In his present state he is not fit to be, played with.' Rose, stedfastly eyeing her, seemed to swallow down something in her throat, and said: 'I will obey you, Countess.

I hoped you would allow me to nurse him.' 'Quiet above all things, Rose Jocelyn!' returned the Countess, with the suavity of a governess, who must be civil in her sourness.

'If you would not complete this morning's achievement--stay away.' The Countess declined to see that Rose's lip quivered.

She saw an unpleasantness in the bottom of her eyes; and now that her brother's decease was not even remotely to be apprehended, she herself determined to punish the cold, unimpressionable coquette of a girl.

Before returning to Caroline, she had five minutes' conversation with.