He is partial, from early recollections, to that country.

So, my dearest Matilda, I must be yet farther removed from you before I am established in a home.

And O how delighted shall I be when I can say, Come, Matilda, and be the guest of your faithful Julia! 'I am at present the inmate of Mr.and Mrs.Mervyn, old friends of my father.

The latter is precisely a good sort of woman, ladylike and housewifely; but for accomplishments or fancy--good lack, my dearest Matilda, your friend might as well seek sympathy from Mrs.Teach'em;--you see I have not forgot school nicknames.

Mervyn is a different--quite a different being from my father, yet he amuses and endures me.