surrounded only by those who paying no regard to her individual tastes and feelings in the minute circumstances of life perpetually crossed her inclination and upon her prejudices by addressing her on topics the most � her of which she could make no use � helping her to food which she was not in the habit of � proposing for which her health was entirely � choosing for her for which she had no relish � and thus upon her the greatest of life without the least idea that she was not made happy and we some of us well know that there have been those so stripped so destitute of all human sympathy that a voice in the multitude amongst whom they believed themselves to be alone suddenly touching their individual feelings by some reference however simple to things which they had sought or approved or rejected in former has filled their eyes with tears and their hearts with gratitude that any one should be remembering them at the time when they felt themselves most and forlorn lady had charged walter if possible to take his cousin back with him promising that nothing should be wanting to make her residence in town agreeable and that she � be treated with the greatest liberality as money was no object with her this lady was bom in india where at a very early age she married sir william her senior by thirty years at whose death she was led in the possession of more wealth than wisdom to enjoy it she had been the mother of several children who had died in infancy all except one daughter sent over soon after her birth to benefit by � ll pictures op private life the air of scotland amongst her father s relations whether from a want of felicity in her matrimonial connection or from a combination of circumstances which attended the formation of her character the unfortunate mother had suffered a amiable temper to become completely an l having at the same time given way to a general of her fellow creatures she had consequently few friends in india to regret her departure for england and still fewer to welcome her to the shores of that country where she now her sad and isolated existence without the energy or even the desire to make it more happy by being more active and useful companions she had tried in numbers almost incredible but in her opinion they had all treated her some and she had parted from every one with mutual dislike she was now entirely alone � a situation of all others the most dreadful to her and from walter s description of his cousin she caught at the proposition with such that she considered herself extremely when informed that she must a few weeks before could possibly appear in town the appointed day however came at last and weary and somewhat from a coach with her cousin walter who wished for the first time in his life that he could have driven her up to the door in his own carriage if only to inspire the with a little more respect for her who in his opinion deserved the richest honours of an admiring world lady was a handsome woman of that indescribable age about which you feel sorry that any one should make exact dark indolent and perfectly in all her habits to have appeared entirely in character she should have worn a crimson or yellow and slaves should have been crouching at her feet or her with the gorgeous feathers of some indian bird as it was the and the slaves alone were wanting � for she on a couch with all the luxurious of a more sunny and her apartment was furnished with a degree of costly elegance that would scarcely have a tier dark eyes half hid beneath their languid and long shadowy lashes were slowly raised on the entrance of and she stretched forth a delicate white hand that dropped by her side after her effort to perform a welcome as if weighed down with its burden of rings and glittering gems felt all that uncomfortable sensation with which we open out from the of a journey in the presence of those whose has been more recent and who appear never to have known the touch of vulgar dust she therefore begged permission as soon as walter had departed to retire at an early hour her lodging room that of a woman s comfort was prepared with the greatest taste and elegance so that she almost dreaded to her simple wardrobe in such charmed but weariness does much to overcome the influence of finery and though the visions which flitted before her mind as she tossed upon the bed which vainly invited her to repose were many and strange her thoughts were at lest composed and settled for she had not applied in vain to the fountain of all consolation whose healing waters were ever ready for her utmost need one great difficulty amongst many which attend what is called a is the doubt about the actual occupations of the day which every one must feel at first from not knowing what is expected what will please or what will disappoint nor can any thing be altogether more pitiable than the fate of her who goes forth into the world to be agreeable for hire she may possibly have been tenderly in a pleasant home � her wishes gratified � her tastes er feelings indulged � the idol of a partial circle to which her very have her but the stroke of has fallen her father s are suddenly reduced or his life the of his family is taken away and with either of these sad events and the breaking up of the whole establishment have come the usual falling away of summer friends the settlement of the sons in trade and the daughters in the 