ness, hoping that in time our prejudices
would all die away, and had it:not been
for Jane they would have done:so.
“The “first one who ‘showed any
symptoms of going over to <qur new
mother, was my little sister Aliee,-who,
to my great surprise, I one “day found
sitting on her lap, with her Jittle arm
thrown around ‘her -meck, ‘listening
eagerly to a story; but she jumped
down so quitkly »when «she ‘saw me,
and with such a frightened air, that I
knew my-step-mother must. understand
the influence I exerted over the,minds
of my little brother and sister. She
never tried to buy.our .love with scan-