and Naples. My father desired to spend a large portion of time in Germany. So, escaping from the London fog, we went on our route to Fatherland.

In study, in travel, in observation and kindly offices, a year sped. It was now eighteen months since our arrival in Europe. In the early part of the January ensuing, I should join Leonora and Haidee at Rome. * * All intermediate and passing events drop into oblivion-my carriage stops at a grand entrance-with flying feet I mount the marble staircase-and was clasped in Haidee's encircling arms.

We scarcely spoke, and my cousin seated me on a divan opposite herself. It was more than two years since we had parted at Umberhurst; and, doubtless, each was conscious of a change in the other. Haidee no longer wore her hair in flowing ringlets, but bound in many glossy braids around her beautiful head. She was attired in a morning dress of white silk, with a broad facing of ermine down the front, a collar of the same, rolling back at the throat, displayed a gracefully turned neck, around which was clasped a set of red and white corals, whose warm tints seemed glowing within the rim of that costly fur. Her large, lustrous eyes now shone in all their wondrous beauty--her voice was melody.

Haidee was no longer a child. Her early grief had developed her soul, softened the bright radiance of her beauty and deepened her sympathies--she was lovelier now to look upon for that she had known sorrow.

Haidee was very lovely! Now as I gazed upon her maturing beauty, I thought one would have taken her for my senior. And Leonora had grown tall, very elegant, very queenly-looking. She had been well and thoroughly educated at home, she had improved by her advantages abroad. She had been an invaluable friend to Haidee, and though but eight years her senior, had exercised over her the guardian care of a mother.

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have made small progress without Leonora, for she had little applicative power, little taste for study. She would never have submitted to the drudging, the drilling and reviewing that is unavoidable, to attain an eminent proficiency. Those children of the tropics cannot dig and delve as we with our colder blood, and less impulsive nature and calculating perseverance. They are differently endowed, and their proficiency must be attained through a different channel. This, Leorona quickly saw, and presently studied out and matured a plan, and then acted upon it. While this was going forward, a new thought dawned upon Haidee. Thus it was

"Pray, allow me to interrupt a pleasant train of ideas, my cousin Minnie, to say, I have a pleasant surprise for you."

"Indeed! Then the golden cup already at my lips, must overflow."

"Ah! When I left Umberhurst, I took the kind-hearted Phillis as a sort of pillow for my aching head, for her moth erly arms to sustain me when sinking. After a time, I began to make greater demands upon her. I needed a companion, to toil with me up the difficult steeps of learning. The estimable lady, Leonora, was too far in advance, she stood upon the heights, and with her fair hand, small in the dis tance, indicated the way. Clearly and plainly, it is true, I could not mistake it, but, oh, it was such a weariness to look from the meadows where I stood, up, far up to the dizzy heights my Leonora had reached! I needed some one with me, who loved me, whom I loved, to whom every advancing step would be as new as it was to me. Then it came to me that Phillis had the same thoughts. Then I must go and bring my companion in study up to my point of progress. This oocupation, joined to my pupil's eagerness to learn, the, novelty of teaching, or perhaps some better feeling, was the first respiration of the new life, ah, after that night of sor row. * * *

Next to this, now listen, dearest Minnie, during our sojourn

on those islands of the sea, my then pupil, became an object of great interest to-but this by and by. In intelligence, spirit, and therefore beauty, she was greatly superior to the native ladies, and a certain planter took her for Madam Hastings. No! Ah, then, she was my half-sister? No. Not a relation, but a companion and friend. Then this planter took occasion to visit us frequently, and became greatly enamored of my good Phillis, came to papa, and asked her in marriage! He was a widower for the second or third time, very wealthy, very wicked, and waxing old. Papa promptly refused to listen to his suit.

"You refuse me because the lady has greater expectations," said Mons. Dwanee, "but I am very rich, I can settle-"

"Not at all. She has no expectations whatever. She is the illegitimate daughter of one Major Williams, deceased, of the United States, and my daughter's humble companion." "You make this the cause of your refusal ?"

