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"A guardian angel o'er his life presiding Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing." A few weeks had rolled by and Helen Rushton once more entered "Sunnybank." Marguerite receives her visitor with open arms. "I am so glad to see you, Madge," exclaimed the quaint little maiden, as she threw aside the pretty wrap, worn carelessly around her shoulders.

The woman receives what he pays her with a grateful, 'Bless ye, bless ye, deary! and seems, tired out, to begin making herself ready for sleep as he leaves the room. But seeming may be false or true. It is false in this case; for, the moment the stairs have ceased to creak under his tread, she glides after him, muttering emphatically: 'I'll not miss ye twice!

The poor squire was something like the little boy in the child's story, who asks all sorts of birds and beasts to come and play with him; and, in every case, receives the sober answer, that they are too busy to have leisure for trivial amusements. The father wanted the son to put down his book, and talk to him: it was so wet, so dull, and a little conversation would so wile away the time!

'He that doeth the will of My Father which is in heaven, the same is My brother and sister and mother. That which is even sacreder, the purest and most complete union that humanity is capable of that, too, He consecrates; for even it, sacred as it is, is capable of a higher consecration, and, sweet as it is, receives a new sweetness when we think of 'the Bride, the Lamb's wife, and remember the parables in which He speaks of the Marriage Supper of the Great King, and sets forth Himself as the Husband of humanity.

After this she is taken to the residence of her husband, where she has a hut for herself, and becomes one of several wives, for polygamy is general. Dancing, feasting, and drinking on such occasions are prolonged for several days. In case of separation, the woman returns to her father's family, and the husband receives back what he gave for her.

"Then, knowing that his favorite son will be near him, I shall leave him with the freer heart and go away with my brother, withersoever he may be sent. Mr. Fabian is expected to return within a few weeks, and will probably be here long before my brother receives his orders. Now, Mrs.

"Ah! you mean that poor Laicques will have to suffer." "I am afraid it is almost inevitable, duchesse." "Oh! he only receives twelve thousand francs pension." "Yes, but the king of Spain has some influence left; advised by M. Fouquet, he might get M. Laicques shut up in prison for a little while."

In this one act, man receives if the two things are to be separated full satisfaction of the bodily and spiritual demands of his nature. The feeding, clothing, and taking care of himself and his family, constitute the satisfaction of the bodily demands and requirements; and doing the same for other people, constitutes the satisfaction of his spiritual requirements.

G. Eugène Simon, formerly French Consul in China, declares that "infanticide is a good deal less frequent in China than in Europe generally, and particularly in France." A statement that inferentially receives the support of Dr. E. J. Eitel.

Lake Winnipeg is nearly three hundred miles in length, but it is very narrow being in its widest reach not over fifty miles, and in many places only fifteen miles from shore to shore. It trends nearly due north and south, leaning a little north-west and south-east, and receives many large rivers, as the Red, the Saskatchewan, and the Winnipeg.