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ROSE.
Have you seen a young audacious spirit smitten to the earth?
It is a singular study; and, in the case of young women, a trap for inexperienced men.

Rose, who had commanded and managed every one surrounding her since infancy, how humble had she now become!--how much more womanly in appearance, and more child-like at heart! She was as wax in Lady Elburne's hands.

A hint of that veiled episode, the Beckley campaign, made Rose pliant, as if she had woven for herself a rod of scorpions.

The high ground she had taken; the perfect trust in one; the scorn of any judgement, save her own; these had vanished from her.