of Lewie's determination, and he knew it.
Ah! she was learning already that "A child left to himself bringeth his
mother to shame" and sorrow; and it was with the deepest mortification
that she was obliged to confess that she had suffered the golden hours
of infancy to slip by, without acquiring over her son's mind that
influence which every mother should and may possess. The opportunity,
alas! was now lost forever. Her son had neither respect for her
authority, or regard for her wishes.

XI.

Ruth Glen.

"The more I looked, I wondered more--
And while I scanned it o'er and o'er
A moment gave me to espy
A trouble in her strong black eye;
A remnant of uneasy light,
A flash of something over bright;
Not long this mystery did detain
My thoughts--she told in pensive strain
That she had borne a heavy yoke,
Been stricken by a two-fold stroke;
Ill health of body; and had pined
Beneath worse ailments of the mind."

WORDSWORTH.

It had been determined ever since poor Miss Edwards left the Wharton's,
that the girls should be sent to the city, to boarding school, and it
was without much difficulty that Mr. Wharton succeeded in obtaining Mrs.
Elwyn's consent to his sending Agnes with them, that the cousins might
continue their education together. Indeed, as I have before intimated,
Mrs. Elwyn always listened, and answered with the utmost indifference,
when any plan respecting her daughter was proposed to her. She supposed,
rightly enough, that her own means might be required for the support of
herself and Lewie, (for she intended to close her house and accompany
Lewie to Stanwick,) and as Mr. Wharton seemed anxious to take the care
of Agnes from her hands, and she knew he could well afford to do so, she
made no objection whatever to the proposed plan. In short, Mr. and Mrs.
Wharton regarded this lovely girl, thus cast off and neglected by her
only natural protector, as their own, and cherished her accordingly.

Mrs. Wharton's health, which had delayed, for some months, the departure
of the girls for the city, now seemed fully re-established; Emily, also,
seemed better than she had done for years, and it was with light hearts,
and many pleasant anticipations, that the three cousins, under the care
of Mr. Wharton, started, for the first time, for school. At about the
same time, Lewie, accompanied by his mother, went to Stanwick, and
began his school life under the care of Dr.