PERSEVERE AND PROSPER.

this morning, where he was busy giving
Frank a Greek lesson.

“Papa! papa!” exclaimed Charlie, burst-_
ing into the room, “ Fanny and Arthur are
to stay till after hopping!” This news was
received by both the busy people with great
pleasure. Mr. D’Eyncourt even told Charlie
he might have a holiday that afternoon, to
go and play with his friends; to which
Charlie raised no objection.

However, there is no pleasant day that
has not some unpleasantness in it. Just at
tea-time, when all the D’Eyncourts were
come to take tea at the Court, some dull
and almost disagreeable people, whom all
the children disliked, came to see the
Chesters. Of course they were asked to tea.
There were four or five of them, and Mrs.
Chester and Sophy thought it would be
unpleasant for so many persons to take tea
in one room, so they had a table set out,
with a white cloth and a regular tea appa-
ratus, in a corner of the Church Lawn.

This was for the young people.
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