04 “din SiLviR ‘LAKE ‘STORTEs.
father’s absence. I know that it caused
her many sad hours, for often when we
came upon her unexpectedly, we found
her in tears.

“My father had prougt her from a
large and lovely family, where she was
the youngest and the darling ; and she
had come to us with her heart yearn-
ing for affection and love, and had been
repulsed by us all, and treated with
4nsolence even by the servants, to
“whom she was uniformly gentle ‘and
kind; and yet, as I afterwards discdv-
ered, she never mentioned one word of
this to my father, but endured it all
‘with the utmost patience and gentle-