enjoy themselves, is it not? I often wish, Mr. St. Just, that there was a little more amalgamation of classes. The lower orders would learn to think there is not the desire among us to hold ourselves aloof, which many people ascribe to us. I often try and remind myself, that we are all equal in God's sight, and that peer and peasant are alike cared for by Him." Then, catching the eye of one of her well-known protegées, she continued; -" And there's my little friend Jessie, and my dear old gardenwoman's grandchild. Come Mr. St. Just, let me take your arm: I must go and say a word to them." In so confidential and artless a strain did this fascinating woman the ornament of a Sovereign's Court, the companion of Royalty— one of the first ladies in the land-go about scattering charities and good-will among her dependants. In this Christian and practical way did she evince the Truths which Rank and Beauty are too apt to forget, and win the golden opinions of those who were brought within the scope of her example and the sphere of her influence. Good were it indeed for England, if such graces were more frequently displayed before the eyes of our People, and more deeply engraven upon the hearts of our Patricians! CHAPTER X, "Who can recount what transmigrations there HE time had now arrived, when Harold was to begin his London resi dence, and return to that state of pupilage in which candidates for forensic fame must be content to linger full three years longer than ordinary mortals. He had already entered' at one of the great Inns of Court, and having partaken of the Honourable Society's good cheer, at a certain number of 'Hall' dinners, had by that carnal qualification, in the opinion of the learned Benchers, fortified him self in some degree for his intellectual journey towards the woolsack. Yet though nominally a student of nearly two years 'standing,' he was now for the first time to drink to the dregs those professional humiliations, which succeed to the unchequered happiness of a College life. Before leaving Scotland, however, he accepted an invitation from Major Fowler to visit him at his shooting box on Loch Spygie, (a crack spot for the purpose, and famed throughout the North), for a week's 'wild' shooting. The Major had some years ago held a commission in the Indian army, but had left his profession, and returned to England, while still young enough (as he used to say) to enjoy life, and had become inoculated with the modern frenzy for field sports, to every branch of which he had successively and successfully addicted himself. He had hunted at Melton, yachted at Cowes, stalked rein-deer in Norway, and red-deer in the Highlands. At Melton too he had lost his heart to a townsman's daughter; a mèsalliance, which, debarring him in general from the society, in which he had hitherto mixed, and to which from birth, station, and manners, he was entitled, had driven him more and more to take refuge, and find resource, in the physical pastimes of the day. Nevertheless he always received an annual invitation to shoot at Galloway Castle, and a haunch of venison was punctually sent to him with the Duke's compliments,' the beginning of each October. His house was generally full of shooting lodgers, which enabled him, by the share they contributed towards the general expenses of his establishment, to rent a very large tract of country with a very trifling drain upon his purse, and to keep up a very respectable appearance in the county. Though without any pretension to ability in the highest sense of the word, he most emphatically lived by his wits, and brought the most trifling sorts of knowledge to bear practically and usefully upon daily life. He was an excellent dog-doctor and farrier, turner, carpenter, and naturalist; had a specific for every sprain, head-ache, tooth-ache, and catarrh, and was in L |