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spoiled darling complained to sister Mabel that Eva
was not ‘as nice as her hair and eyes.’

Then a blunt little maid of eleven, entitled Robina,
found out that Cousin Eva was a tiny bit selfish—
as was plain one day when she would make mother
drive to town though she was so tired !

But the boys clung to their idol still, and main-
tained that beautiful Eva was as fair and sweet as
her name, and that the girls were jealous and fault-
finding.

, Alas! they were only too keen-sighted, for Eva
Vere was selfish, self-willed, and self-loving.

Brought up at school, without relaticns, richer
and fairer than all the other girls, she had been made
a sort of queen among them, without exciting or re-
quiring love. .She could well do without it; she
thought health, money, and beauty, were enough for
her. She pitied her eldest cousin Grace, that she had
three little sisters to teach and look after, instead of
thinking only of the féte or the dance of the next
day. Eva went to all the gaieties of the neighbour-
hood. Kind Mrs. Farington took her everywhere;
but Grace, Mabel, and Adela, had to take it in turns
to accompany her.