CHAPTER VI.
VARIETIES.
"Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold and despair." THE sorrow of Frado was very great for her pet, and Mr.Bellmont by great exertion obtained it again, much to the relief of the child.

To be thus deprived of all her sources of pleasure was a sure way to exalt their worth, and Fido became, in her estimation, a more valuable presence than the human beings who surrounded her.
James had now been married a number of years, and frequent requests for a visit from the family were at last accepted, and Mrs.Bellmont made great preparations for a fall sojourn in Baltimore.

Mary was installed housekeeper--in name merely, for Nig was the only moving power in the house.

Although suffering from their joint severity, she felt safer than to be thrown wholly upon an ardent, passionate, unrestrained young lady, whom she always hated and felt it hard to be obliged to obey.

The trial she must meet.