He next asked for Miss Silence, who soon presented herself.

Mr.Bradshaw asked, in a rather excited way, "Is it possible, Miss Withers, that your niece has quitted you to go to a city school ?" Miss Silence answered, with her chief--mourner expression, and her death-chamber tone: "Yes, she has left us for a season.

I trust it may not be her destruction.

I had hoped in former years that she would become a missionary, but I have given up all expectation of that now.
Two whole years, from the age of four to that of six, I had prevailed upon her to give up sugar,--the money so saved to go to a graduate of our institution--who was afterwards----he labored among the cannibal-islanders.

I thought she seemed to take pleasure in this small act of self-denial, but I have since suspected that Kitty gave her secret lumps.