"No!"

"Ha, ha--I see. But I have heard that in the United States, the ladies there sometimes decide this question for themselves. Allow me, sir, to bring my suit before Madamoiselle Williams in person."

Papa paused, not quite knowing what to say; but at last. consented, as in fact he could not avoid doing, but stipulated that the visit should be made on the following morning. So papa was for a time relieved from a troublesome annoyance. But in the interim several exquisite boxes of the veriest gems of art and most costly bijouterie were sent in, directed to "Madamoiselle Williams"-and to "Le Phillise," and "La Philegra," that she was compelled to accept, for that it was impossible to return them.

The morning came, and with it in equal splendor, Mons. Dwance. His jewels, he doubtless thought, outshone the sun. "La Philegra" was looking very sweetly, though her blushes deepened manifestly. I really did not know what

the event would be, and was in a state of some considerable perturbation. Oh, for Miss Georgina Browne to have been there present-she, who still cherishes the idiotic idea, that a person must ever remain in the position wherein they were born-and to have seen this rich planter, laying his title, wealth, name, homage, and a wedding ring at the feet of the handsome housemaid of Umberhurst !

Very graciously my Phillis received Mons. Dwanee's marriage proposals, and very delicately but very firmly declined their acceptance. She could not for any cause leave her young friend and companion, the Princess de Hastings.

"Not now, indeed; well, would she not take time to consider two months, four, five, six, and then accept?"

She would consider-yes, but the time could not be less than one year. Yes, at the close of one year from the present date she would give her unprejudiced answer.

And then nothing could move her from her decision or her womanly grace. When Mons. Dwanee had made his elaborate adieu, I flew to my Phillis, threw my arms around her neck in the very excess of grateful joy, and quite smothered her with my caresses. Papa was very grateful to her, so was dearest Leonora, who has found an able coadjutor in the beautiful La Philegra.

I was greatly interested in this little incident, but most in that Haidee bad determined upon a thorough education of her dear friend; for from this great good must accrue. It was now two years since it was commenced upon, and lively as had been my expectations, my surprise, as Haidee had predicted, was very great when I met the quondam Phillis, of Umberhurst-now the elegant and very handsome Miss Williams. The good done was two-fold; for every advancing step made by Phillis, also advanced Haidee.

Leonora believed her cousin to be capable of high attainments, if she could only be won to feel an interest in each lesson, as separately given. She had most competent masters, and when their task for the hour was done, then would

Leonora divide the lesson up into poetic parcels, paint in glowing colors, or sing or explain it in most pleasing language, and so draw upon every point of interest until Haidee had mastered the whole.

This done, the little lady seemed lost in a storm of delight -springing upon Leonora's neck, covering her face with kisses, squeezing her round and dimpled arms, sometimes concluding her ecstacies by a gay frolic with Bettine, her maid.

Miss Georgina Browne would never have made of Haidee the progressive pupil, as did her fond and judicious cousin Leonora. Of this fact, our uncle Hastings was in time fully aware. It was not her English habit—not one of her highborn pupils ever had such vagaries-she could not depart from popular measures, that had hitherto been the rule of her life-no, no! Simply-Miss Browne had never struck the key note.

Captain Stanly Hastings had no definite plan for Haidee's future, was content that she should slowly progress in her studies and accomplishments, enjoy her daily life with its allotted measure of happiness, and be his constant companion and friend.

Early in the summer, my father and uncle removed with us to the city of Munich, leaving us there to extract and receive whatever good we might from its literary institutions, its paintings and sculpture, its palaces and churches, by sailing upon the Isar and the Danube, to live and enjoy all the good we could possibly receive into our souls, while they, papa and uncle, went away off to Norway and Sweden, to see the copper mines of Fahlun, and to catch a passing glimpse of those twilight countries, where there is a low civilization—few virtues and few vices. * * * It did not enter into my plan at the beginning, to write my Travels,"I have not done it. It only remains to be said, that they ended one year after our arrival at Munich, by our return to our own country, and our arrival at eventide at Glenelvan.