one's genteel connexions.

Julia was an active, healthy girl, as good an appetite as other ladies; but ting demon could not, some way or ot perform in peace even these vulgar f humanity. There were certain things at table very good and pleasing to the ta it was ungenteel to eat, and not polite but what I was going to notice is, that h being elderly and of country habits, lik at two o'clock. Julia's appetite had no to this whatever, for it was used to no The first few days I was with them, I think why the fidgets seized upon her time the cloth was laid till it was rem she bolted her food like a cat that fears a -why she sat edgeways on her chai the window-and why she recovered b soon as dinner was over, like one esc

I to be two churches in the town in many towns. Both had been e bishop, both had the service -priety, and both were filled by and character. But for some stood only to Julia and her evil s might by possibility guess at it, lly genteel. Julia's parents at's, because they there heard the est truth. Julia, from education , preferred it too. The rector e more learned and more eloquent St. Peter's was the more fashionumbrella and clogs as she hastened ed the carriages going to the other, head for shame. As she passed of poor that lined the aisles, tary sense of degradation. She her principles, or of the doctrine but she was ashamed of the

before her on the table. "I cannot t do," she said to me. "Dame Wenham she has nothing to eat, and they wan wrap her in. I have things here rea but John is gone to market, and Sarah and I have nobody to take them." yourself," I replied: "it is no farther usual walk, and this parcal is of no gr "This is what I was thinking of," tak bundle," the woman is suffering-perha I would not mind carrying it three times laying it down again, "it is so ungent parcels-I cannot be sure of not meeting I offered to go with her, and bear the burden through the town, but was surp she still hesitated. "Well, Julia, w matter now? We are losing time, and woman is suffering." "I am thinking plied, I am glad to say, blushing for while "I am thinking if any body

that providence had assigned it hed and was silent. "My dear amine your heart, and see if it ebellion against Heaven for the u upon earth. And what a porave not a single want but those e not a single difficulty, a single have created for yourself. And ent allotment of which you dare you hesitate in an act of duty, 1 observe that you are-where 1."

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outward appearances of Julia's ew, doubtless, in comparison with n bosom. I appeal to any lady, with the demon of gentility eans, to say how many pleasant ers, how many duties it suspends, d and subterfuge it induces, and passion kindles in the heart: my space is running short.

while to describe it. I wish I could measure the moments in which Julia's gratified, against those in which it was the hours in which she enjoyed the go against those in which she endured it be so called the times of gratitude to the advantages afforded her, against th reproach for the sins she was betrayed consciousness of moving in society ab against the consciousness of being below she moved in-the pleasure of seeming body, against the fear of being disco nobody. I should be obliged to any tried it, to draw this picture for me, insert it in some future number. At pr more serious matter.

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The lamb with whose destiny I bega seemed for a little while to have the adva fellows in one season he grew to be a