18 TURNS OF FORTUNE.

she knew not where. The mourning for her-
self and her servant was ordered froma neigh
bouring shop, with a carelessness as to expense
which made people say that Sarah was of
habits different from her father. :

The rector and curate of the parish both
called, but she shrunk from strangers. The
very first act, however, of her liberty, was to
take a pew at church, a whole pew, to herself,
which she ordered to be curtained all round.
Some said this indicated pride, some said os
tentation; but it was simply shyness. And
soon after she placed in the aisle a white mar-
ble tablet, “To the memory of Jacob Bond,
who died in the seventy-eighth year of his age,
deeply lamented by his sorrowing daughter.”

Some ladies connected with a society for
clothing the poor, called upon and explained
to her their object; she poked five old guineas
into the hands of the spokeswoman, but for-
bade the insertion of her donation in the visit-
er’s book. During the following week she had
humerous applications from various charitable
bodies, to whom she gave generously, they
said, while she reproached herself with narrow-
ness; to all, however, she positively refused to
become a yearly subscriber; and when closely
urged by the rector to be one of the patrons of
his school, she answered, « Sir, my father re-
ceived his property suddenly, and I may be as
suddenly deprived of it. I will give, but I will