and poetical reading with her skill in fancy work and the neatly bound copies of s more s sacred s on self knowledge and on the sublime and beautiful which were the chief ornaments of the were au inscribed with her name and had been bought with her pocket money when she was in her it must have been at least fifteen years since the latest of those purchases but miss s skill in work appeared to have gone through more numerous phases than her literary taste for the boxes the and wax baskets the fan the transferred on the and the recent of wax flowers showed a in freshness which made them to widely different periods fingers and robust patience but there are still many points of mind and person which they leave vague and so i must tell you that miss had dark a sallow complexion and an e disposition as to her features there was not much to in them for she had little nose less lip and no and as to her intellect her friend mis often said she did n t know a more sensible person to talk to than mary there waa no one she liked better to come and take a quiet cup of tea with her and read a little of s mary had often told her a great deal of her mind when they were sitting she said there were many things to bear in every condition of life and nothing should induce her to marry without a prospect of happiness once when airs admired her wax flowers she said ah mrs think of the beauties of nature she always spoke very prettily did very different indeed from miss indeed was not a general favorite while most people it a pity that a sensible woman like had not found a good husband � and even her fe male friends said nothing more of her than that her face was like a piece of with two scotch pebbles stuck in it � waa always spoken of and it was a customary kind of with young ladies to recommend her as a wife to any gentleman they happened to be with � her fat her finery and her thick ankles to give to the joke notwithstanding the absence of novelty miss however possessed the of music and her singing of o no we never mention her and the soldier s tear was so an accession to the repentance of a tea party that no one cared to offend her as had a high spirit of her own and in spite of her rounded had a particularly sharp tongue her reading had been more extensive than her s embracing most of the fiction in mr s library and nothing but an acquaintance with the course of her studies afford a to the r in her dress which were suggested by the style of beauty whether sentimental or severe possessed by the heroine of the three actually in perusal a piece of lace which drooped round the edge of her white bonnet one week had been rejected by the next and her which on loomed through a haze of were on sunday seen in distinct red outline on her bust like the sun on a ft bank the black velvet meeting with a crystal clasp which one evening encircled her head had on another descended to her neck and n a third to her wrist suggesting to an active imagination either a of the ornament or a fearful of in miss s person with this constant application of art to dress she could have had little time for fancy work even if she had not been destitute of her sister s taste for that delightful and truly feminine occupation and here at least you perceive the justice of the opinion as to the relative of the two miss for matrimony when a man is happy enough to win the affections of a sweet who can soothe his cares with and respond to all his most cherished ideas with and chair covers in german wool he has at least a of domestic comfort whatever trials may await him out of doors what a resource it is under fatigue and irritation to have drawing room well supplied small which would always be ready if you ever wanted to set on them and what a bleeding heart can equal copious squares of which are useful for slipping down the moment you touch them how our fathers managed without is the wonder but i believe some small and feeble substitute existed in their time under the name of however had neglected as well as other forms of fancy work at school to be sure she had spent a great deal of time in acquiring flower painting according to the ingenious then ol applying the shapes of leaves and flowers cut out in and a brush over the surface thus conveniently marked out but even the cases and hand which were her last half year s performances in that way were not considered eminently and had long been consigned to the retirement of the best bedroom thus there was a good deal of family between and her sister and i am afraid there was also a little family dislike but mary s had usually been kept imprisoned behind her thin lips for was not only of a disposition but was her mother s pet the old lady being herself stout and preferring a more style of cap than she could prevail on ner daughter mary to make up for her but i have been describing miss as she was in former days only for her appearance this evening as she sits on the green tickets is in sinking contrast with what it was three or four months ago her plain gray dress and plain white collar could never have belonged to her wardrobe before that date and though she is 