60 GLENOWEN, OR THE

degree, into this juvenile propensity ;
for she had already, in imagination,
conducted the young pupil, by no very
gradual advances, to a rich benefice
(having concluded he must be a clergy-
man), and would probably, in a few
minutes, have elevated him to the see
of Canterbury ; had not Rosa at that
moment entered, glowing with ruddy
health, the pure blood dancing in her
veins, and her eyes sparkling with de-
light, while she exhibited, with a look
of self-complacency, a part of a worst-
ed stocking which she had been knit-
ting for Jessy Stephenson, and had now
brought with her from school. Mrs.
Haywood had commended it :—it was
indeed very well executed ; and_per-
haps no high-bred belle ever displayed
a costly ornament, or a new  birth-

night