"Display." Elizabeth looked over her shoulder, "My
dear, I thought you had read that book six months ago."

"O yes, ma'am; but I can read it over and over again: there is not a new
book now in the school."

"You mean," said Elizabeth, smiling, "that you have read them all. But
can you explain the word "Display?" for I think most young ladies are
partial to it, in one shape or another." A carriage now stopped at the
door; and Elizabeth exclaimed, "who is in that carriage?" Miss Grey, who
was near the window, raised herself upon a box, and looking over the
blind, cried, "Mrs. Adair, ma'am, and Miss Isabella Vincent."

Elizabeth hastened from the room, and met her mother at the hall door,
joyfully exclaiming, "O, my dear mother, this is an unexpected, welcome
pleasure! But how is Mrs. Vincent?"

"Composed and comfortable; the operation was performed yesterday: but it
was not my intention to desert you: how could you think so?"

The truth was, Mrs. Adair had called upon the physician, and begged that
he would inform her daughter that she would return in the evening: but
a press of engagements had prevented his visit to Jane, who now with joy
beheld her mother enter her chamber.

"I thought you would return to see me on my journey," she exclaimed;
"and you are returned, my dear mother. Blessed be this hour!"

Miss Arden and Miss Damer, from the hour they met in the summer-house,
were strict friends. Their capacities were similar, and they were at the
head of the different classes. On the days appointed for geography, the
young ladies were in a room called the study. Miss Arden had observed
that one of the servants, a respectable looking young woman, generally
contrived to enter the apartment, and busy herself with one thing or
another: but always looked, anxiously at the globes, or the maps, and
stopped a moment to listen, either to the teacher or the pupils. Miss
Arden noticed the circumstance to her friend; "I will certainly ask
Catherine," she said, "if she has any motive in attending to our
pursuits; there is something in her countenance that excites my
curiosity."

The first time she met her alone, she made the inquiry.

"I have, indeed, ma'am, a motive," said Catherine; "I would give all my
wages, could I but learn as you do."

"But of what use, Catherine, would learning be to you? You can read your
Bible; and it will shew you all that is necessary for you to know. Your
duty as a servant, and the way to heav