xtremely lovely; but it was a beauty, one can hardly
describe, since it arose not from regularity of feature. Suffice it to
say, she found Mrs. Sherman alone, who received her, not only kindly,
but with a degree of feeling and respect, that is rarely accorded
those, whom adversity has depressed. She apologized for not having
sent the work, and said, that indisposition, alone, induced her to
trouble Helen to call for the directions as to making the shirts,
about which the doctor was very particular. While pointing out how
they were to be done, a little girl, about eleven, burst into the
room, and threw herself on the sofa. On her mother desiring her to
leave, she cried out in a wayward tone, "No, I shan't, I want to stay
here, because I like it, and I will, too; papa would let me if he was
at home, and if you turn me out, I'll tell him, so I will."

"Susan, my child, you must, indeed you must leave me, I want to speak
to Miss Willoughby alone."

"Oh, yes, I know you do; you don't want me to hear you tell her how to
make papa's shirts."

"Fie! my dear, how can you act thus perversely," said Mrs. Sherman, as
she forcibly led her to the door, which had no sooner closed on the
petulant child, than she apologized, with much feeling, and seemed
greatly mortified at this _contre temps_ of her little girl. "In fact,
my dear Miss Willoughby," she said, "she is, with several others,
running almost wild, for want of a good school in the place."

"Oh, madam!" cried Helen, in almost breathless haste, "do you say a
school is wanted here? oh, tell me, would they think me too young, if
I were deemed capable, which I feel I am; for my beloved mother spared
no pains in grounding me thoroughly in the essential points, and, for
accomplishments, I have had the best masters."

"Indeed!" said Mrs. Sherman, "could you undertake to impart the
rudiments of music?"

"I am sure I could," said Helen, blushing as she spoke, at the idea of
having, thus, to praise herself, "for when I left off learning, I
could play anything off at sight."

"If that be the case, I can easily get you a few pupils to commence
with, but how will you manage for a room?"

"Oh," replied the enthusiastic girl, cheered by these opening
prospects, "there is a room at the back of our parlour, which, being
so large, I did not care to furnish, it would make an admirable school
room."

"It is, indeed, a lucky thought, my dear Miss Willoughby, and may be,
not only of ben