I ventured to inquire her name and address, by whom she had been recommended, or how he had been led to make choice of her.
'She is a very estimable, pious young person,' said he; 'you needn't be afraid.

Her name is Myers, I believe; and she was recommended to me by a respectable old dowager: a lady of high repute in the religious world.

I have not seen her myself, and therefore cannot give you a particular account of her person and conversation, and so forth; but, if the old lady's eulogies are correct, you will find her to possess all desirable qualifications for her position: an inordinate love of children among the rest.' All this was gravely and quietly spoken, but there was a laughing demon in his half-averted eye that boded no good, I imagined.

However, I thought of my asylum in -- shire, and made no further objections.
When Miss Myers arrived, I was not prepared to give her a very cordial reception.

Her appearance was not particularly calculated to produce a favourable impression at first sight, nor did her manners and subsequent conduct, in any degree, remove the prejudice I had already conceived against her.