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More than once or then Pet caressed the dog,

it appeared to Clenna her do it;

and, in one particular instance when Gowan stood on the other side of

the dog, and bent his head at the sales's eyes as he hurried out of the room It was

either the fact too, or he fancied further, that Pet herself was not

insensible to these little incidents; that she tried, with a ood father how much

she loved him; that it was on this account that she fell behind the

rest, both as they went to church and as they returned from it, and

took his arm He could not have sworn but that as he walked alone in

the garden afterwards, he had an instantaneous gli to both her parents with the greatest

tenderness, and weeping on her father's shoulder

The latter part of the day turning out wet, they were fain to keep the

house, look over Mr Meagles's collection, and beguile the time with

conversation This Gowan had plenty to say for hi manner He appeared to be an artist by

profession, and to have been at Roht,

careless, amateur ith him--a perceptible limp, both in his devotion