HOME AT THE HAVEN.

up with the usual praises of her own beauty, which
these birds are so fond of sounding.
 Is it not all delightful? said Edward to Lucy,
when they were together in their mother's room, un-
buckling straps and unlocking padlocks. Don't you
like uncle now, Lucy ? and are you not sorry you told
him in the railroad carriage that you did not like
coming to stay with him ? Don't you think, mother,
that Lucy had better tell him she is very sorry, and did
not mean to say--"
 No, Edward, I do not," said his mother; "Lucy
told the truth about her feelings, and your uncle knows
that she did not intend it as any rudeness to him, be-
cause she did not know to whom she was speaking.
He will soon think no more of it, and will like Lucy
well enough at last, I have no doubt-and all the
more for her being plain-spoken and truthful like him-
self."
 The first evening at the Haven passed very happily,
and Lucy tried not to fancy that her uncle had taken a
dislike to her, at the same time that she was really
quite glad to see what good friends he and Edward
were going to be.