mistress of other usual studies of her sex.

But the idea we would convey is, that the mother had rather endeavored
to fill her child's mind with real information and knowledge, than to
teach her that the chief end and aim of life were to learn how to
captivate a husband; she preferred to make her daughter a true and
noble-hearted woman, possessed of intrinsic excellence, rather than to
make her marketable for matrimonial sale; to give her something that
would prove to her under any and all circumstances, a reliance viz.,
sound principles and an excellent education.

"Mother, how long before we shall turn our face towards England?" said
the daughter, soon after the scene which we have described of the
sailing ship and her commander.

"Within the month I hope, my child. I have already directed the
solicitor to close up all his business relative to your father's estate,
and the next homeward-bound ship may bear us in it."

"I shall feel sad to leave our peaceful home here, mother, for, save my
dear father's death, has been very pleasant, very happy to be here."

"There are many dear associations that must ever hang about its memory,
my dear; but after all, we shall be returning to our native land, and
that is a sweet thought. It is some twelve years since we lost sight of
English soil."

"I remember it most vividly," said the child, recalling the past; "ay,
as though it were but yesterday!"