l in thinking of it; so she
was prepared to put him down by calm reasons. She proceeded to do so,
gently, but firmly.

Lo and behold! what does he do, but meets her with just as many reasons,
and just as calm ones: and urges them gently, but firmly.

Heaven had been very kind to them: why should they be unkind to
themselves? They had had a great escape: why not accept the happiness,
as, being persons of honor, they had accepted the misery? with many
other arguments, differing in other things, but agreeing in this, that
they were all sober, grave, and full of common-sense.

Finding him not defenceless on the score of reason, she shifted her
ground and appealed to his delicacy. On this he appealed to her
love, and then calm reason was jostled off the field, and passion and
sentiment battled in her place.

In these contests day by day renewed, Camille had many advantages.

Rose, though she did not like him, had now declared on his side. She
refused to show him the least attention. This threw him on Josephine:
and when Josephine begged her to help reduce Camille to reason, her
answer would be,--

"Hypocrite!" with a kiss: or else she would say, with a half comic
petulance, "No! no! I am on his side. Give him his own way, or he will
make us all four miserable."

Thus Josephine's ally went over to the enemy.

And then this coy young lady's very power of resistance began to give
way. She had now battled for months against her own heart: first for her
mother; then, in a far more terrible conflict for Raynal, for honor and
purity; and of late she had been battling, still against her own heart,
for delicacy, for etiquette, things very dear to her, but not so great,
holy, and sustaining as honor and charity that were her very household
gods: and so, just when the motives of resistance were lowered, the
length of the resistance began to wear her out.

For nothing is so hard to her sex as a long steady struggle. In matters
physical, this is the thing the muscles of the fair cannot stand; in
matters intellectual and moral, the long strain it is that beats them
dead.

Do not look for a Bacona, a Newtona, a Handella, a Victoria Huga.

Some American ladies tell us education has stopped the growth of these.

No! mesdames. These are not in nature.

They can bubble letters in ten minutes that you could no more deliver
to order in ten days than a river can play like a fountain. They can
sparkle gems of stories: they can flas