Kitty used to take the music, and I often remember this suddenly when superintending a lesson.

It is a pain to me that so many wish to acquire 'The Land o' the Leal,' which Kitty sang so often to I---- M---- at Magenta Cottage." Even the French, of which Miss Ailie had once been very proud, was slipping from her.

"Kitty and I kept up our French by translating I---- M----'s letters and comparing our versions, but now that this stimulus is taken away I find that I am forgetting my French.

Or is it only that I am growing old?
too old to keep school ?" This dread was beginning to haunt Miss Ailie, and the pages between which the blotting-paper lay revealed that she had written to the editor of the _Mentor_ asking up to what age he thought a needy gentlewoman had a right to teach.

The answer was not given, but her comment on it told everything.