Whither went she? From the place where He was not, to the place where He was? No. I, the Lord, fill heaven and earth. She went not from place to place, as it is not required to do in following Christ; but she went from life to life, from manners to manners, from good to better, from grace to grace, and this is to follow Christ, the Lord of glory."

"Thank you; I shall try and remember that, and to understand these things better. But it is time for me to go in, and you have not answered my question, if you think I ought to propose leaving Holly Lodge?"

"No, I do not; at least not until you have tried again, whether you may not be less unsuited to the post than you suppose. One point on which you have won my mother's good opinion is, that you have gained Fox's esteem; and in other things I am inclined to believe the difficulty less want of capacity, than —. Shall I finish?"

"You need not," was the laughing answer; "I will complete the sentence conscientiously in my own mind, and if you advise another trial, will make it. You have been a good while alone, ma'am," added she, as they entered the drawingroom; "my walk has been longer than I intended, but the time passed quicker than I thought."

"Because you seldom give yourself the trouble to think, Miss Harcourt. Now you are come, be * Disce Vivere. Christopher Sutton, D.D.

so good as to put Fox's rug straight, it has been disturbing him all the afternoon, poor fellow."

"I wonder," said Eleanor, doing as she was requested, "that Fox, who is so strong-minded on some points, should be put out by such a trifle."

"It is not a trifle to him; he hasn't shut his eyes since you went, but has never taken them off the end of the rug, which was turned up. Why, Alfred, I looked out at the window not long ago, and thought, by the way in which you were speaking, you must be preaching a sermon."

"I suppose my subject must have excited me, mother. I was instructing my wife and Miss Harcourt on the rights of woman.'

"It is quite unnecessary, as far as Miss Harcourt is concerned; she has too great an idea of them already, I assure you."

"My lecture will do no harm, ma'am, and is to be followed by a general reformation in woman's duties, beginning with account books, and ending, -let me think,—with Fox's rug."

"Well, I hope it may. Miss Harcourt, if your head is not turned, perhaps you will give me my spectacles; my arm is too stiff to reach them myself."

"I assure you, ma'am," answered the young lady addressed, and handing what was required, "it comes among my privileges to do as you wish."

The old lady was mollified, and kissing her, said, "I am often angry, my dear; and to-day I think my rheumatism is making me very cross."

CHAPTER XVI.

Storms by the Sea.

"As a wild wave in the wide north sea, Green glimmering towards the summit, bears with all Its stormy crests that smoke against the skies

Down on a bark, and overbears the bark,

And him that helms it."

WHEN,

-IDYLLS OF THE KING-TENNYSON.

THEN, at the end of another week, Mr and Mrs Hervey returned home, all parties looked hopefully to the future; and in Eleanor's letters to Adela, through the spring and summer, there was a happy, quiet tone, which gave the latter much comfort. She longed to see Eleanor again, but of this there appeared no chance for the present, as Mrs Hervey was not coming that year to pay a visit at the rectory; and, after all, it was perhaps better that Eleanor should be left a while to work out her lesson without leaning too much on human sympathy and assistance. Mrs Hervey, with all her faults, was a good woman; she was only one

of those who have been well described as "crotchety Christians," not to be likened to a "palm-tree."

Therefore Adela, as she had so often done before, trusted quietly for the future. She knew that it is sometimes both wisdom and "strength" to "sit still" (Isaiah xxx. 7). In July Mr Edgerton took all the family back to their old haunts by the sea. He purposed remaining with them himself, as the place had now a new attraction for him, from an old naval friend having lately gone to reside there. Captain Stevens was a bachelor, though not of an age to like being called old. He had, whilst on service, met with an accident which incapacitated him from following his profession, and having means enough to make himself comfortable, was, he said, “laid up in ordinary for his natural life.” He had fixed his home close on the sea-shore, that he might be able from time to time to see his "old lady," as he termed the vessel he had commanded, whenever her business might bring her that way on her sea path. George and Henry did not come home now till July, in consequence of being at a public school. Henry, whose love for the sea had increased instead of diminishing, became a great favourite with his father's friend, whose side he seldom left except for the company of the boatmen on the beach, among all of whom he lived on the terms of closest friendship, and Adela and the girls had very little of his company.

Among all his seafaring acquaintances, however,

there were none with whom Henry was so intimate as with a family of the name of Heath, who lived in a small cottage which stood by itself on the beach, at the foot of the high cliffs, and so close to the sea as hardly to be out of the reach of the waves, the heavy spray sometimes washing almost over it. It was farther from town than the quarter in which the greatest part of the fishing population resided, but the Heath family had occupied it for many years, in fact ever since Tim had brought home a mistress for his house. Old as it was, they would probably not have been so comfortable elsewhere, and the fishing had always been profitable enough to keep them from want. The family consisted of Mr and Mrs Tim, a daughter, and two sons who followed their father's calling, and accompanied him to sea. In partnership with some of their neighbours, they owned a large fishing-boat, which had been named "The Lovely Peggy," we believe in compliment to Mrs Tim, who had been introduced to the firm as a bride just at the time they were purchasing the new boat, which was henceforth to provide her with the necessaries of life. "The Lovely Peggy" had always borne a lucky character, and her owners were known as industrious and enterprising men, who frequently went far for what they sought, and often stayed away many days, seldom returning empty-handed, having generally found a market for their fish elsewhere, or among the boats which