20 TURNS OF FORTUNE.

herggwn personal expenses, Sarah Bond was
exceedingly frugal.

After her removal, though shy and strange as
ever, still she Jooked kind things to her rich, and
did kind things to her poor neighbours, only in
a strange, unusual way; and her charity was
given by fits and starts—not continuously. She
moved silently about her garden, and evinced -
much care for her plants and flowers. Closely
economical from long habit, rather than in-
clination, her domestic arrangements were
strangely at variance with what could not be
called public gifts, because she used every effort
in her power to conceal her munificence. She
did not, it is true, think and calculate, how the
greatest good could be accomplished. She
knew but one path to charity, and that was
paved with gold. She did not know how to
offer sympathy, or to enhance a gift by the
manner of giving. Her father had sacrificed
everything to multiply and keep his wealth ;
all earthly happiness had been given up for it ;
and unsatisfying as it had been to her own
heart, it had satisfied his. Inclination prompt-
ed to give, habit to withhold; and certainly
Sarah Bond felt far more enjoyment in obeying
inclination than in following habit; though
sometimes what she believed a duty triumphed
over inclination.

If Sarah Bond ministered to her sister’s ne-
cessities, she did so secretly, hardly venturing