EYE-SERVICE ; OR,
 "Man looks on the outward appearance, but God
 looks on the heart," and they felt happy they were
 only suffering for conscience sake, and had they not
 taken up the cross ?
 Mademoiselle was grieved. She longed to explain
 to Mrs. Palmer how the case stood, but she had pro-
 mised, and could only console herself by telling Miss
 Wilmot, who was much pleased as well as a good deal
 surprised.
 As a rule girls are shy about talking of their reli-
 gious feelings, and it is perhaps as well. Indiscrimi-
 nate talk on serious subjects weakens action, and so it
 was that Miss Wilmot, though she had noticed an im-
 provement in the conduct of the two girls, had not
 guessed whence it proceeded.
 Julia went home early, and later in the same day
Miss Wilmot was in the bed-room with Susan, Emily,
and Lydia, helping them to pack.
 "And so you are not going home, Miss Wilmot ?"
 "Not at present, Susan, but I shall do very well."
 "How long shall you stay ?" asked Lydia.
 "That depends," said Miss Wilmot, and she
looked very grave.
 Then is it true that poor Mr. Palmer cannot last
very long ?" said Susan.
 "I am afraid so."
 "Does he know he is dying ?" asked Emily.
 "I think so; at first he believed he should get
better; but I think he knows now that he cannot; but
he is quite happy," said Miss Wilmot.
 "It seems so strange," said Susan, "'I mean
strange that he can be happy, and yet going to die so
soon; life is so very bright."
 "I don't think being prepared to die makes it any
the less bright, Susan."