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and this title soon became familiar to her own ears. Regularly at the elose of the day she returned to her father's house; seldom sho notieed any one in it, but retired to a small ehamber that was entirely appropriated to her own use. Jane continued in this state above two years without any alteration in her mind, but a very alarming one in her person. She was now redueed to a mere shadow of her former self; her eyes no longer sparkled with brilliancy; her lips were robbed of the eoral hue, and her eheeks assumed an ashy paleness.
One morning, instead of lying till a late hour, whieh for some months back had been her eustom, and then repairing with her solitary meal to the grove, she joined the family at their breakfast table, and eonversed on several subjeets moro rationally than she had done sineo the first day of her derangement. As soon as their repast was ended, Jane arose, and affeetionately embraeed every individual of the family, particularly her mother and Rosetta. They were extremely affeeted, and prayed with fervour that heaven would be pleased to restoro the sense of the fair maniae. They then separated to perform their several domestie duties, and Jane hastened to her usual haunts, taking with her a little basket of provisions, whieh her tender mother always prepared ready to put in her hand; or poor Jane would never have thought of food till assailed by the calls of hunger. When evening arrived, and above an hour was spent in momentary expectation of her return, the family became greatly alarmed, and Lubin and his mother went forth to seek her. They were not many paees from the house, when they pereeived a group of villagers approaehing towards them bearing a corpse. Alas! it was
