Anna told me this with her own mouth."

As Julia spoke, the ardour of her feelings brought
the colour to her cheeks and an animation to her
eyes that rendered her doubly handsome; and
Charles Weston, who had watched her varying
countenance with delight, sighed as she concluded,
and rising, left the room.

"I understand that your father intends spending his
winter in Carolina, for his health," said Miss
Emmerson to Katherine.

"Yes," returned the other in a low tone, and
bending over her work to conceal her feelings;
"mother has persuaded him to avoid our winter."

"And you are to be left behind?"

"I am afraid so," was the modest reply.

"And your brother and sister go to Washington
together?"

"That is the arrangement, I believe."

Miss Emmerson said no more, but she turned an
expressive look on her ward, which Julia was too
much occupied with her thoughts to notice. The
illness of her father, and the prospect of a long