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arrive. The picture of her gaiety and courage, coupled, though

these qualities are, with a curious recklessness of consequences, and of the good opinion of mankind, is an attractive one ; and we feel sorry when the inevitable ending comes. The old nurse,

whose Scotch prudence, horrified at the careless doings of her charge—for the grown woman is a charge as much as the child—

does not diminish her love, is a fine sketch. Altogether, this is a tale of no little power, and that keeps the reader's attention unfaltering to the end.