However, he takes his lot very quietly, and they are coming home to talk the question over with us; Caroline having decided not to make any positive arrangements for this change of state till she has seen me.

Subject to my own and my father's approval, she says, they are inclined to settle the date of the wedding for November, three months from the present time, that it shall take place here in the village, that I, of course, shall be bridesmaid, and many other particulars.

She draws an artless picture of the probable effect upon the minds of the villagers of this romantic performance in the chancel of our old church, in which she is to be chief actor--the foreign gentleman dropping down like a god from the skies, picking her up, and triumphantly carrying her off.

Her only grief will be separation from me, but this is to be assuaged by my going and staying with her for long months at a time.

This simple prattle is very sweet to me, my dear sister, but I cannot help feeling sad at the occasion of it.