When she entered the house
Bessy could not forbear to smile, though the new idea, which he h&d suggested with regard to Edmund, filled her with alar She had been so selfishly absorbed in her own regrets and sorrows, she had scarcely noticed what was passing around her. She reproached herself for her want of sympathy; her forgetful. Bess of the happiness of other, she took a seat by Edmund, who sat as Estelle had described, apart and abstracted ; with a paler cheek and sadder brow than she had seen him wear since his retur “How forgetful, how neglectful have I been’ thought she, ” m this dear, irreproachable brother of mine! How completely sugallowed up in self! Shall I brood in sullen secrecy over the image of a stranger, oblivious of one whom I have always loved with such idolizi ing affections and he too may be unhappy !” I These selfreproachful thoughts gave an inexpressiblesoilness to her countenance, and tenderness to her manner, as, seated closely at his side, she leaned her arm in his lap, and her radiant ringlets glittered on his breast. There was something so endearing in her attitude, so supplicating in her look, so beautiful and graceful in her whole appearance, that Edmund gazed upon her for a moment as upon a lovely picture; then putting his arm around her, he drew her closer to him, and the shadow passed away from his bro Estelle came running in, with her white apron full of flowers, and sitting down on the carpet the other side of him, began to arrange them into group ” Stop,” cried Laura, approaching the “Don’t move, any of you; you must be attitudinizing for a pictur I never saw any thing so pretty in my lif I wish Viv was her Don’t you, Bessy ?”" No: she don’t,” answered Estelle, covering Bess a short, quick sigh with the sound of her eager voic ” She wouldn’t beg him to stay when I asked her; and she didn’t even bid him goodby. I don’t like Mr. Vivian at all, for not staying and painting Aunt Patty and me, when he’d got the big canvas all ready. I neard Aunt Patty tell Bessy, the other day, if he did come back,And did Aunt Patty say that,” exclaimed Frank.Bless the dear old sool! I’ll go, this miouj#, and takpinch of snuff with her. and praise her bedrquity till my tpngue.