things wrong side out a sin to have his hair cut like his father s� or the honourable or this sir philip s� or any other christian man s well i wish it would come into your wise head that christian tongues were not made for railing as to my being serious to day that is entirely out of the question therefore you may spare yourself hint and and go to my aunt and ask her for my blue and but no � she said stopping for she recollected that she had directed the blue because it matched her blue s gift and a secret voice told her she had best under existing circumstances lay that favourite aside ho bring me my pink and my obeyed but not without muttering as she left the room a remonstrance against the of dress was one of those persons in every class of life whose virtues are most conspicuous in sins they are not inclined to we ought perhaps to for so hope humble and disagreeable a personage upon our readers but the truth is she figured too much on the family record of the to be suppressed by their faithful historian those personages in the copious of modern times seem to be a necessary in life and like shoes and smoky rooms constitute a portion of its trials had first found favour with mrs from her religious exterior to employ none but servants was a rule of the and there were certain set phrases and modes of dress which produced no slight impression upon the minds of the to do justice she had many virtues and though her re was of the order and therefore particularly disagreeable to her spiritual mistress yet her household faculties were invaluable for then as now in the interior of new england a faithful servant was like the genius of a fairy tale � no family could hope for more than one long possession s rights and increased her which were naturally most freely exercised on those members of the family who bad grown fi om youth to maturity under her eye in nothing was the sweetness of hope s temper more conspicuous than in the perfect good nature with which she bore the of this who like a cross cur was ready to bark at every by youth and beauty the labours of the toilet and our young friends though on this occasion hope about the in they e to make were not in themselves and when mrs presented herself to attend them to dinner they were her upon my word she said young ladies you have done honour to the occasion it is not every day we have two gentlemen fresh from old england to dine with us i am glad you have shown yourselves of the importance of the it is every woman s duty upon all occasions to look as well as she can and a duty so faithfully performed my dear aunt said hope that i fancy like other duties it becomes easy from habit easy replied with perfect m second nature my dear second nature i was taught from a child to determine the first thing in the morning what i should wear that day and now it is as natural to me as to open my eyes when i wake i should madam said that other and high thoughts were more fitting a rational creature preserved through the night watches hope was exquisitely susceptible to her aunt s but she would fain have sheltered them from the observation of others now my gentle she whispered to miss is not your and this is not lecture day on days slaves were set free you know and why should not follies be miss could not have failed to have made some sage reply to her friend s but the hope of a bell announced the dinner and the young ia arm in arm followed mrs to the dining room just as they entered hope whispered remember the day is sacred and may not be by a sad countenance this was a well timed caution it called a slight tinge to miss s cheeks and relieved her too ex met them at the door the light of his happiness seemed to every object he mrs on her appearance told her she had not in the least changed since he saw her � an implied compliment always after a woman has passed a certain age he congratulated miss upon the very apparent effect of the climate on her health and then breaking through the embarrassment that slightly constrained him in addressing her he turned to hope and they talked of the past the present and the future with spontaneous animation their feelings according and as naturally as the music of the stars when they sang together s i b ue chapter xi our new england shall tell and boast of her a as patient as but not admitting any of his criminal as devout as but not liable to any of his a governor in whom the of christianity made a most improving addition unto the virtues f wherein even without those he would have made a parallel for the great men of or of rome which the pen of a has r the governor s house stood in the main street washington street on the ground now occupied by south row there was a little court in of it on one side a fine garden on the other a beautiful lawn or as it was called green extending to the corner on which the old south church now stands and an ample yard and offices in the rear the mighty master of fiction has but to wave his to present the past to his readers with all the and distinctness of the present but we who follow him at an distance � we who have no s wherewith we can imitate the miracles 