such a perfect dancer! It's such a comfort to dance with a gentleman who dances well, they are so very rare in this country."

"Are they?" said Agnes calmly. "I cannot tell, as I was never taught to dance, nor allowed to attend dancing-parties but very rarely, before my marriage." "Dear me, how dreary! You will never know how much pleasure you have missed."

"Probably not. Though last night I thought I had some comprehension of it."

"Did you?" with a quick inquiring glance. "I danced before I could walk, I believe; I was born to it. And these are your children? How good of you to bring them down for me to see. Mr. King speaks of them so often, and of your beautiful devotion to them. He says that you perfectly live in them." "Does he? Mrs. Sutherland, do you not think it fortunate for me that I can live in my children?" "Most surely I do. All mothers do. They prefer to live in their children, do they not?" with a faint ripple of perturbation in the smooth voice.

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"Yes. Any true mother chooses to live in her children, with her husband, — with their father, - but not to live in them alone, while he lives a life apart." "Surely," says Circe Sutherland, her soft society voice coming nearer proving traitor to its habitual calm, by betraying unintentional emotion, than it had ever done before in her life. Never before has she been taken so utterly by surprise. It is she who is usually mistress of the conversation and the converser. Evidently here is one not easily managed intellectually, notwithstanding the impression she gives of physical weakness, and personal passivity. Is it possible that Cyril King's wife is in no way the weak creature that she has deemed her? She came here to pat her (mentally) on the back; to patronize her; to ask her to go out for a drive, partly for kindness, more for "appear ances." Why can she do neither? Why does she feel spiritually abashed in the presence of this perfectly unpretending, untravelled little woman in black alpaca?

"Mrs. Sutherland," said Agnes slowly, that she might hold in calmness the insurgent emotional vibrations of her voice; "Mrs. Sutherland, I heard all that you said about me to your friend in the alcove of the Congressional Library."

"You did!"

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the father of my children. If I cannot know him to be mine in fidelity, in singleness of affection, what have I, as wife and mother, in this world? Nothing, nothing!" Have you no confidence in him?" says Circe, drifting helplessly to the first question she can ask. "What would his love be worth if it could not be proof against any test? Beside, nobody on earth can take from you what is yours, and you could have no more love from him than your nature called out, if you were the only woman in the world. You speak as if your husband were at my mercy, as if I had nothing to do but to take him from you if I wished. If he is worthy to be all in all to you, how can you have so little faith in him?"

"I think that you know," answers Agnes, to whom the vocabulary of the Affinity Club is an unknown alphabet, but whose clear eyes look into the depths of Circe Sutherland's with a divining light. "I think that you know. You ask me if I have no faith in my husband. I have had all faith in him. I have loved him from a little child. I never loved another man. I know nothing of men save as I know them by him. Yet I know this, for the knowledge has been forced upon me, and you know it, that there are few men, very few, who could be utter proof against such beauty as yours, against such a woman as you are, if you willed that they should care for you, and threw alluring influence over them. I don't believe that all would be equally weak, or equally tempted, but there would not be one who would not feel your spell.”

your

"You flatter me, and you are the sincerest woman I ever saw in my life.”

Agnes scarcely seems to hear this reply, as she goes on : "I did not know it once, but I know now that my husband has special temptations which a man less popular in society can never know. He shines in crowds, and is everywhere sought after. When I did not know this I fear I was too exacting. I supposed I could fill his need of companionship as he filled mine. I know better now.. I do not wish to chain him to iny side; I want to go into society with him and share in whatever gives him pleasure." She thinks of the miserable failure of the night before, and is silent, while Circe Sutherland measures her from head to foot but makes

no answer.

you

"I think now it can never be," she says at last. "I fear I was never made for what is called society. It is not easy to go against nature and the training of a life. I cannot assimilate to crowds. I live in a few; supremely, I can live but in one. Will not this make kinder to me? Leave me him. You know what I mean. I would not rob society of his presence if I could. All I ask unbroken is his allegiance to me as my husband. You know it is this that you have assailed," and the divining light grows clearer in the clear eyes. "You assailed it from the beginning. You intoxicated him with flattery subtle as incense. You made him feel that he was dear to you. Was it in man to be indifferent to such beauty, combined with such homage? When I was sick, shut in a darkened room, suffering for him and for this child, when I did not know that you lived, you did live to make yourself fair in the eyes of my husband. Did he not see you every day? Did you not sing for him? play for him? make yourself beautiful for him? Why did you do it?"

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"Cared for him! What right had you to care for

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him to such a degree? Had you been in my place, would you have been willing that I should have so robbed you of your husband's care and companionship "I dare say not. But don't be unjust to me, Mrs. King. At first I did not know anything about you. I did not know that Cyril King had a sick wife. I did not know that he had any wife at all. He did not look married. He did not act married. And when I was told about his wife, I assure you, you were represented to me the opposite of what you are. Weak'! I never 'Weak'! I never saw any one with such strength for truth-telling. Dear me, how you have lectured me! If you bring such a battery to bear upon him, no wonder he runs away from you."

