In some natures, the giving even of unrequited love is beautifying to the cha racter. But I think that in such cases the beauty is due to that pathetic com passion, which blends with all love of a high nature to a lower one. Do you think that all the Griseldas believe in their lords' wisdom and justice ? Do you fancy that the fathers of prodigal sons do not oftentimes perceive the young vaga bonds'\ gins arid shortcomings, with a terrible perspicuity that pierces the poor fond heart like sharp steel ? Do • you not know that Cordelia -saw more quickly and certainly than thje sneering, syco phaot courtiers, every weakness and vanity of the rash, choleric old king? Bat there are hearts in which such know ledge is transmuted not into bitter resent- VRtntf but into a yearning, angelic pity. Only, in order to feel this pity, we must rise to some point above the erring one. Now poor Castalia had been so repressed by "Jow ambition," and the petty influ ences of a poverty ever at odds with ap pearances, that the naturally weak wings o! her. spirit seemed to have lost all power of soaring-

The earliest days Mrs Algernon Erring ton spent in her new home were passed in making a series of disagreeable dis coveries. The first discovery was that a ■ix-roomed brick cottage is, practically, a far lew ooinroodiouß dwelling than any she had hitherto lived in. The. walls of Ivy Lodge (that was the name of the little house, which had not a twig of greenery to soften its bare red face) ap peared so slight that she fancied her con versation could be overheard by the passers-by in the road. The rooms were io nn&U that her dress seemed to fill them to overflowing, although those were aat the d*yi of crinplicM *n4 long ir»iai,

The kitchen was so close to the living- 1 rooms, that at dinner-time the whole house seemed to exhale a smell of roast j mutton. The stowing away of her ward robe taxed to the utmost the ingenuity of her maid. And the few articles of furniture which Lady Seely had raked out from disused sitting-rooms, appeared almost as Brobdignagian in Ivy Lodge, as real tables and chaiis would seem beside the furniture of a doll's house.
