unstained name of Clemens a reproach. You and I have different views of his conduct; yours arise from ignorance of the world, mine are formed from mixing with it. T is true that he was kind, his house and his heart were always open, and so far from being mean, the style of his living was profuse; but I think that consideration will not satisfy his creditors; it is more likely to irritate than to soften their feelings to know that he was liberal at their expense.

Well-but I despise the meanness of reckoning farthings, and living upon stint-replied Catherine.

"T is better to do that, sister, than to live upon charity-You seem to have no just idea of the value of money, nor of the cares which oppress my mind, lest after all my efforts, we shall not be able to maintain that appearance of respectability in which we have been educated.

What! the old subject again! said

Catherine, raising the tone of her voice -I declare, you must want me to go and work in the factory-but let me tell you, Edwin, your sister is above that

Here the conversation ended, and a week passed without the subject being resumed. Catherine was the first to introduce it by saying, I forgot to tell you, Edwin, that a party is coming to honour your birth-day to-morrow, and I have bought a new silver coffee-pot for the occasion.

My birth-day would be more honoured by a mind at ease, replied Edwin, brushing away the tear, which in spite of his manliness forced its way into his eye; but, surely, you 've not spent the draft I gave you!

Oh, no! said Catherine gaily, only part of it, and I intend to be very frugal, and try to make your allowance last this quarter.

But what have you spent? asked Edwin, with stifled emotion

I 've only paid for the coffee-pot, and my milliner's bill, and-let me see --something else but I 've really forgotten what-said Catherine with manifest unconcern.

Then I am ruined! exclaimed Edwin with all the bitterness of grief-andstriking his hand upon the table-it is by your extravagance

How!-what!-ruined !-responded Catherine-What do you mean?

I mean this replied Edwin sternly, I trusted to that draft in the present emergency-my credit is stabbed by my uncle's insolvency—a pressure of demands has been made upon me-and small as the amount of what you have spent may be, its loss at the present moment will be irretrievable.

In vain were Catherine's tears, her foolish regrets, and liberal ideas. She was compelled to believe that for the want of a few pounds, a stop was put to mercantile pursuits; and the morrow,

so far from being the day of hilarity and mirth, was spent in gloomy sadness, with the endurance of mortifying recriminations.

No. VIII.

SENTIMENT AND PRINCIPLE.

Lucy and Anna were bound together by the strongest possible ties-they were sisters; and a similarity of taste and pursuits strengthened the bonds which endeared them to each other. They dwelt under the same roof; equally shared the affectionate tenderness of parental regard; reciprocally cherished the love of consanguinity; and professed the same attachment to the cause and interests of true religion. No wonder, therefore, that a cursory observer should say, "they two were one." There was, however, a material difference; a difference which affected every moral movement, and to which might be traced, according to the just reasoning of cause and effect, the peculiar features which characterised