"No, 'tis no wonder," says Agnes sadly, measuring once more with unclouded eyes the exquisite face and form before her.

truth, Mrs. King. 'Tis unjust. If I If I as you could never Cyril King. You

"Now let me tell you a little Don't make me wholly responsible. had never been born, such a woman hold in absolute loyalty a man like are too truth-telling. If you want to keep a man's love, never tell him the truth. He will not bear it. No man will bear it, not if it is disagreeable; and the naked truth, as people call it, almost always is hideous. A man will bear the truth from a man, never from a woman; not if he loves her, or wishes to stand well in her opinion. The moment that she dares to become his judge, his critic, she creates in him coldness, if not indifference, toward herself. The key to the entire arch of a man's love is flattery. Soothe his self-love, and you will be ever agreeable to him. Hint that he has a fault, and he will run away from you, if it is only to his cigar. Now I am absolutely certain, Mrs. King, that you were never displeased with your husband that you did not show it in some way, though you spoke not

a word."

"I fear you are right," says Agnes meekly.

"It would not have gone so hard with you," says Circe kindly, "if you had known how to manage him. You have no finesse. You are too devoted for such a man. You give him no stimulus, not the slightest, in loving you. You made him sure in the beginuing that your devotion was absolute, as endless as it is narrow; that no matter what he does or does not, no iota can be added or taken from it; that to you he is the only man in existence to dote on, to live in, to pronounce upon, and to bore and you attempt to measure his devotion to you by the same irrevocable gauge. Now such a man sometime is sure to feel nagged by such a devotion. It wearies him, it worries him; and he will run away from it, somewhere, to something, if only to assert his own manhood. But if you could only give your husband a little home excitement by admiring some one else, mind, I don't say falling in love with some one else, you would give him a new stimulus to stand first in your opinion again. But if you insist on such absolute and exacting bondage, what other word is there for it? why, he will break away, though ever so little, into by-paths, to taste the stolen sweetness of forbidden fruits; there is no other help for it."

Agnes is silent before the to her new philosophy of this fair daughter of the world.

At last she says, "It is easy for you to say all this, you who have so much. I have but him. I want but him. Do not steal him away from me with your beautiful face and your alluring voice. Think of it! The

Under any con

He is my all.

world of men may be your kingdom. ditions I could have but my husband. In your heart you must know what it would be to have all taken from you. Say, I beseech you to say, that you will not rob me of my husband!"

"Your husband I do not want," says Circe Suther land coolly, but kindly still; "I cannot say that I have not wanted an admirer, a lover, even, though in no positively committed sense. But it was with no wish to rob you. I'm of the opinion still that no one of us can long hold anything which does not intrinsically belong to us. I've given you the best of advice how to bind your husband to you in devotion. If you fail to do it, it will be because it is not in you to be able to do it, — or in him to be bound. It will not be my fault. I am speaking the truth to you, Mrs. King, and nothing but the truth something I can't always afford to do. Now I will be as honest with you as you have been with me. I care for your husband. All in all I think I care more for him than for any other man that I ever met. But if he were free, I can't say that I would marry him, for I don't want to marry anybody. I prefer my freedom, my kingdom, if you will. I never had any purpose to harm you, I scarcely thought of you save as a nobody · as you know by the words you overheard, or I would not mention it. I thought of you only to pity him, that he should carry you as a weight. I pity him still, but I pity you more. You suffer and make others suffer from an excess of over-exacting virtues, more intolerable in one we live with, than sinswhich, to tell the truth, are usually agreeable. But to prove to you that I wish you no ill, I will make a greater sacrifice for you than I ever made for any one in my life. I will go away from here—not to-day or to-morrow, but soon. I will go soon. And I am sure you can never know what a sacrifice I make for you, for just now it is the pleasure of my life to stay."

"And you will never know with what gratitude I thank you. Look at these children! Could any passing pleasure ever compensate you for the knowledge that you had taken a father from his children? a husband from his wife? that you had broken up a home? What could he give you to atone for such knowledge?"

"The love of his eyes, the worship of his life,', thought Circe Sutherland; but she said: "You are the most dreadfully in earnest of any woman I ever saw. It would tire me to death, — and you must pardon me when I say that I should think it would tire husband to death, this eternal thrusting at him your of the right and wrong of everything. Do you take nothing for granted? Do you accept nothing because it is, and is therefore to be enjoyed and rejoiced in, without question?"

"Yes, that which I have a right to, surely, but never that which infringes upon the peace of another." "Well, we could come no nearer together were we to talk on forever," says Circe, rising. "We do not stand on the same plane, we see nothing from the same angle of vision. What is symmetrical to one is distorted to the other, and could never be otherwise. Of one thing be sure, whatever may happen in the future I shall never speak to your disparagement again. I could never love you, for you disturb my good opinion of myself-which is not pleasant. But I respect you. I came here to give you these flowers, to ask you to drive with me, to say nothing that I deeply meant; whereas, I never spoke so unreservedly to any one in my life. You know me perfectly, therefore I have made

no attempt to evade or to veil. You have spiritual insight and force beyond what I have ever found in one woman. By sheer moral power you have compelled me to be as sincere as yourself. I can bear it for once. But it would make me very uncomfortable to have you drop your divining rod into me very often. I prefer to hold it in my own hands and to sound the depths of other people. Your very presence would set me to questioning my own motives, and tend to make me dissatisfied with myself. I could never bear that, never, — and, as your friend, let me say your husband never "How odd!" Circe goes on, as she stoops and kisses each child. “Your little boy is yourself over again, and this little girl is the image of her papa. How I wish you would let me take them to drive. You wouldn't drive with a sinner like me?" says the sweet alluring voice, while the small mouth droops and quivers like that of an injured child. "Ask mamma to let you go, little ones. Tell her I'll bring you back safe." "Do, mamma! Let us doe," says Vida. “Why, Vida?”

will.

