of fancy in the delicious realm of or with pencil and brush shapes and the wings of gaudy or her with dainty and sometimes in musing she rests her chin upon her hand and her soft blue eye upon the flower beds where the humming bird is poised before the but engaged it is a hour i have said once before that a tall sat at the family board and now here she sits in her morning guise silent and alone pondering over the of genius and the dreams of art prudence is an only sister of frank s and holds a station somewhat eminent amongst the household she is rather comely to look upon � very neat in person and is considered high authority in matter of dress but time who mortal shapes with as little mercy as the baker in his morning circuit his stick has his visits even upon this goodly form a shrewd observer may note in sundry evidences of a fastidious choice of colors and of what � to coin a word � i might call a scrupulous that the lapse of human seasons has not passed by this lady he may detect sometimes an vivacity in her and an exaggerated sometimes in her tone of conversation a little too much which a suspicion family of its opposite and there are certain sober lines from the month which are in spite of her light these are quite pleasant signs to an experienced bachelor like myself who can read them with a learned skill they speak of that mellow time when a woman by and her rather by marching out of her fort to challenge attack than by standing a siege within it there is a dash of the picturesque in the character of this lady towards sunset she is apt to stray forth amongst the old oaks and to gather small of wild flowers in the pursuit of which she to get into very pretty attitudes or she falls into at the shifting tints of the clouds on the western sky and produces quite a striking effect by the skilful choice of a position which shows her figure in strong relief against the evening light and then in her maybe found exquisite sketches from her pencil of forms of love and beauty and knights old castles and pensive ladies and � the offspring of an artistic imagination heated with romance and devotion her attire is sometimes simple and plain and her bearing is and but this is never long continued for in spite of her discipline she does not wish to be accounted as one inclined to be serious in her turn of mind i have seen her break out into quite a vivacity this is very likely tr when she is brought into fellowship with a mad cap who is carrying all before her she then her and becomes as a as tha other if prudence has a fault � which proposition i put with an if as a doubtful question � it is in setting the domestic virtues at too high a value one may perhaps be too family i think the establishment of three sunday schools a society a management in a tract association and an outward and visible patronage of the cause of by the actual of her name amongst those who have taken the pledge a little of though i don t wish to set up my judgment too on this point and i think also one may carry the praise of the purity of country life and of the benefits of solitude and to an extent which might appear merciless towards those whose misfortune it is to live in a sphere where these virtues cannot be so fully cultivated if a tendency in this direction be a in the composition of our lady it is a very slight one and is amply by the many pleasant she makes from this phase of her character she with � great ease upon all even with a dangerous facility i may say which sometimes leads her into her occasionally becomes high and into the incomprehensible � but that is only when she is excited her manner at times might be called particularly when in imitation of her brother she the departure of the golden age or upon the prospect of its revival among the glories of the old dominion she had an awful idea of the perfect respectability i might almost say splendor of her and this is one of the few points upon which i know her to be apart from these peculiarities which are but clouds upon a summer sky even its beauty or upon a snow drift she is a specimen of a maiden just standing on that verge from which the prospect beyond presents a landscape gently into and misty confusion of hill and arrayed in golden tinted gray it is no wonder therefore that with family her varied and the advantages of her position the james world should have elevated prudence to the poetical of the of neighboring eyes chapter v ned ned hazard has become my inseparable companion he has a fine flowing stream of good spirits which is sometimes interrupted by a slight under current of sadness it is even a ludicrous that its comic quality from ned s constitutional merriment he is now about thirty three with a tolerably good person a little under six feet and may be seen generally after breakfast whilst old is getting our horses for a morning ride in an olive frock black stock and yellow waistcoat with a cap of light cloth having a of polished leather rather drawn over his dark laughing eye this head gear gives a picturesque effect to his person and suits well with his weather beaten cheek as it a certain reckless expression that with his character the same trait is heightened by the half with which he strikes his boot with his 