10 MAY-FAIR DAY AND

as kind and simple-hearted as soul could wish, who
received her among them as if she had been an angel
from heaven; whilst the few-families there, of higher
rank and intelligence, seemed at once to open their
hearts and homes to her. |

“ How well you look, Dorothy!” said Joanna to
her, on her return: “the Peak air agrees with you.
Your eyes look brighter, and your colour clearer than
ever!”

Dorothy looked at herself in the glass, and she
thought so too. Poor Dorothy! that was the last time
she ever saw herself. The next day she felt unwell
with headache and fever ; she grew worse and worse ;
a medical man was called in, and in a day or two
pronounced her to be ill of small-pox. We shall not
go through that long and severe illness. Dorothy lay
at the point of death; and her brother and sister,
unable to resign her into the hands of her Maker,
prayed that, at any cost, her life might be spared.
Their prayeys were heard. She lived ; but not alone
at the expense of her beauty; she lost, what was far
more, her eyesight. Well, indeed, may we say, poor
Dorothy !» Life had now hard lessons for her—patience
and submission. For herself, could she have chosen,
she would rather have died than lived. She had just,
as it were,.become conscious of the worth of her
beauty and of herself; and now she was a poor, blind
ruin—a spectacle to be shunned and pitied.

“Come again to me,” wrote Leonard; “the Peak
air will do you good: the people here all love you,
and will be kinder to you than ever.”

“I will not go there, of all places in the world,”
said Dorothy, with bitterness; “I will not go there
to bea burden to him, and a spectacle to the whole