I will send you some tracts to-morrow--so comforting.

Heaven bless you!" This difficulty smoothed, Mrs.Leslie, to her astonishment, found that she had another to contend with in Alice herself.

For, first, Alice conceived that to change her name and keep her secret was to confess that she ought to be ashamed, rather than proud, of her love to Ernest, and she thought that so ungrateful to him!--and, secondly, to take his name, to pass for his wife--what presumption--he would certainly have a right to be offended! At these scruples Mrs.Leslie well-nigh lost all patience; and the banker, to his own surprise, was again called in.

We have said that he was an experienced and skilful adviser, which implies the faculty of persuasion.

He soon saw the handle by which Alice's obstinacy might always be moved--her little girl's welfare.