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blame, if any one was to be blamed IN
the matter, for being so much alike as
to make all who saw them apart doubt
which was Clara and which was Jane.
She said this with faint smile, and an
effort to speak playfully, which touched
MS to the heart. Then, In a tone and
manner which can never forget, she
asked her sister-charging her ON their
mutual affection and mutual confidence,
TO answer sincerely-if she had noticed
Mr. Streatfeld on the day OF the leVee,
and had afterwards remembered him
at the dinner table, as he had noticed
and remembered her? 1t was only
after Jane had repeated these appeals
still more earnestly and atfectlonately
that Clara summoned courage TO confess
that she had noticed Mr.. Streatfield on
the day of the levee, had thought OF
him afterwards during her a bsence from
London, and had recognised him at our
table as he had recognised her"
''Is it possible own | had not an
ticipated-not thought for one moment
of that.n said Mr.. Langley.
"Perhaps," continued his wife, " 1t is
better that you should see Jane now,
and Judge for yourself. For my part,
her noble resignation under this great
trial has so astonished and impressed
me, that only feel competent to advise
as she advises, TO act as she thinks ut.
begin to think that it is not we who
are TO guide her, but she who is to guide
u.s."
Mr.. Langley remained irresolute for
few minutes; then quilted the room and
proceeded alone TO Jane Langley's
apartment.
When he knocked at the door it was
opened by Clara There was an ex-
preston partly of confusion, partly OF
sorrow on her face; and when he stop
ped as if to speak TO her. she merely
pointed into the room and hurried away
without uttering word.
Mr.. Langley had been prepared by
his wife for the change that had taken
place in his daughter since the day be-
fore; but he felt startled, almost over
whelmed. as he now looked on her
One OF the poor girls most prominent
personal attractions, from her earliest
years, had been the beauty of her COM
plexion; and now the freshness and
the bloom had entirely departed from
her face; ii seemed absolutely colorless.
Her expression. too, appeared to Mr..
LangIey's eyes to have undergone a
melancholy alteration; to have lost lis
youthfulness suddenly; to have gained
a strange character of tirmness and
| thoughtfuIness. which he had never
observed in it before She was sitting
by an open window, commanding full
view of the wide sunny landscape a
Bible which her mother had given her
! Law open on her knees-she was reading
in it as her father entered. For the
| first time in his life he paused, speech
less. as he approached to speak to one
of his own children.
81 am afraid | look very ILL.," she
said. holding out her hand to him "but
am better than look. shall be quite
well in a day or two. Have you heard
nv message, father! Have you been
told %
.sMy love, we will not speak.of il
vet: we will wait few days" said Mr.
Langley.
"You have always been so kind te
me-" she continued in less steady tones
"that am sure you will let me go on
| have very little to say, but that little
must be said now, and then we neee
never recur to it gain. Will you con
slider all that has happened as some,
thing forgotten You have heard wha'
il is that entreat you TO do; will yor
| let him-Mr. Streatfeld-n (She stop
ped. her voice failed for moment bu
She recovered herself again almost i'm
mediately) Will you let Mr.. Streat
field remain here, or recall him if he il
gone. and give him an opportunity 0
explaining himself to my sister?
poor Clara should refuse to see him 70
my sake, pray do not listen TO her.
am sure this is what ought to be done
have been thinking of it very calmly
and feel that it is right. And ther,
is something more | have to beg of you
father; it is, that while Mr.. Streattielt
is here, you will allow me to go AM
stay with my aunt. You know hov
fond she is of me. Her house is not
DAVIS Journey from home. 1t is best 70
| everybody kInuCLl tue -pCSt AoA tACJ a1o
/ should not remain here at present
, and-and-dear father, | have alway
been your spoiled child and kno,
you will indulge me still. If you wi
do what ask you, shall soon get owe
this heavy trial. | shall soon be we
again if am away at my aunts-if-
She paused, and putting one trem
bling arm round her fathers neck, hi
, her face on his breast For some tim
Mr.. Langley could not trust himself
answer her. There was something ne
deeply touching only, but impressiv
: and sublime, in the moral heroism
, this young girl, whose heart and min
, wholly inexperienced in the harde
J and darker emergencies of life--no'
rose in the strength of their nativ
purity superior to the bitterest, cruele'
| trial that either can undergo; who's
) patience and resignation, called fort
+ for the first time by calamity whic
5 suddenly thwarted the purposes an
} paralysed the affections that had bee