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those pretty painted books which Mr. Stokes
calls ‘ vanities.” There isa queer, quirky, little
old gentleman who visits here, who said that
Helen owed her great success in society to her
*tact.”. Oh! Edward, she owes her sorrow to
her ambition. Would you believe it possible
that she, the beauty of Abbeyweld, who for so
long a time seemed to us satisfied with that dis-
tinction, is not satisfied now. Why, there is
not such an establishment, no, not at Mrs. How-
ard’s, as that which she commands. Oh! Ed-
ward, to have once loved Helen, is to be inter-
ested for her always; there is something great
in her very faults; there is nothing poor or low
about her. That little cranky old gentleman
said the other evening while looking at her,
‘Miss Rose, a woman, to be happy, should
either have no ambition, or an ambition beyond
this world.” Do ask Dr. Stokes if that is true.”

CHAPTER VI.

After she had been a little longer in town,
Rose saw more clearly the workings of that
ambition which had undermined her cousin’s
happiness. She saw where the canker ate and
withered, but she did not know how it could be