&0 ALL IS NOT GOLD THAT GLITTERS.

the gentleman whom Helen had declared she
did not prefer to Edward, though she would
rather marry him.

CHAPTER III.

I think I have said before that the most try-
ing and dangerous position a young woman
can occupy, is that where her station. is not de-
fined—where she considers herself above the
industrious classes by whom she is surrounded
—and where those with whom her tastes and
habits assimilate, tonsider her greatly beneath
them. Superficial observers (and the great
mass of human beings are nothing more) in-
variably look for happiness in the class one or
two degrees above their own. They would
consider themselves absurd if they at once set
their minds upon being dukes and princes ; they
only want to be a little bit higher, only the
smallest bit, and never for a moment look to
what they call “‘ beneath them” for happiness.
This was particularly the’case with these young
girls. Their station was not defined, yet how
different their practice! One was ambitious
of the glittering tinsel of the world—the other,
refined but not ambitious, sought her happiness