lovers," cried Julia quickly.

"Why then did you find it necessary to take that
one from a set, that was untried in the practice of
well-doing, when so excellent a subject as your
cousin Katherine offered?"

"But Anna I know, I feel, is every thing that is good
and sincere, and our sympathies drew us together.
Katherine I loved naturally."

"How naturally?"

"Is it not natural to love your relatives?" said Julia
in surprise.

"No," was the brief answer.

"Surely, Charles Weston, you think me a simpleton.
Does not every parent love its child by natural
instinct?"

"No: no more than you love any of your
amusements from instinct. If the parent was
present with a child that he did not know to be his
own, would instinct, think you, discover their
vicinity?"

"Certainly not, if they had never met before; but
then, as soon as he knew it to be his, he would