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know, people who are clever in music are usually stupid
at everything else."
 "Thank you," said Lydia, who knew she was the
best player in the school.
 Oh, oh, who's conceited now ?" said Julia, while
 Lydia repented her readiness in taking the hint.
 "( I have heard that people clever in arithmetic are
 dolts at everything else," said Susan, who knew Julia
 prided herself on being able to work any sum proposed
 to her; but Julia would not take.
 For my part, I like Miss Wilmot," said Emily.
 Then why don't you give her less trouble ?" en-
quired Susan; "you are always vexing her by dawd-
ling."
 Oh, it's too much bother."
 At this moment Miss Wilmot opened the door.
 Talking yet," she said; why it is nearly ten; you
 must go to sleep."
 Silence followed, for Mrs. Palmer always looked
into the rooms when she went to bed, and she was
never late on Sunday nights.
 And as they composed -themselves to sleep, did it
never cross the girls' minds that they might never
waken again? Nay, rather, did not one thought of
loving gratitude and restful confidence go up to the
Great Father, who had watched over and preserved
them all that day, and all their lives? Emily certainly
repeated to herself Bishop Ken's Evening Hymn, but
that was only because she had always said it with her
sister Ruth, the last thing at night ever since she could
remember, and she looked upon it as a sort of talis-
man to keep off the perils of the night. Only from
Lydia's heart did there rise a heartfelt prayer, and it
was only like the faint cry of a little child for help.
Bat God never passes by such prayers unheeded;