DUTY. THE lengthened evenings were welcomed by Mrs. Sinclair and Julia with revived amusements which summer had partly sus pended. Their library was furnished with many valuable authors, and from them their minds derived their most solid pleasures; but they were also supplied with whatever new productions appeared, that were worthy of notice; and with reading, music, work, and conversation, they found that time, even in the country, might pass swiftly and satisfactorily. Ellen, who had been inured from infancy to meet the winds of heaven from every quarter, though they might sometimes |