I wonder he never married." "Upon my word!" said Miss Janet, "you will be wondering next, why I never married.

But know, Miss Ellen, that Mr.Barbour once had a romantic love-affair--he was to have been married to a lovely girl, but death envied him his bride, and took her off--and he has remained true to her memory.

It was a long time before he recovered his cheerfulness.

For two years he was the inmate of an asylum." "Poor old gentleman," said Ellen.

"I do believe other people besides me have trouble." "Ah! when you look around you, even in the world, which you anticipate with so much pleasure, you will see many a smiling face that tries to hide a sad and aching heart; a heart that has ached more painfully than yours." "No," said Ellen, looking up from the ottoman at Miss Janet's feet, where she was seated; and then bursting into tears.