It caused him to think of Lucretia seriously; it caused him to have her much in his society, and always in his thoughts.

The result was, that by amusing and occupying him, she forced a stronger hold on his affections than she might have done had she been more like the ordinary run of commonplace children.

Of all dogs, there is no dog that so attaches a master as a dog that snarls at everybody else,--that no other hand can venture to pat with impunity; of all horses, there is none which so flatters the rider, from Alexander downwards, as a horse that nobody else can ride.

Extend this principle to the human species, and you may understand why Lucretia became so dear to Sir Miles St.John,--she got at his heart through his vanity.

For though, at times, her brow darkened and her eye flashed even at his remonstrance, she was yet no sooner in his society than she made a marked distinction between him and the subordinates who had hitherto sought to control her.