10 DAISV

endeavors to ‘‘see life,’ he was fast losing the
purity of heart and mind with which he had quitted
his far-away home, and it was making its mark
upon him in a way not to be mistaken.

e sat opposite me, and | could see that
he was making a mere pretence of taking his
breakfast.

Presently, there was a_ remark from Mrs.
rummond’s end of the table. The child was
speaking—the child par excellence, for there was
not another one in the house. She Was a curi-
ous little creature—willful, disdainful, neglected by
her mother, and suspicious of all other mortals.
Petting she despised, and invariably showed symp-
toms of displeasure if disturbed in her favorite
occupation of playing with an ugly, yellow cat in
dark corners of the house. ut the strangest