ARTHUR REFLECTS ON HIMSELF.

that Fanny was angry with him for saying
he did not believe what she said; and he
was sorry for that. That was not the way
to help her to persevere in trying to cure
that, or any other fault. He ought not to
speak of it to any one, except to her, and
then never to taunt her with it.

He felt sure that he should have no heart
to persevere in any good resolution, if every
body were to laugh at the first slips he
made. Fanny never laughed at his want
of observation and slowness before other
people.

Arthur reproached himself very much for
saying an unkind thing about the very
fault that Fanny was now trying to cure
herself of. He wondered how he could have
done it. Ah! he saw, now, that this un-
kindness or unfairness came from his own
fault,—-want of attention—want of percep-
tion. He had not attended to Fanny’s
feelings; he did not think, till now, after
the time was over, that any allusion to her
habit of misrepresentation from him, was

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