a. TURNS OF FORTUNE.

devotional exercises, Sarah rose, and the hum.
ble and stricken pair bade adieu to the melan.
choly scene, and betook themselves to their toil-
some journey. Fortunately the stage soon
overtook them, and having, with some difficul-
ty, obtained seats, they were in due time deposi-
ted in avillage, where Sarah felt there would
be no eyes prying into their poverty, no ears to
hear of it, no tongue to tell thereof, and point
them out ‘as the poor ladies that onte were
rich.” This was a great relief, though it came
of pride, and she knew it; and she said within
herself, When health strengthens my body, I
will wrestle with this feeling, for it is unchris-
tian. She never even to Mabel alluded to
what was heaviest on her mind—the loss of the
old furniture; though she cheered her niece by
the assurance that, after a few months, if the
Almighty blessed the exertions they must make
for their own support, she would write to their
friend Mr. Goulding, and say where they were;
by ‘that time,” she said, she hoped to be hum-
ble, as a Christian should be. After this assu-
rance was given, it was astonishing to see how
Mabel revived. Her steps recovered their elas-
ticity, her eyes their brightness. Sarah Bond
had always great superiority in needlework, and
this procured her employment; while Mabel
obtained at once, by her grace aud correct
speaking, two or three day pupils. Her wild
and wayward temper had been subdued by