THE SILVER LAKE STORIES. 13

that aunts are. I see that some one
has been putting wrong notions into
your heads. Let me tell_you that I have
heard the young lady whom your father
is to marry, spoken of by all who know
her as being exceedingly lovely and
amiable, and I “do hope that you will
both receive her kindly, and treat her
affectionately. I dare say she feels
very diffident at the thought of enter-
ing a family of entire strangers, and
I shall be much disappointed in my lit-
tle girls, if they do not give her a kind
and cordial greeting. All this recalls
to me my own early days, and though
it is with shame and grief that I review