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faithful guardians perfectly idolized their young charges, giving them open preference over their own children. And the little nurslings, with dawning intelligence, learned to love their "mammies" as well, if not better, than their own mother.

As for Angelica's household arrangements, they were attended to by servants who thoroughly understood their duties, and performed them with pride and pleasure. They would have been shocked, would have thought it a degradation of herself and a rebuke to them, if their young mistress had ventured to occupy herself with domestic concerns. She gave a few languid orders every morning, and her labors for the day were over. She was fond of her children, because they were lovely and endearing: but she saw them very seldom. She loved her husband with a dependent, leaning, up-looking affection, which threw the very burden of thinking upon another, a species of attachment which is particularly gratifying to such men as Mr. Willington. But of that sweet association, that constant interchange of thought, that community of feeling in which the charm of marriage lies, Mr. Willington and his young wife knew nothing.

Mr. Willington, though he had not ceased to admire the beauty of Angelica, though he honored her as his wife, the mother of his children, the head of his household, a being that especially appertained to him; though he was proud of her, and