The Fairy Godmothers. 45

perhaps, up comes fomebody who addrefles the _
admiring gazer on the fubjeét of Lord John Ruf-
fel’s laft fpeech, and the “ beautiful girl,” fo all
important in her own eyes, is as entirely forgotten
as if fhe had never been feen. And then, to let
-you into another fecret, Aurora was by no means
a very entertaining companion : nobody can be,
with their heads full of themfelves: and fhe had
often the mortification, even in that fcene of her
triumph, a ball room, of feeing her admirers drop
off, to amufe themfelves with other people ; lefs
handfome perhaps, but more interefting than her-
felf.

And fo the Fairies, having accompanied her
through a day of Triumphs, mixed with mortifi-
cations, followed by languors, unfettled by hopes
of future joy, clouded with anxieties that all but
fpoilt thofe hopes :—came one and all to the con-
clufion that Aurora could not be confidered as a
model of human happinefs.

Nor could they fay much more for Julia. Per-
haps, indeed, there is more equanimity in the
pleafures of a very rich perfon, than in thofe of a
very beautiful one : but, oh dear, they are bf fuch
a mean fort! Still, there is a good deal of imper-
tinent comfort in money I do admit. Life rolls on,
upon fuch well oiled hinges! The rich fay, “ Do
this,” to people around them; and the people, “do
it.” But the Fairies had no fympathy with fuch an
unnatural fault as the pride of wealth. ‘They faw
Julia reclining in one of thofe ‘* lumbering things”