'But never did,' said I; and then she insisted upon my telling that falsehood, and I refused, until she whipped me, and made me promise to say whatever she wished me to.

In this way I was trained to be what I am.

Nobody loves me; nobody ever can love me; and sometimes when Mag speaks so kindly to you, and looks so affectionately upon you, I think, what would I not give for some one to love me; and then I go away to cry, and wish I had never been born." Here Mrs.Hamilton called to her daughter, and gathering up her work, Lenora left the room just as Margaret entered it, on her return from the village..