They are a good deal worn now; but, you know, we poor girls can't afford des fraiches toilettes.

Happy, happy you! who have but to drive to St.James's Street, and a dear mother who will give you any thing you ask.

Farewell, dearest girl, Your affectionate Rebecca.
P.S .-- I wish you could have seen the faces of the Miss Blackbrooks (Admiral Blackbrook's daughters, my dear), fine young ladies, with dresses from London, when Captain Rawdon selected poor me for a partner! When Mrs.Bute Crawley (whose artifices our ingenious Rebecca had so soon discovered) had procured from Miss Sharp the promise of a visit, she induced the all-powerful Miss Crawley to make the necessary application to Sir Pitt, and the good-natured old lady, who loved to be gay herself, and to see every one gay and happy round about her, was quite charmed, and ready to establish a reconciliation and intimacy between her two brothers.

It was therefore agreed that the young people of both families should visit each other frequently for the future, and the friendship of course lasted as long as the jovial old mediatrix was there to keep the peace.
"Why did you ask that scoundrel, Rawdon Crawley, to dine ?" said the Rector to his lady, as they were walking home through the park.

"I don't want the fellow.