I shall not soon forget the expression of surprise and pain that was in her fair young countenance.

I had uttered a falsehood in her presence, and thus done violence to the good opinion she had formed of me.

The beautiful ideal of her aunt, which had filled her mind, was blurred over; and her heart was sad in consequence.
"Dear Aggy!" said I, throwing my work upon the floor, and bending earnestly towards her.--"Don't think too meanly of me for this little circumstance.

I never was guilty of that thing before--never! And well have I been punished for my thoughtless folly I spoke from impulse, and not reflection, when I told Mary to say that I was not at home, and repented of what I had done almost as soon as the words passed my lips." Agnes looked at me for some moments, until her eyes filled with tears.

Then she said in a low, sweet, earnest voice: "Mother always says, if she cannot see any one who calls, that she is engaged." "And so do I, dear," I returned.