r otle  negus and cut a sandwicwo: oreroom.”

    And s a most o t.

    “Noo tinued. “You’ve broug you, my dear?”

    “Yes, ma’am.”

    “I’ll see it carried into your room,” sled out.

    “Sreats me like a visitor,” t I. “I little expected sucion; I anticipated only coldness and stiffness: t like ment of governesses; but I must not exult too soon.”

    Surned; ting apparatus and a book or table, to make room for tray s. I felt rat being t of more attention t too, s as s o consider s of  it better to take ies quietly.

    “So-nigaken of w she offered me.

    “ did you say, my dear? I am a little deaf,” returned to my mouth.

    I repeated tion more distinctly.

    “Miss Fairfax? Oure pupil.”

    “Indeed! t your daughter?”

    “No,—I have no family.”

    I s inquiry, by asking in ed  I recollected it  polite to ask too many questions: besides, I o ime.

    “I am so glad,” sinued, as s doe to me, and took t on  e pleasant living o be sure it is pleasant at any time; for ted of late years per still it is a respectable place; yet you knoer-time one feels dreary quite alone in t quarters. I say alone—Leao be sure, and Jo people; but ts, and one can’t converse erms of equality: one must keep t due distance, for fear of losing one’s auty. I’m sure last er (it , and  sno rained and ble a creature but tcman came to till February; and I really got quite melancting niger nigo read to me sometimes; but I don’t task muc it confining. In spring and s