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Cecilia seated at the organ, and butter wouldn't melt in her mouth. "She is quite pretty and very clever," said Miss Cordelia one day. "I think she will marry well." "Do you think she's as pretty as Mary?" asked Miss Patty. "My dear!" said Miss Cordelia with a look that said 'What a question you are asking! " is pretty in a way, of course," she said, "but there is something about our Mary "

The theory seems at first sight to contain the most immediate instruction; but it is not really so. Cibber and others, as you know, wanted to alter Shakespeare. The French king, in "Lear," was to be got rid of; Cordelia was to marry Edgar, and Lear himself was to be rewarded for his sufferings by a golden old age. They could not bear that Hamlet should suffer for the sins of Claudius.

The little girls selected for the drive were in the playroom putting on their hoods and coats in great delight. Cordelia hurriedly put on her own, and, opening her cupboard, she unlocked a doll trunk, taking out a tiny purse for coins, whose portly sides bespoke some wealth within.

But they had arranged that Cordelia should be hanged in prison, and though the Duke of Albany sent messengers at once, it was too late. The old King came staggering into the tent of the Duke of Albany, carrying the body of his dear daughter Cordelia, in his arms. And soon after, with words of love for her upon his lips, he fell with her still in his arms, and died.

"But Dolly looks so horrid, I am much ashamed of her," was Hannah Straight Tree's answer. Cordelia Running Bird heard the fierce discussion through the open door, near which she knelt at work, and the bitter tears ran down her face. When at length her work was done as well as she was able, and the last stair wiped, she went back upstairs on tiptoe to inspect her floor and see if it was dry.

"Ah, I see my son has not forgotten his native Corsica; then he will also have a kind look for poor old Cordelia, who, both in good and evil days, has been the most faithful and honest servant of our house, who frequently carried Napoleon Bonaparte for whole days in her arms, and when he was sick sat at his bedside and nursed him with the tenderness of a mother.

Still, I am going to find time to say that all the love and affection which Miss Cordelia and Miss Patty had ever woven into their fancies were now showered down upon Mary falling softly and sweetly like petals from two full-blown roses when stirred by a breeze from the south. When she was a baby, Mary's nose had an upward tilt.

Like Cordelia in the play she could not speak untruths even for her own happiness. "Truly, you are an unamiable guest," snarled the owl, his yellow eyes growing keen and fierce with anger and mortified pride. "You are an ungrateful bird, Miss, and the bat is right. You do not deserve this generous hospitality which I have offered, this goodly shelter which you asked. Away with you!

"Two best dresses and two shoes and stockings look too many, when the other little home sisters have not one best thing." Cordelia Running Bird was quite strongly tempted to confide still further in the friendly playroom girl, who had sustained her through the trying tempest of events, but she resisted and began to hem the little skirt in silence. "Ee! how short you have it!"

There was less heart and spirit than usual for the regular journalizing letter; but the five weeks' voyage had been most beneficial in restoring health and energy, and it had one very important effect upon the Mission, for it was here that Lieutenant Capel Tilly, R.N., became so interested in the Mission and its head, as to undertake the charge of the future 'Southern Cross. The 'Cordelia' was about to return to England, where, after she was paid off, Mr.