ls were seated, quietly eating their supper.

Did they enjoy their feast? A little, perhaps, but the upsetting of the
table could not be forgotten. It chilled their spirits, and checked the
flow of their joy. Thus, as always, did the evil conduct of one
wrong-doer, act, like a cloud in the path of the sun, on the joy of
others.

Carrie Sherwood left early in the evening, and Jessie went to her chamber
with Emily to assist her in packing her trunk, so that she might be ready
for an early start in the morning. When the last stray article was nicely
packed, Emily threw herself back in the big arm-chair, and with a
long-drawn sigh, exclaimed:

"Oh dear!"

"What's the matter?" inquired Jessie.

"Oh! nothing. Only I'm glad I'm going home."

"So am I," was the _thought_ that leaped to Jessie's lips. She was,
however, too polite to utter it, and too sincere to say she was sorry, so
she sat still and said nothing.

Several minutes were passed in silence, a very unusual thing, I believe,
where the company is composed of young ladies. But Jessie did not know
what to say, and Emily was thinking, and did not wish to say any thing. At
last she looked up and said:

"Jessie, I'm afraid I haven't behaved well since I came to Glen Morris."

Jessie again thought with Emily, and again her politeness and sincerity
kept her silent. Emily went on.

"You have been very kind to me and Charlie. I'm sorry we haven't made
ourselves more agreeable to you."

"Oh! never mind that," said Jessie. "I hope you will come and see me
again, one of these days."

Emily then went on to tell Jessie about her thoughts and feelings. She had
not forgotten the advice of Uncle Morris, nor had Jessie's example been
without its influence over her. True, her old habits of self-will and
falsehood, had acted the part of tyrants over her. Yet she had been
secretly wishing to be like Jessie. These wishes, frail as they had proved
themselves to be, showed that good seed from Jessie's example had been
sown in her heart. Now that she was about to return home, all her better
feelings were awake, and she begged forgiveness of her cousin, promising
to do her best, hereafter, to be a good, truthful, affectionate girl.

All this and much more, she said to Jessie, before they slept that night.
These confessions and purposes did Emily good. They also cheered Jessie,
by causing her to hope that after all, she might be to her cousin, what
Guy had been to Richard Duncan