properly the having it over.'

'I give Jem credit for having secured a first-rate governess for
you.'

'That she is! Why, with her I really do like reading and drawing all
the morning! I almost believe that some day I shall wake up and find
myself an accomplished young lady! And, Louis, have you read the
last Western Magazine?'

'I have read very little for sport lately.'

'Then I must tell you. Jem was bemoaning himself about having
nothing to give to the new Blind Asylum, and the next evening Isabel
brought out the prettiest little manuscript book, tied with blue
ribbon, and told him to do as he pleased with it. It was a charming
account of her expedition to the Hebrides, written out for her
sisters, without a notion of anything further; but Jem sent it to
this Magazine, and it is accepted, and the first part is out. She
will have quite a sum for it, and all is to go to the Blind Asylum!'

'Capital!--Let me take it home to night, Clara, and I will stand an
examination on it to-morrow.'

'We ask her whether she projects a sketch of the Paris Revolution,'
said Clara, laughing. 'She has a famous heap of manuscripts in her
desk, and one long story about a Sir Roland, who had his name before
she knew Jem, but it is all unfinished, she tore out a great many
pages, and has to make a new finish; and I am afraid the poor knight
is going to die of a mortal wound at his lady's feet. Isabel likes