PERSEVERE AND PROSPER.

kind invitation, Miss Chester,” said he,
turning to Mimmie.

The prospect of parting with Martha on
the morrow did not seem so unpleasant to
her companions, now that it was settled that
she and her papa were coming to the
hopping.

Ail the young ones, having finished tea,
set off to have a game of bowls on the
front lawn.

Frank, however, remained, to listen to a
conversation between Mr. Clavering and
Mimmie and Julia, about the necessity of
intercourse with our fellow creatures, for
keeping the mind in a healthy state, even
though the persons we associate with be
not precisely the companions we desire.
Mimmie, whose gentle goodness and charity
were as conspicuous, Frank thought, as her
rapid, clear intellect, declared that she
would rather have the society of such people
as the Gibbs and Smiths, (at that moment
laughing and talking loudly in the tea-
room,) than be deprived of it altogether.

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