"Twill jew me dood to doe."

"Yes, mamma!" pleads the boy.

"But you said you had a lesson ready to recite." "What's a lesson, mamma, compared with my health and Vida's?" asks seven-year-old Cyril.

She is fairly beleaguered. She has never yet let her children drive out without her. This lady is probably right she is over severe and puritanical. Even her she must have judged too hardly. Look at that lovely, pleading mouth, quivering like a child's.

"I will go," she says suddenly. "And you too may go, babies. I will not keep you waiting long," - to the smiling Circe, as she leads the children out of the parlor for their wrappings.

"So far so good," says the musing Circe, now left alone. "It is more than I expected, far more, when I felt how surely she struck the nail on the head. I wish I was well out of it all. I wish I had never seen him. I wish she were the idiot I thought her. I wish he had just as little at home as I supposed. Then I could feel justified; now, unless I get far enough away from that face and voice, I never can. Mercy! to come to such a lecture! But I gave it back, and more, before she got through; that is some comfort."

Linda, up-stairs, thinks the world must be turned upside down, or the pillars of the universe shaken in some way, to have brought these two together.

"You couldn't see her, couldn't speak to her and in an hour's time you are going out to drive with her! She must be a witch!"

She is charming, Linda," is Agnes' only reply. "Now tell me just where you would like to go, and there we will drive," said Circe, as Agnes and her children took their seats in her open landau.

"I would like to go to Van Ness Place; I intended that to be my next drive with the children." "Van Ness Place: Where is it?" "At the foot of Seventeenth Street. Have been there?"

you never

"No. Nor ever heard of it. Tell me about it, please. I am a stranger in Washington, you know. To Van Ness Place, Pierre, foot of Seventeenth Street ;" and the carriage turned toward the West End.

"It's the Burns cottage that I care most to see," said Agnes," and that because it is so associated with Marcia Burns, who became Mrs. Van Ness."

"And who was Mrs. Van Ness?" "The heiress of Washington! Her father owned all the land from Georgetown to where the Patent Office now stands. It was of this obstinate Mr. Burns, as President Washington called him, that he bought with much difficulty the site of the future city. Marcia Burns was then the only child of this old man. She was sent to Baltimore to be educated, and came back to be the belle of the first Congress assembled at the Capitol. I've just been reading that in the little loghouse we are going to see, all the great people of that time visited, Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Burr, the Calverts, the Carrolls, and that Thomas Moore slept in the little room off the kitchen on the ground floor."

"Dear me! It will be like visiting Shakespeare's house at Stratford-on-Avon," said Circe, who was too polite to add that few things bored her more than old shrines and relics. "And this famous belle became Mrs. Van Ness?" she asked.

"Yes, she married the handsomest man in Congress. The record says he was well fed, well bred, well read.' After a while he built a mansion house a few rods away from the log cottage. It was designed by Latrobe. I want to see the mantel-pieces; they were wrought in Italy, and it is said are covered with sculptured Loves and Vestas, models of exquisite art. But Mrs. Van Ness always loved the log cottage better than the mansion house."

"Oh, dear! what a wooden creature she must have been then!"

"Oh, no! You will not say so if you go and look at her portrait in the Orphan Asylum. It is as lovely as a Madonna. She founded and endowed the Washington Orphan Asylum after the death of her only child, Mrs. Middleton, who was buried with her baby in her arms at the

age of twenty-two. After that Mrs. Van Ness used to go into the little log-house every day alone to meditate and pray. My nurse Chloe tells of General Van Ness' splendid equipage, with its six horses and liveried outriders, how everybody on the street used to turn and gaze after it; and the entertainments at the mansion house were the most splendid given in their day. Mrs. Van Ness was beautiful and elegant, but her heart was in none of these things. She knew about public affairs; she wrote poetry; her associations were all with the great of this world; yet her heart seemed to be with the poor and the suffering. She was the only American woman citizen whose body lay in state and was buried with public honors; yet the mourners who followed her coffin were the orphans whom she had cherished.

"It seems to me the most consecrated and holy life in the world, that I have ever heard about. I have thought so much of the heiress of Washington,' as she is called. That is why I want to see the little loghouse in which she was born, and always prayed; and the mansion house in which she lived and died."

"A beautiful life, no doubt, for any one who fancies it," said Circe, "but it seems to me a dreadfully dreary What was the use of praying when her daughter was dead? It would not bring her back."

one.