taste pleasures, from which their animosity to each other had
hitherto debarred them. They all sat looking pleased on their
companions; their faces borrowed beauty from the calmness and
goodness of their minds; and all those ugly frowns, and all that
ill-natured sourness, which when they were angry and cross were
but too plain in their faces, were now entirely fled; jessamine
and honeysuckles surrounded their seats, and played round their
heads, of which they gathered nosegays to present each other with.
They now enjoyed all the pleasure and happiness that attend those
who are innocent and good.

Miss Jenny, with her heart overflowing with joy at this happy
change, said, 'Now, my dear companions, that you may be convinced
what I have said and done was not occasioned by any desire of
proving myself wiser than you, as Miss Sukey hinted while she was
yet in her anger, I will, if you please, relate to you the history
of my past life; by which you will see in what manner I came by
this way of thinking; and as you will perceive it was chiefly
owing to the instructions of a kind mamma, you may all likewise
reap the same advantage under good Mrs. Teachum, if you will obey
her commands, and attend to her precepts. And after I have given
you the particulars of my life, I must beg that every one of you
will, some day or other, when you have reflected upon it, declare
all that you can remember of your own; for, should you not be able
to relate anything worth remembering as an example, yet there is
nothing more likely to amend the future part of anyone's life,
than the recollecting and confessing the faults of the past.'

All our little company highly approved of Miss Jenny's proposal,
and promised, in their turns, to relate their own lives; and Miss