know how I am, when you could not stop your flirtation with Major Willoughby even to come and ask for me. I must say I am blest with kind relations. And there Miss Ellinor went past my door not a minute ago, singing like a nightingale; a most attentive sister I must say she might at least have had the good-breeding to come in and ask for me,-it would not have been any very great stretch of politeness, I think." "But, my dear Mrs Lennox," said Catherine, we would have been to inquire for you long ere this; but you know you told Charles you did not wish to see any of us to-night, as you thought you would drop asleep."

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"I never said any such thing. I wonder how Charles should know that I wished to be quiet, when he has not been near me this whole night. An attentive husband, truly! I lay awake for more than an hour, thinking that surely some of you would come and inquire how I did; but,

oh, no! What signified that I was ill, when there were two gentlemen in the house; and as for Mr Charles saying I was going to drop asleep, I was more likely to drop into a hysteric fit with the noise and hubbub you set up below. And pray who was that roaring fellow, whose voice came up stairs like a post-horn, enough to wake the seven sleepers? It was very thoughtless, and worse than thoughtless, in them to come to supper, when they knew I was unwell, (another tug at the curtain,) and still more unfeeling in Mr Charles to ask them ;-at least, I suppose it was him, for I am sure Sir Thomas would have had more sense. And, now I think of it, what has become of her ladyship, that she has not been here? I heard her walking backwards and forwards, but she did not think proper to come farther than the door. You are all alike, I sce-a fine family, truly, I have married into."

To Catherine's great relief, the entrance

of Charles put a stop to this harangue, and allowed her to escape to the quiet of her own apartment.

CHAPTER XIV.

Lady Juliana. Here is pretty work, truly; a rich paduasoy, ruff, and fardingale, and never a one to look at them.

Old Play.

THE following morning being Sunday, and one of the horses lame, so that they could not get to town, Catherine and Ellinor were dressing to go to the village church, when Jenkinson entered with a message from Mrs Lennox to the former, that she wished to see her immediately.

"I wonder what she can want?" said El. linor; "do you think she has come to her senses, and wishes to make an apology for her pretty behaviour last night?"

"I should doubt that," replied Catherine; "but we will soon hear; for I shall go down directly."

"Pray," said Mrs Lennox," what kind of people attend church here? Is it a fashionable congregation ?"

Catherine, astonished at the question, answered, that those who lived in P

would surely attend church, and that if she went she would hear a most excellent sermon.

"You don't suppose that my motive for going there has anything to do with the sermon I may happen to hear? I wish to know if there is any chance of seeing fashionable company there ?"

Catherine said the church was generally extremely full, and that there appeared to be a great many fashionable people among them.

Well, since that is the case, I think I shall go; and as I never was in a Scotch church, it will at least be a novelty to me. But I thought you all belonged to the Episcopal church? at least," she added, “Mr Lennox told me so before I married him.”

"And so we do; but when anything