couple in question were most equally matched, and neither of them could doubt so happily, that they found it a difficult thing not to own the truth so near their lips; and when the sisters, too happy to contain their joy and gratitude, broke on the angry tête-à-tête, their cold hearts and laboured malignity, to their own astonishment, gave way before the genuine atmosphere of better feelings.
"Oh! mamma, thank you a thousand times for letting us go; Louisa is so very thankful, and so very happy!"
"But she did cry so hard when she first saw us and became aware of your kindness, that it would have made any body else cry."
"Very sentimental, indeed! Then it seems she is forgiven?" said Lady Penrhyn.
"It would not do for me to oppose Lord Rotheles, as you very well know," answered Lady Anne.
"Oh! I don't blame you at all; Lord Penrhyn has vexed me so much that I mean to see Charles before long, I assure you; for, after all, he is my only brother—pray, what kind of a crib did you find them stuffed into?"
"Crib! indeed, it is the prettiest little house that ever was beheld."
"With a greengrocer's repository on one side, and a coalshed on the other?"
"There is nothing of the kind even within view," cried Helen, warmly, "nor any one object that could
