Poor child! It will be hard for her to leave us, and go to her new home.

That thought is beginning to pain me most." "And such a home! I have seen Mrs.Jasper frequently, and, if my observation is correct, she is no true woman.

Dress, it seemed to me, was all she cared for; and there was a captiousness and ill-temper about her, at times, that was, to say the least of it, very unbecoming." "And to her care we must resign this precious one," said Edith, with a sigh.

"Oh, how the thought pains me! Dear, dear child!" "The time is yet distant," remarked Claire--"distant by nearly two years.

Let it be our duty to prepare her as fully for the new relation as possible.