36 EDITH, THE YOUNG TEACHER.

CHAPTER V.
A TEMPTATION.

Acain, Edith had a fault which
you would not at first suspect, as it
is one that persons almost always
seek to hide. She was fond of fine
clothes; and though her mother, you
may be sure, did not indulge her in
this respect, yet as she was of course
much better dressed than the poor
children who came to the school, she
was proud of her nice white frock
and straw bonnet, and felt a silly
pleasure in seeing them admired. It
is true, that smce she had begun to
pray, and to watch against sin and
sinful thoughts, this fault had not
appeared so often as before; but it
was not easily rooted out; and Mrs.
Austen and aunt Mary saw it with