All the higher traits of womanhood that gave such a beauty to the mother's character were as the unfolding bud in her.

Every one loved Fanny, not even excepting Aunt Grace, who rarely saw any thing in her niece that violated her strict sense of propriety.

Since the removal of the family to Woodbine Lodge, the education of Fanny had been under the direction of a highly accomplished governess.

In consequence, she was quite withdrawn from intercourse with young ladies of her own age.

If, from this cause, she was ignorant of many things transpiring in city life, the purer atmosphere she daily breathed gave a higher moral tone to her character.